No. The next panel doesn't show him any further away from his original position behind Gaara's gourd, the panel is just drawn from another angle. Weak evidence for you trying to prove that Onoki used weighted boulder on the ground when that was never shown. All we see is him using lightened boulder on the gourd, saying that he made the sand around there lighter, and then the sand beneath Madara's Susanoo being lightened. Explain to me the bold? The desert is not a single unit. Like I just said, sand is composed of billions of tiny grains. Even if Onoki did place his hands on the desert floor and touch a few grains of sand, and the grains of sand beneath Madara get lightened too (despite Onoki not having touched them) then that's proof right there that direct contact isn't needed for lightened boulder to take effect. Meaning that if you deny that only indirect contact is needed for LB/WB to work you're choosing to deny manga fact. Your Minato example fails because Onoki's jutsu and Minato's jutsu don't work the same way at all nor were they implied to.
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Onoki was carrying turtle island with one hand. If everybody on the island retained their normal weight, Onoki wouldn't be able to pick them all up unless you're suggesting Onoki is physically strong enough to literally carry tons of cargo. That should end this discussion.
You would be right that it doesn't matter if you can come up with an explanation or not...... if only manga panels didn't prove my assertion to be 100% right. I know it's unfair that Muu is actually this OP, but you can either choose to deal with it or you can choose to deny manga facts. Your choice :lol.
-The individual grains of sand beneath Madara were lightened despite Onoki
never making contact with that part of the desert.
-All the objects on Turtle Island got lightened despite Onoki not lightening them all individually,
proof being that Onoki could carry it all with one hand.
-Onoki weighted down five Susanoo clones by touching the ground (implied because there's no other way he could have done it.)
I don't even know where you're going with the SZ point. Can't see how that's relevant tbh.
1. So? Could be because Muu was flying through the air. Just because Onoki can weigh down opponents just by touching the ground doesn't mean there aren't limitations to the technique. If the target's position is constantly changing then Onoki can't zero in on his target and therefore doesn't know where to direct his jutsu. In fact, after looking through these pages I just found ANOTHER piece of evidence for why direct contact isn't needed.
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Look at the sand around Muu. If you've ever been to the beach, you know sand doesn't act like that when a heavy object is placed on top of it. It looks like the sand beneath Muu got weighted down too, with its effect gradually decreasing the further away it is from Muu.
2. Lol. I hope you know why this example is bad. If Onoki wasn't on Ay's back, he'd have no clue where Ay was (and therefore where to direct his jutsu) nor would he know when Ay was going to strike (and therefore when to use WB.)
3. What would making Madara heavy have accomplished? They still wouldn't be able to breach Susanoo. Plus it seems that the farther away from the point of contact the target is, the smaller the effect is.
@Bold, did you really just say that feats are irrelevant... :|
Come on now. That's not proof. How does Itachi actually defeat Muu?