Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-32900772-20170904113855/@comment-734582-20170904154152

Lorenzo.r.2nd wrote: not really. that same thing might've happened to freaking zabuza. do u think that kishi knew how to kill him from the get go? That depends, we know for instance that Kishimoto had planned to end the series with VOTEII since pretty much VOTEI.

Still, the original point was that Kaguya was Kishimoto's answer to the problem of killing Madara, and this interview backs up that he was still thinking of how to actually kill madara since before he became TTJ. So the idea, even though i doubt it was the sole reason, still stands.