Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-28323245-20170127032812/@comment-1872728-20170210101311

Lux17 wrote: I think that you can skip the second and third tomoe, but you need to at least have awakened the first one. I agree. I don't think the intensity of the trauma affects the awakening, rather it's the amount of trauma that matters. So no matter how traumatic it is, if it's your first traumatic experience, you'll only awaken the Sharingan, and not until you experience a second traumatic experience do you awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan.