Re: Tobi is not Madara. Period.
Have you perhaps considered that Kishi might want everyone to think Tobi is Madara in order to pull off a surprise near the end? If you read his brother's manga, the ultimate villian turned out to be someone completely unexpected. They are twins, I believe Kishi is going to pull of a surprise, it is hard to argue against this.
I can acknowledge that Kishi could just be lying about Madara. But then, what does that say about all the OTHER info kishi has given us.... like Naruto's parents and such, all of that would become suspect if you believe Kishi will lie to add twists. And i dont mean villians lieing to obviously brain damaged children , like sasuke... or good guys lieing to underdeveloped due to neglect children, like Naruto... I mean KISHI in his titles and those question statement things.... examples...
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on the side it calls the person who pulled him away Naruto's father... i wasnt talking about the dialogue.
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again along the side
and well, there are lots of time in the last couple of chapters but here is the first one, where KISHI says Kushina is naruto's mother
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Again, those links are when KISHI says these things, not when any of the characters say it. If we cant believe the Madara bit, then for all we know the 4th and Kushina are just manipulating Naruto....
Anyways, while i havent read his brothers manga, i dont think i have at least, i would like to point out that the way you described it is a slightly different thing. You made it sound more like his brother did the akatsuki thing, public main bad guy with someone else pulling the strings. Which you know kishi did copy. Did his brother tell everyone reading the manga that the string puller was one person( and not have characters name the person, but ACTUALLY name him) and then make him someone else in the end? Because if not, well like i said, it sounds more like the akatsuki thing...