This isn't a thread about plotholes, timeline inconsistencies, or manga mistakes. Instead, this is a thread about things Kishi has outright changed during the course of his manga. More specifically, I want to show instances where Kishi has revealed a fact in his manga, and then clearly changed that reality to a new one in later chapters. Obviously there are distinct reasons for most of these changes, but I just want to show the changes that I am aware of.
First off, we all know that there has been some serious changes to Izanami/ Izanagi ever since we have seen Edo Itachi utilize one of the Jutsu. Back in the day, we were told that Izanagi has a minimal requirement of Uchiha + Senju DNA:
Now you might argue that this statement simply means that you must have both sets of DNA to MASTER the justu, and that is certainly what recent chapters have implied; but, without a doubt, Kishi initially made it absolutely clear back in chapter 510 that Senju DNA is a minimal requirement for the Jutsu. I strongly feel that this is an aspect of his manga that Kishi outright changed in order to reveal new aspects of his story. Allowing all Uchiha access to the Jutsu makes the story much more interesting, and I feel that he changed it for this very reason.
The next change that I want to mention is the actual result of using Izanagi/ Izanami. We all know that Tobi's eye physically CLOSED after utilizing Izanagi (see image above), but for Itachi, the result was different:
As you can see, Itachi's eye did not close, but instead faded out, implying total loss of sight. Now obviously the old assumption was that they eye was struck blind and then closed, but clearly Itachi's eye never forcibly closes. I don't really see a reason for Kishi to make this change and it felt rather strange to see him make such an obvious change.
Next up is Kishi's interpretation of the human soul. Before the war began, the soul was never shown to reveal aspects of the person it came from. At the most, the soul showed an outline of the person's hairline or basic facial outlines, but never details of the whole body:
Now that's obviously overkill, but I wanted to make clear how generic Kishi made the standard soul look when separated from the body. Since the start of the war however, Kishi has made the soul take on the physical attributes of the person in question. The first example of this was Naruto. Pay close attention to Naruto holding onto his own soul:
And obviously, we have seen full versions of every edo Tensei soul since the release. The most notable of which are Dan and Madara:
This is an obvious change on Kishi's part, but clearly the change was made for the specific reasons of showing Dan's secret ghost technique and also for allowing Madara an easy way of resealing his soul back into his body, since he still had a partial form.
Lastly, I want to talk about Sasuke U_U. Clearly, contrary to what some people will tell you, Kishi outright CHANGED the design of Sasuke's EMS. This is how it originally looked, followed by its present design:
The obvious reason for this change is that Sasuke looks downright CROSS-EYED with his original EMS. I think that Kishi's original thought on making his EMS like that is to account for the curved design of Itachi's MS. Since he made those small ellipses straight as opposed to curved like Itachi's were, I think he inverted them so that it more accounted for Itachi's design. But clearly this design was altered to be symmetrical, most likely due to Kishi's assistants.
These are the instances that I feel are significant and worth mentioning. Feel free to question or discuss, or if you have an instance that you want to add to the list, I'd like to hear it. Thanks for reading
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First off, we all know that there has been some serious changes to Izanami/ Izanagi ever since we have seen Edo Itachi utilize one of the Jutsu. Back in the day, we were told that Izanagi has a minimal requirement of Uchiha + Senju DNA:
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Now you might argue that this statement simply means that you must have both sets of DNA to MASTER the justu, and that is certainly what recent chapters have implied; but, without a doubt, Kishi initially made it absolutely clear back in chapter 510 that Senju DNA is a minimal requirement for the Jutsu. I strongly feel that this is an aspect of his manga that Kishi outright changed in order to reveal new aspects of his story. Allowing all Uchiha access to the Jutsu makes the story much more interesting, and I feel that he changed it for this very reason.
The next change that I want to mention is the actual result of using Izanagi/ Izanami. We all know that Tobi's eye physically CLOSED after utilizing Izanagi (see image above), but for Itachi, the result was different:
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As you can see, Itachi's eye did not close, but instead faded out, implying total loss of sight. Now obviously the old assumption was that they eye was struck blind and then closed, but clearly Itachi's eye never forcibly closes. I don't really see a reason for Kishi to make this change and it felt rather strange to see him make such an obvious change.
Next up is Kishi's interpretation of the human soul. Before the war began, the soul was never shown to reveal aspects of the person it came from. At the most, the soul showed an outline of the person's hairline or basic facial outlines, but never details of the whole body:
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You must be registered for see images
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Now that's obviously overkill, but I wanted to make clear how generic Kishi made the standard soul look when separated from the body. Since the start of the war however, Kishi has made the soul take on the physical attributes of the person in question. The first example of this was Naruto. Pay close attention to Naruto holding onto his own soul:
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And obviously, we have seen full versions of every edo Tensei soul since the release. The most notable of which are Dan and Madara:
You must be registered for see images
You must be registered for see images
This is an obvious change on Kishi's part, but clearly the change was made for the specific reasons of showing Dan's secret ghost technique and also for allowing Madara an easy way of resealing his soul back into his body, since he still had a partial form.
Lastly, I want to talk about Sasuke U_U. Clearly, contrary to what some people will tell you, Kishi outright CHANGED the design of Sasuke's EMS. This is how it originally looked, followed by its present design:
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You must be registered for see images
The obvious reason for this change is that Sasuke looks downright CROSS-EYED with his original EMS. I think that Kishi's original thought on making his EMS like that is to account for the curved design of Itachi's MS. Since he made those small ellipses straight as opposed to curved like Itachi's were, I think he inverted them so that it more accounted for Itachi's design. But clearly this design was altered to be symmetrical, most likely due to Kishi's assistants.
These are the instances that I feel are significant and worth mentioning. Feel free to question or discuss, or if you have an instance that you want to add to the list, I'd like to hear it. Thanks for reading
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