Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25122992-20170428150337/@comment-734582-20170520140243

I'd forgotten about this thread. Starscream1998 wrote: Nothing would change here, it just means the user of edo tensei is a reanimation him/herself. If the edo tensei user was still bound by another edo tensei user then it's just the case of a puppet master controlling a puppet who controls their own puppet...it ironically resembles the ridiculous final villain BS in the final arcs. If the puppet controls a puppet, does that mean that the original user just controls both? Seems that way to me.

CyberianGinseng wrote: The power of the Edo can be upgraded with Hashirama's cells Sorry for the late reply. But this would work against Kabuto's wishes. We saw that while Hashi cells could increase their power, it would also decrease Kabuto's grip. IE Orochimaru summoned Hashirama with his power, but couldn't control him at all. Even Tobirama was already at risk of breaking free. In Kabuto's case, his grip tightened when he absorbed Anko's curse seal, but increasing the power of his subordinates would only loosen that grip again.

Furthermore, he would have to personally control each and every Edo to maintain this tight grip, even though the entire point of having lose binding and non-suppressed personalities was that he could give them minimal instructions while focusing on the big picture.