Talk:Clone Technique

Jutsu Type
This jutsu is currently classified as a ninjutsu, but If its an illusion then its a Genjutsu. 74.236.92.133 (talk) 23:22, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
 * It's not an illusion, it just creates a kind of hologram, if you will. --ShounenSuki (talk 23:34, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Remember how naruto stinks at genjutsu, but is awsome at ninjutsu? well he stinks at this. 74.236.92.133 (talk) 23:35, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Naruto stank at everything in the beginning. This techniques creates an actual image, not a mere illusion inside one's head. The only reason it's considered an illusion is because it doesn't have any actual substance. It cannot manipulate its environment. --ShounenSuki (talk 23:58, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
 * ie: Bending light; You basically have three categories; Bending the mind, bending light, or bending matter. Bending the mind means to make someone think something is there (Genjutsu). Bending light means to create a illusion where it looks like something is there even though it doesn't have physical form (Clone jutsu; ie: illusion). Bending matter means to create something that has actual physical substance and can thus manipulate the environment around it. Clone jutsu is just bending light, Shadow Clone, Water Clone, and so on are Bending matter. The easy way to distinguish is by who can see it. If it's possible for one person to see it, and others to not see it (ie: it's within a persons mind) then it's Genjutsu. But if it's an illusion everyone can see, and getting rid of it gets rid of the illusion itself rather than getting rid of it's effects on people then it's not Genjutsu. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Jun 15, 2009 @ 03:09 (UTC)
 * And in the most basic condensed version of both of thise comments, which was used in the anime (I think): Clone Technique makes illusionary clones that don't manipulate the environment, such as grass won't move if a clone runs on it, but it the environment will react to solid shadow clone.--TheUltimate3 (talk) 03:19, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

New image
I think we need a new image as the current one shows an unsuccesful clone jutsu. --Hardly worth the effort. 12:56, June 24, 2010 (UTC)

Just an illusion?
Naruto routinely uses his clones to produce physical effects. As recently as the finale of the fight with Tendo Pain he used his clones as physical backup to resist the Almighty Push, and to throw himself through the air for the final Rasengan. -- Boradis (talk) 15:01, September 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * Naruto used shadow clones, which are physical, the clones created by this technique are not.--Deva 27 (talk) 15:17, September 21, 2010 (UTC)

Ah. Thanks. -- Boradis (talk) 15:42, September 21, 2010 (UTC)