As we should all know by now, the mode that Naruto dons in Gaiden and in the Boruto movie is in fact RSM. Furthermore, we should all know by now that there are 3 forms of RSM Naruto.
Base RSM: The form Naruto donned when he kicked Madara's truth seeking ball.
Kurama Chakara RSM: The form adult Naruto dons.
9 bijuu RSM: The strongest and most epic form that Naruto donned in the battles against Rikudou Madara, Kaguya, and Sasuke.
Now I have a few gripes with the 2nd one (Kurama chakara RSM). To be honest, my gripes really aren't with the form itself, but more so the way Kishi handled the form.
1. My first gripe revolves around the abilities that Kishi had adult RSM Naruto show. As stated by the databook, RSM (even at base) grants all 5 nature transformations as well as yin-yang release, flight, immunity to truth seeking balls, supreme sensing capabilities, speed/reaction time that matches or surpasses that of a 10 tails jinchuuriki, and a universal understanding of chakara. Now the really important things to focus on here are the 5 nature transformations, the yin-yang release and the universal understanding of chakara.
With all chakara natures including yin-yang and a universal understanding of chakara (which would allow a person to automatically be a master at said natures without even having to train with them), Naruto should be able to easily use techniques such as a fire style rasenshuriken or kekkei genkai elements such as lava and boil release even if he doesn't have the chakaras of all the other bijuus (which he was not stated in any official source to have lost them by the way). In other words, even if Naruto did lose the other bijuus, he should still retain access to all the elements that they granted him just due to being in RSM (even in base RSM). Basically, the loss of the other bijuus if he did in fact lose them should essentially simply result in a slightly less amount of chakara for Naruto to draw from.
Additionally, it is also debatable that adult Naruto should have likely still been able to make truth seeking balls even without the 9 bijuus. Some people believe that the 9 bijuus were responsible for the truth seeking balls, but if you look closely in the manga, you'll notice a few things:
Hagoromo actually had truth seeking balls before becoming the 10 tails jinchuuriki as well as after his death. In other words, he had them at times when he did not have bijuu chakara. In both situations, it was just rikudou senjutsu (no bijuu chakara). This is at the very least a hint that rikudou senjutsu alone allows a person to use truth seeking balls.
Another thing to note is that when Obito stole some rikudou senjutsu chakara from Madara, he got a truth seeking ball, and if you pay attention then you will notice that he got the ball before grabbing onto Shukaku and Gyuki's chakaras. This is just another hint that rikudou senjutsu alone allows for the creation of truth seeking balls.
A big hint is also the fact that Hamura who was never a jinchuuriki to begin with (who is also actually not even listed as a user of rikudou senjutsu either) had truth seeking balls even without being in tenseigan chakara mode.
I won't get into Toneri.
Having noted all of these things, it stands to reason that Naruto at least in theory should still be able to make truth seeking balls even without the 9 bijuus.
Despite all of this, Kishi only had adult Naruto show manipulation of Kurama's chakara/body parts along with the usual shadow clone jutsu and rasengan. Now my problem is not that Naruto didn't use his full power. After all, Sasuke didn't use all the paths of the rinnegan either. My problem is that adult Naruto used so little of the things that he could have used, that it seemed as if he lost a lot of power. That is my problem. Despite being in RSM, everything that adult Naruto did were things that he could have done in normal BM or at times even KCM for that matter! He doesn't have to use absolutely everything in his arsenal necessarily, but I wish that Naruto used something that distinguished RSM from lesser modes (and no simple flight doesn't count).
Here is what I mean:
As I stated before, Sasuke didn't necessarily use all the paths of the rinnegan, but we at least got to see adult Sasuke use amenotejikara a few times along with that epic portal jutsu that adult Sasuke has. Kishi handled Sasuke well. With the way he handled adult Sasuke, we could still tell that Sasuke didn't lose rinnegan or that Kishi didn't just plain forget that Sasuke had it (and we could tell this by seeing his power in addition to just plain seeing the eye itself).
With Naruto on the other hand just using chakara arms and manifesting Kurama, for the longest time we couldn't tell what mode Naruto was in. Heck, when Gaiden RSM Naruto was first seen, I and a lot of other people thought it was BSM. The only way we were able to distinguish that it was RSM was by noting that the eyes were RSM eyes and that they lacked the sage mode pigmentation around them. It is not even like the RSM eyes are a dojutsu either! Kishi even made the cloak look like a normal BM cloak!
Basically Kishi did this:
He made adult Naruto use BM/KCM level power with absolutely nothing (no special elements or yin-yang or truth seeking balls) to give even the tiniest hint of Naruto having rikudou level power.
He gave the mode a BM/KCM looking design with only a small and non-prominent feature (the eyes) to indicate that it was RSM.
In summary, while Kishi technically didn't take RSM away from Naruto, he might as well have. What is the point of making it RSM if there is practically no distinguishing it from BSM? One special kekkei genkai element is all I ask. Just one boil release rasenshuriken or something like that! Just one little thing like that would distinguish RSM power just as a few little uses of amenotejikara distinguished that Sasuke could still use rinnegan. Is that so much to ask?
What do you guys think? Do you think that Kishi could have handled adult RSM a lot better and distinguished it from his lower forms a lot better?
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