<div class="quote"><i> <p>Seelentau wrote: </p> <div class="quote"> <p>ReweR 1331 wrote: I don't quite understand how Yin Release can only consist of spiritual energy... the same with Yang Release. </p> </i></div>
<p>It's not entirely consisting of spiritual energy. There's just very little physical energy in Yin Release. And vice versa for Yang Release. </p> </div> <p>Doesn't that contradict the concept of "Chakra"? As far as I remember, "Naruto Hiden: Rin no Sho" clearly states the equality of energies / ratio, for example 1 to 1... </p>

<p>Yes, it does, but since when does anything ever make sense in <i>Naruto</i>? :D </p><p>I guess you could circumvent it by saying "Normal chakra has a 50/50 ration, special chakra (YinR, YangR) doesn't". </p>

<div class="quote"><i> <p>Seelentau wrote: Yes, it does, but since when does anything ever make sense in <i>Naruto</i>? :D </p><p>I guess you could circumvent it by saying "Normal chakra has a 50/50 ration, special chakra (YinR, YangR) doesn't". </p> </i></div>
<p>Yeah, it's true. </p><p>But still, from your conclusion / assumption, it turns out that any mediocre shinobi who can't balance (50:50) energy is a Yin Release or Yang Release user. </p>

I think there's still a difference between not being able to balance chakra and purposefully using a ratio other than 50/50. But that's going into speculation anyway.

<div class="quote"><i> <p>ReweR 1331 wrote: Yeah, it's true. </p><p>But still, from your conclusion / assumption, it turns out that any mediocre shinobi who can't balance (50:50) energy is a Yin Release or Yang Release user. </p> </i></div>
<p>I don't think it was ever stated anywhere that balancing the two energies is hard. According to Ebisu, the real hard part is creating just the right amount of chakra you need and then converting it into a technique, since any extra chakra is "wasted" (which doesn't really make sense either, honestly). </p><p>Another oddity is that Shikamaru treats Yin Release chakra like it's special and only used for rare techniques like his, but apparently it's part of every common genjutsu. This is probably just an example of Kishimoto not thinking things out in advance though, since he didn't actually mention the term "Yin Release" until years after the Tayuya fight. </p>

<p>By the way, the article about Yin-Yang from Naruto Hiden: Jin no Sho says that Release Yin-Yang is spiritual and physical energy. </p><p>↓ Mental and physical energy. That is Shadow and Light Style. </p>

<div class="quote"><i> <p>BeyondRed wrote: I don't think it was ever stated anywhere that balancing the two energies is hard. According to Ebisu, the real hard part is creating just the right amount of chakra you need and then converting it into a technique, since any extra chakra is "wasted" (which doesn't really make sense either, honestly). </p> </i></div>
<p>That's funny. That's actually the part that made the most sense to me. It's like a description of energy efficiency. An inefficient engine converts gas to locomotion poorly, so it's wasting most of that energy as waste heat. Meanwhile, an efficient engine will get the maximum amount of energy out of a gallon of gasoline and convert it into locomotion, wasting a much smaller amount of energy as waste heat. </p><p>That's how I think of using chakra. Sakura was highly "efficient," Sasuke moderately efficient, and Naruto highly "inefficient" at using chakra. Sakura converted the necessary amount of chakra into her jutsus, almost nothing wasted. Sasuke was middle of the road, but had a higher chakra pool and better jutsu. Naruto was terrible at converting his chakra into jutsu, so ended up wasting a lot of chakra to do the same things the others could do with less, but had a metric crap ton of chakra to throw at any jutsu. </p>

<p>The explanation of how Naruto (and to a lesser extent, Sasuke) are imperfect at creating chakra makes sense, but the part about any extra chakra getting wasted doesn't really. Ebisu says the extra chakra is wasted because it can't be converted back into stamina, but there's no reason it can't just be used for another jutsu. </p><p>His whole explanation seems to imply that a shinobi's default state is having 100% stamina and 0% chakra, with chakra only getting created as needed, but there are a bunch of things in the series that show otherwise. Concepts like the Eight Gates, Gentle Fist, and sensing all rely on the idea that chakra is constantly being created and flowing through the body at all times, and there are even times in the war arc where we see characters build up their chakra in advance to have it ready for later. That's the part that never made sense to me. </p>

<p>Wasn't it also said that if a shinobi runs out of chakra, they die? xD </p>

<div class="quote"><i> <p>Seelentau wrote: Wasn't it also said that if a shinobi runs out of chakra, they die? xD </p> </i></div>
<p>Yeah, though to be fair Ebisu says it’s when you run out of both chakra and stamina that you die. I think Kakashi is the one who says running out of chakra means death at some point (and then tests it out for himself later). </p>