Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-34700383-20180829185752/@comment-9782468-20180924223554

CombatIQmatters wrote: @LegionZero

I know that you keep saying that because you believe that naruto's lack of pigmentation are the proof of SPSM. But that is the thing in question. You are citing hokage naruto's lack of a tomoe+coffin seal, using the pigmentation metric, as evidence that you need sizeable quantities of each of the 9 bijuu for the cloak design. But we can see that hagoromo has that same coffin seal on his forehead as well as the appropriate tomoe when he was a user of six paths senjutsu. So if hokage naruto is using six paths senjutsu, then where are the other markers? SPSM and that fancy cloak are two separate things.

SPSM is cross-slits with no pigmentation. The page for SPSM uses an image of Naruto without a chakra cloak to display one of the feats of SPSM. The caption is used to state that SPSM (the very topic of the page) is a power greater than that of Kurama mode.

Chakra from the 9 Bijuu powering his cloak is what causes the coffin seal and 9 tomoe. It's also probably why it's the only mode which gives him the cloak that leaves his skin normal looking.

You do not need the power from the 9 Bijuu to use SPSM, as shown by the lack of pigmentation in Naruto's eyes following the war and when he first showed his new mode. Naruto's new cloak lacks the coffin seal and 9 tomoe because it's just his Kurama cloak, not a cloak with power from the 9 Bijuu. His eyes lack pigmentation because it's not regular Sage Mode he's using, it's SPSM.