Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-46702312-20200902014722/@comment-46854995-20200911033001

BrainBrand wrote: 26nagato wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by direct counter, but if you're talking about ending the jutsu, it's not the only prerequisite. You need the chakra of all nine Bijuu + Rinnegan to do that. And I don't think that it being one of the prerequisite invalidates the implication that the Rinnegan is immune to lower level Sharingan-derived genjutsus either.

Just, because the Rinnegan could counter Infinite Tsukuyomi, through doesn't mean it can counter all genjutsus:

1. Sasuke's Rinnegan is different from other rinnegan's in that it has several tomoe.

2. It was Sasuke's rinnegan powering up Susanoo, that stopped Infinite Tsukuyomi (IT).

3. Being immune to IT doesn't mean being immune to every other ocular genjutsu. Edo Tensei were immune to IT, but weren't immune Kotoamatsukami.

I take all your points. But Black Zetsu specifically pointed to his Rinnegan as to why he wasn’t affected. The Susano’o could be summed up as a shield for the others, though that’s speculation.

But I think you’re missing my point. All I am saying is that there is reasonable evidence for someone to conclude that the Rinnegan is immune to Sharingan-derived genjutsu. The points you bring up aren’t evidence against that implication. There are certainly counterpoints anyone can bring up that could question that conclusion since we don’t have anything in verbatim. But as I said, in the end this is all speculation.

BloodOfTheArchon wrote: Ok so to be fair Koto-Amatsuki was never shown being used on a living Rinnegan user so that's not a usable example there.

That’s true but I think I understand his point, which is that the Edo-tensei were immune to infinite Tsukuyomi but not to Kotoamatsukami, so why can’t that be the case with the Rinnegan? Which is fine, but I don’t think that shows evidence contrary to the implication.