Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-29393962-20161111215453/@comment-25122992-20170116121704

Actually, Asura was stated to receive some power from Hagoromo even in the manga. Anime just clarified what kind of power it was (TSBs particularly), but it didn't add anything new here. However, TSBs were kinda easy to recognise in Asura's battle avatar even without anime.