Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-45444155-20200621203703/@comment-31715856-20200710020901

What exactly is in question here? (I skimmed, this thread is huge) As Squinty said, the TSBs do not by default defuse the effects of all Ninjutsu, since Hiruzen came back while Minato did not. It's when Yin-Yang Style is added that the added anti-magic effect is there.

ReweR 1331 wrote:

That's what Tobirama said. The ball has nothing like the Dust Release.

Yes it does. If you look at Obito fighting Hiruzen, Hiruzen notes that TSBs by default (i.e. before adding Yin-Yang) blow apart the molecules of anything they touch. He directly compares it to Dust Release, as a better version of it. But this de-molecular effect is not the same affect as Tobirama talks about later. One acts on the physical level (blows apart the molecules making up the object), the other is basically the Naruto equivalent of anti-magic (causes the effects of the Ninjutsu to fail by breaking apart it's basic magical components).

Also note that the Dust Release type effect did not just happen on Ninjutsu. Hiruzen used the Shuriken Shadow Clone jutsu, and the default TSBs still erased the original, real shuriken he threw at Obito too.