Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-45444155-20200728155230/@comment-3279282-20200801020224

Oh, sorry, you're right. Of course you can replace "Yeah but chapter X said Y" with "Yeah but databook X said Y" whenever you want, that works too!

You know, I imagine those who discuss these things as people who sit in front of their PCs, looking up and beating random manga/anime/databook statements around each other's heads, thinking only your words are correct "because the manga/anime/databook says so", when in reality, no source of information is completely correct. Because - again - the basis for all of this, i.e. the manga, just sucks that much.

So any discussion on topics that can't be answered by reading the manga are inherently pointless. There will always, on any topic (YYR, sage stuff, Otsutsuki, Uchiha, anything), come a time where there are at least two conflicting statements made by Kishimoto. Just take Jugo and the Juin for example: Kishimoto explains in the manga that Orochimaru developed the Juin from Jugo's body, but the databook states that Jugo has the Juin. What happens is, person A says "The manga states that Jugo doesn't have the Juin" and person B replies "Yeah but the databook says that Jugo has the Juin" and then person A goes "yeah but the databook isn't written by Kishimoto so it's not canon" and person B replies "no, the databooks are canon because they are supplementary material" and this goes on and on and on.

This is why all deeper theories and discussions on this manga are inherently pointless. There will without fail come a time where Kishimoto wrote contradicting bullshit somewhere. And then it's just a matter of opinions.