Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-33308438-20180614101055/@comment-30207214-20180626121948

It actually does not really exist, as it is an unnamed jutsu that wasn't even mentioned in the databooks. The wiki created a page of it to have a precise list of all kind of jutsus and as I stated, it was clearly stated that there are just 2 ways to cast a genjutsu. 1 doing the said hand signs and 2 having a special medium like the Sharingan. That was undisputedly stated in the third databook on page 301. The only way to explain this jutsu is that he most likely did the hand signs off screen before the battle began.
 * "Um yea it does exist....it's in this same wiki, try checking up on it. Or to jog your memory, he used it against Naruto before transferring shisui's mangekyou over to him ;_;...i dont see how this is relevant to crow clones, it's a genjutsu and it utilizes Mirage CROWS."

I used mangareader, but thanks. I am going for kissmanga from now on then.
 * "Try Kissmanga or Mangareader.net"

It was stated that his sensory squad couldn't sense Itachi and there are just 2 ways of not being able to get sensed by a sensory. You could hide your chakra like Zetsu or just move outside of their range and we never saw Itachi hiding his chakra, therefor did he most likely cast the genjutsu outside of their range and controlling multiple people at multiple locations would mean that he can do that from afar.
 * "Anyways the one you sent before was referring to the genjutsu range and says it was impossible to control someone from such a distance, precisely.....now to what you were saying, wide-scale control as in multiple persons in multiple locations."

That is pretty hypothetical and finding someone with a talent for sensory stuff... Just Itachi knew about Sasuke being talented in sensory and nobody else found that kind of talent in Sasuke. Orochimaru, Kakashi nobody found that out and let us not forget, that Ao's squad could have been simply ordered by the Mitsukage for Ao. It was nowhere stated, that he could have chosen his very own squad.
 * "Also if it's Ao's personal sensory squad he must've picked them for a reason, with him being a great sensor he must have a good eye for persons who posses such talent, like Obito recruiting akatsuki members..talented ones."

We just saw one Itachi fighting and that was the one with the blurred vision and you aren't comparing Kirin Sasuke with Minato do you? There are worlds between them.
 * "Now you're adding the Itachi who can barely see to go up against Minato? he wasn't blind the whole time yah know ;_; even with blurred vision he was still able to cast genjutsu on sasuke '-'"

The 3 tomoe Sharingan wasn't powerful enough? It was just stated that the MS grants some unique abilities and nowhere was it stated that it boosts the perception of the 3 tomoe Sharingan or the visual genjutsu capabilities. It just grants remarkable abilities and no stat boost and if it does please post a panel or page of a databook that states this and as you stated, Itachi and Shisui together couldn't catch a Byakugan user, who wasn't trained by a Hyuga into a genjutsu. Shisui had to use his Kotoamatsukami which doesn't need eye contact.
 * "And Itachi tried to cast genjutsu on a byakugan user but he failed that's because at that time he had possessed the 3 tomoe sharingan which wasn't powerful enough. Shisui later activated his mangekyou and completed the task, so only Mangekyou and above can perform such a feat'-'/"

I never stated that, I just stated that Kabuto had the capabilities to save Orochimaru from Itachi and that the scenario of the anime was a pretty realistic one (narutoverse wise).
 * "Well you're overestimating Kabuto by proving he's a match for Itachi."

He ran away because he in the first place dislikes fighting and was in a hospital... in Konoha. A fight would have been pretty loud and would have had others to join the fight, something Kabuto didn't want. He wanted to avoid attention as much as possible.
 * "He was compared to Kakasi indeed but he ran away from Kakashi in a fight, which shows that he's not even on Kakashi's level"

Itachi never showed the capability to control someone for a longer time. That's what made Shisui's Kotoamatsukami so strong, it was able to control and manipulate a person for their entire life. Itachi wouldn't have been able to control Orochimaru as he was still able to somehow move and resist his genjutsu a bit. Let us not forget that Itachi was new in the Akatsuki and spying on them for Konoha. His first objective was it to demonstrate and earn a high degree of trustability to be collect as much valuable intel as possibel. Him letting Orochimaru go would have looked like him letting a spy for Konoha or a possible danger for the organisation flee. Let us not forget, that this probably even damaged the reputation of Akatsuki who were still doing other kind of activities. Itachi could have done just two things and 1 being to kill him and state that he was attacking him, which would have still been a bit suspicious or 2 actually take him to Pain or Obito and tell him about his betrayal by attacking an Akatsuki member.
 * "Include the plot armour statement here as well, and what makes you think Itachi would've handed him over to Pein or Obito? he has so many ways to use him, could've controlled him to abandon the Akatsuki and use him then as he see fit."