Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-28861328-20140514062714/@comment-3568954-20140516164940

The Winter King wrote: Actionmanrandell wrote: The Winter King wrote: Now thats called translational differences

But successors doesn't make much sense there, calling them reincarnations is more like it,

"Successors of previous generation" means reincarnations, the word successor doesn't seem to fit there

See here, http://www.mangabee.com/Naruto/671.5/3/

That implies sasuke is indra's successor and not his reincarnation, which is obviously incorrect

The japanese version also says the same thing, he says once before he couldn't do anything, that means he regrets overlooking indra and doesn't want to make them same mistake with sasuke

also Naruto is based around various eastern religions such as shinto and Buddhism

Buddhists believe in reincarnation, although not in the sense of an irreducible self passing from body to body. They describe it as a dying candle lighting a new one in other words Indra and Ashura themselves are not being reborn over and over again in new bodies. but what is happening is their chakra is being reborn over and over then attaching itself to a new person and then lighting said persons inner flame(Chakra) so based on the very buddhist definition of reincarnation then yes successor is the correct term its like when the dalai lama chooses his successor(someone who will inherit his essence) the dalai lama doesn't believe that he himself is actually being reborn just his essence and will power its the same thing with hashirama and his will of fire

Hold your horses my friend, i am perfectly familiar with the word -Reincarnation,

What my question is- If we go by the translation of Mangabee then sasuke is indra's successor, is that it?

Then that also means that the previous successors were hashirama and madara, correct?

Then how does madara end up with a normal rinnegan while sasuke gets the ten tails variant?

Yes Sasuke is the successor and madara and hashirama were the last Successors and like i said the buddhist do not believe that a person can be reborn they only believe a persons inner flame can spark a new flame in a new person so what that means is even though they are all successors of Indra and ashura they are unique. they have a connection but things can change for instance. sasuke was given power by hagoromo and so was Naruto Sasuke has a different Rinnegan because Sasuke's EMS is different than Madara's Because sasukes EMS is the combination of his own original Mangekyou sharingan and Itachi's creating a Unique EMS because of that when it evolved into the Rinnegan it has a different appearance plus beside Sasuke doesn't have just Indra's chakra clinging to him. he has his own chakra that he inherited from both his mother and father chakra is influenced by two separate energies Spiritual energy and physical energy so doing anything differently( like physically training different than Madara or meditating differently then him) would have caused Sasukes chakra to change differently

its easy to come to the assumption that each successor has unique chakra even between each other because Kurama noted that Sasukes chakra was even more ominous then Madara's Indicating that Sasuke's chakra is in fact darker than Madara's now of course Madara stole hashirama's power and as such it is currently probabily more ominous then sasukes but none the less sasuke has the potential to surpass Madara