Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1018594-20150212111605/@comment-1930928-20150215205743

Linkmadara wrote: Genosyber wrote: This episode was messed up on a few levels. I will primarily be speaking about Neji as I am a Hyuga fan. So expect there to be some bias!

1. I don't believe it Hyuga/Byakugan have been nerfed yet again. Shocker! So let me get this straight, Ao a ninja with 1 Byakugan can see through the illusion placed on the Forth Mizukage( a Jinchūriki no less), but Neji a genius of the Hyuga clan can't see through a catus plant genjutsu? WTF

EDIT:: One more thing. Does anyone here think that Yome (w/ Byakugan like abilites) fight display is probably the best example of what a Byukugan fight should look like?

the genjutsu was not a visual one it was one created by scent so Neji cant see it ,Sasuke and Itachi had to use a genjutsu on them self to be able to counter Tayuya's sound based genjutsu.

Yome eye evasion ability is more similar to the Sharingan prediction of movement than the Byakugan having 360 vision.

It doesn't matter how you get caught by the genjutsu(i.e sound, visual etc). Once Neji was caught he should have been able to tell by using his byakugan. Instead he realised that he could see no other team and that he must be in a genjutsu.

Yome's eye ability doesn't predict movement, so I don't see how it has any similarity to the Sharingan.