In 26 minutes, Nick has justified why you should join our Itachi Cult. Tsukuyomi > Kotoamatsukami

Itachi was SO strong that Kishimoto had to kill him off with natural causes.

It's the fact that Itachi is so not just powerful, but he thinks highly. So you gotta checkmate him. So you don't necessarily need power with Itachi but rather a master plan. Be ahead of him always... And to me, that's the scariest thing about Itachi.

Dont forget itachi did not want to become the strongest, he didnt seek out a way to become the strongest. He only acquire enough power for his plans. While other characters get boosted by other creatures or hashirama's nuts.

Jokes aside, I think people underestimate how sick Itachi actually was. This guy was literally hours away from dropping dead from a fatal sickness. This combined with being almost entirely blind and he still had to hold back against someone who beat Deidara while holding back Man's a monster

11:59 small correction, Kakashi making eye contact with Itachi wasn't an accident, he incorrectly assumed that his Sharingan would make him resistant/immune to genjutsu (which is probably true in the case of average genjutsu, but he underestimated Tsukuyomi's power).

Itachi gave Izumi a taste of Infinite Tsukuyomi.

He didn't even talk about how Tsukuyomi is practically unbreakable. The genjutsu only lasts for 0.0003 seconds so even perfect jinchurikiis like Naruto with Kurama couldn't break out of it.

Can't believe someone finally gets how strong tsukuyomi is

The Genjutsu he applied to his girlfriend quickly gave me a new perspective on life in general, how many things we all have to be grateful for. Itachi, a true gentlemen he was.

I always wanted to see itachi use tsukuyomi on a team mate mid battle, imagine giving your teammate 3 peaceful days of planning. Imagine if minato figured out the rasengan in an instant. Basically he can put peoples brains into hyper drive but never does

I'm so gald to see Nick finally giving itachi some love 😭

Itachi himself said the pain that you are feeling is real. The reality of Tsukuyomi is the truth for the user and the victim, until they break out, and the damage is reflected in reality.

NC argues against NC , we have officially crossed the threshold of "The Sacred Timeline."

Itachi did actually use Tsukuyomi on Kabuto after locking him into Izanami in order to make him perform the hand signs to release Edo Tensei.

I actually always thought Tsukuyomi was the strongest, that's why the entire eye of the moon plan was to create Infinite Tsukuyomi, and not Infinite Kotoamatsukame

Skill and strength are 2 different things.

Nick: Itachi is the strongest Uchiha. Madara: Am I a joke to you?

I just read Itachi shinden for the first time. It was a fantastic story. He is really one of the most interesting characters.

His Amaterasu is also very underrated. He guides it by looking at things, and good luck trying to not get looked at by a guy with Sharingan. I think its representation on-screen also was severely hampered by the kinds of fights he had, same as Tsukuyomi (one he intentionally had to throw while already blind, other with severe restrictions on killing/incapacitating opponent).

I’ve always thought an extremely op way for Itachi to use Tsukuyomi would be to use it how Naruto used shadow clones to train, so to minimize the amount of time it would take to learn a jutsu to just a few seconds. But idk i don’t have the knowledge nick has lol

Remember. Kakashi barely survived Itachi's Tsukuyomi.

Sasuke is who I love. Itachi to me is like a lot of people, his story isn't known by everyone, so almost everyone would rather kill him. But he does the right thing when maybe he shouldn't be held to do that. He's a dark knight.

23:29 this makes me want a video about how strong Hiruzen was in his prime. Obviously he wouldn't be an Otsutski level threat. But considering he had the power as an old man to push Kurama out of the village and he kept relative pace with Tobirama and Hashirama, it makes me really wonder if he deserves more respect. Especially a prime Hiruzen.

I like this. In addition, with Itachi being so very gentle, the idea of a "Gentle Killer" jutsu that's completely bloodless also fits with his archetype. Even further, his father is Wicked Eye Fugaku. Why? Because while we don't know necessarily exactly what his eyes do I think that his eyes are literally able to convince someone that they're either dead or dismemberd. If you believe that your leg is gone, then you're not going to use your leg, explaining how his visual prowess was capable of handling entire armies of ninja. But you know who could survive Wicked Eye Fugaku? The Samurai. Make a video to prove me wrong.

Behind Itachi before the Massacre was Shisui.

I've been saying this for years that if Itachi can get you in Tsukuyomi he won the fight no matter who it is. Obito was literally afraid of Itachi because he knew what he could do. He was afraid Itachi would kill him if he tried to approach Sasuke.

If looks can kill Itachi: 👁👄👁

I always just figured Tsukuyomi killed Izumi because her brain was forced to process her entire lifespan within the span of a picosecond, which really would overload the brain

Hey Nick, I also can't help but point out that in Volume 29, I assume Chapter 258 as it just says Number 258, the clone of Itachi with 30% of his chakra casts Tsukiyomi on Naruto by pointing at him. Thus negating the need to make full eye contact with him for it to work on people

This was an awesome take on a really good find within the lore. One thing I think is interesting here is that it doesn't actually change much about what Itachi is capable of. Anyone that Itachi could not have defeated before this theory is not going to be defeated by him using Tsukuyomi anyway, so it doesn't really change the outcome of anything. The strongest people in the Naruto verse are all relatively immune to genjutsu in one way or another. Or, from a different perspective - Itachi can already defeat almost anyone that he CAN use Tsukuyomi on without using Tsukuyomi.

I said this in a video before! Lol. People kept saying that people like Minato could have their Bijuu break them out of Tsukyomi so it was useless, but they'd have far less than a second to realize it was even cast on the Jinchuriki before the person is dead.

We're told in Boruto that the Sharingan is much more powerful when driven by love instead of hate. Because Itachi loved Izumi so much, he was able to take her life with Tsukiyomi. I'm 100% an Itachi fangirl.

The thing that shuts this down for me is I’m huge on the tsukuyomi being his sickness I think itachi also has to experience the tsukuyomi he cast on someone so that’s also why he normally puts a cap on how long someone is in there and why he wouldn’t be able to tsukuyomi someone for 50 plus years again

If only the Uchiha had power levels.

Comparing Tsukuyomi to Kotoamatsukami has always been kinda odd to me. They’re both Genjutsu, but they’re used for completely different things. It’s like comparing the Rasengan to Super Lightweight Bolder Jutsu. They’re ninjutsu that are both really good at completely different things. Edit: For combat purposes, Tsukuyomi is absolutely the strongest Genjutsu. But Kotoamatsukami isn’t a tool meant for combat.

Now I'm even more curious about the abilities of wicked eye fugaku, why he had a flea on sight status and why itachi was nervous about battling him. Maybe he was killing enemies by just looking at them

Itachi would hate Nick for hating Sasuke.

Two itachi videos in three days?!? Thank you Nick!!!

Tsukoyomi, Amatarasu and Susanoo with Yata Mirror and the sword were basically invincible, logically nothing could beat it. As the story progressed it obviously had to be nerfed to allow for power creep. Amatarasu went from un stopable to being easily defeated by shedding your clothes lol

He seems to be very informed and that is what scares me the most if I was gonna fight him. But in that world I don't I'd know all his powers. I think what'd you need to do is try to disable him even more like blend him, take out his sense of smell and definitely make it so that he can't use chakra or he'll die. And finally, blitz him and discard of his body. I think the most important thing to have in a fight with Itachi is defense physically and from chakra so that he can't use those moves on you. And make sure you can endure the fight for a while, so it's hopefully easier to blitz him.

Itachi:literally killed his clan for no valid reason at all The fans: wow what a wholesome character

Even if Itachi is basically a pacifist, that doesn't mean that he can't mobilize and adapt in an unnatural situation, especially if the confrontation is a serious one, he prefers most of the time to finish the fights as quickly as possible, that's why Itachi should never be underestimated. Itachi lived his whole life so that Sasuke could defeat him and become an Uchiha hero as well as a hero of the leaf. That, obviously, didn’t go as planned. However, it did allow Sasuke to grow and begin to start asking the right questions that would eventually lead him to becoming the man he (Itachi) wanted him to be. (Itachi was killed so that Sasuke could grow more powerful both as a character (to us in a real world moral sense) and as a Ninja. Itachi from the get go was extremely talented which more precisly means that Itachi just like Minato was pretty much an unique, authentic and especially unpredictable Shinobi which could exceed or overcome almost any expectations. (at least that's what we were shown in the anime by the creator Masashi Kishimoto himself) In my opinion No One in the series should underestimate such an unpredictable Shinobi like Itachi, even Madara (I won't say that Itachi can beat him, but at least he will be pretty much able to put a decent fight that Madara will also be impressed in my opinion). That is why it is arguable/debatable that he probably could or could not defeat foes like Minato, Obito or Pain/Nagato. Itachi was also a prodigy from birth and he knew all sorts of tricks and he's definitely a troublesome fellow to encounter. In my opinion, they are both very versatile, unique, interesting and especially very unpredictable in their way of fighting style approach. If you make an effort to look or to rewatch at all of Itachi's fights, you might discover that he's pretty much always able to outsmart anyone during a fight or a encounter, because of his unpredictability in his way of fighting style approach. His way of thinking and his calmness, intelligence and battle IQ experience factor it's very authentic and underrated, his true potential remain still unknown, because he wasn't go all out against anyone during the series.🤷🏻‍♂️☯️ I don't understand how some of you guys even dare or can to underestimate Itachi like that, many of you guys forget that Itachi isn't just any ordinary shinobi either, he is still considered by a very wide range of Naruto connoisseurs to be a very unique and unpredictable character at the same time and no one should underestimate him as some of you guys currently do. ;/ ☯️🤷🏻‍♂️What you have to remember, is that even in his battle with Sasuke, he has been fighting to lose. Itachi has always attempted to avoid conflict at all costs. He has to maintain his cover as an Akatsuki member, so he has to make viable excuses to avoid battle. When he says that fighting Jiraiya would have serious consequences, we know that he has an innate desire not to fight anyone at all, let alone a hero of the leaf, and he was a spy protecting Konoha from shadows. He could have killed Kakashi with ease. Kakashi even states that Itachi could have killed him, and wondered why he didn't. Knowing this, it is easy to see the pieces that point to a picture of Itachi that is devastatingly powerful in combat. In his confrontation with Asuma and Kurenai when he enters Konoha, we see him send Kurenai flying a large distance with a simple kick. We also see him deflect chidori, and snap Sasuke's arm like a twig with a single hand. He also sends Sasuke flying clear down the hallway with another kick in this fight. He is obviously a powerful, versatile, unpredictable and underrated taijutsu user. We know that he can kill with a glance using Tsukuyomi or Amaterasu, and become nearly invincible with his Susanoo. We see him use exploding clones, (it's his one of his unpredictability in his fighting way approach) powerful genjutsu not linked to his sharingan, ( with a single point of a one of his fingers) and making hand seals at insane speeds. He kicks the shit out of Kakashi and he barely moves. Tobi also tells us himself that Itachi could have killed him if it weren't for carefully guarded secrets. Orochimaru beats Tsunade and Jiraiya without the use of his arms. Granted, Jiraiya was drugged, but it's still the point. Orochimaru couldn't use seals at all. Itachi obliterated Orochimaru effortlessly. Itachi has been a step above from the beginning. In order for him to keep his cover in Akatsuki, he had to avoid conflict without arousing suspicion, and the best way to do that was to present himself as being much less powerful than he actually is. The one thing we have been able to see in detail, is his intelligence and unpredictability in his fighting way approach. Itachi has been shown to be able to plan events years in advance, to account for possible flaws in his plans with powerful contingencies, and to use every possibility to his advantage. Shikamaru plans a few hours in advance, and we label him a tactical genius. If that is the case, what does one even call Itachi? The only real flaws that Itachi possesses is a smaller chakra reserves, and his own morality which keeps him from gaining Eternal Mangekyo. But even the chakra is arguable. The techniques we see him use are enormously powerful, and would therefor have a huge chakra cost. I'm not going to say he is the most powerful character in the anime, but I am going to say he is definitely very very high on that list, and probably higher than most people seem to give him credit for. Lastly but not least, Kishimoto made sure that Itachi was seen as someone special and he did an incredible job in establishing that in the story. 🤷🏻‍♂️☯️✌️

16:36 I didn’t expect to hear this during a Naruto video

He actually used Tsukoyomi on Kabuto....after he was paralized by Izanami, Itachi opened his eyes with his fingers and casted Tsukoyomi on him...

Infinite Tsukuyomi was casted and Madara didn't control everyone. My guess is that Itachi can simply give a general indication of what he wants the person to see and feel during the genjutsu and doesn't need to be there for 2/3 days or 70 years

So to kinda add to your previous video about Itachi being a horrible spy. He didn't even have to like find an opening to deliver information or drop off paperwork. He could have hit someone that needed to know with Tsukiyomi and not only had basically infinite time to explain everything he learned, but as the "god" of the Tsukiyomi world he could have made facsimiles of the various Akatsuki and shown them what they could do and potential weaknesses basically instantly. Hell he had 72 hours with Kakashi that would have been more than enough time to explain his entire backstory and the situation and it would have been some amazing set up for Shippuden. We could have been left wondering why Kakashi seems to know about what the Akatsuki can do before we meet them and build up to the reveal that Itachi isn't the villain we thought he was.

0:12 dude says some wild stuff as time goes on ay 😂

Nick can we get a video on how good naruto is able to control his chakra and include whether or not he had to balance his chakra with kuramas when he was starting in the academy

madara & obito fans punching the air right now

For some reason so many Naruto fans just can't seem to remember that the only reason why Naruto still had poor chakra control in Chuunin tournament arc was because of Orochimaru fucking up his Kurama seal. He was severely handicapped at that point but somehow still managed to be useful.

Thanks for all the awesome content man. It’s truly saved my life over the last year or so.

Maybe... Itachi put his girlfriend in a perfect dream for himself, too... So he could have a taste of the life he trully wanted...

I feel as though you just gotta out hax Itachi but also make sure you're powers isn't that easy to analyze. And to maybe only fight him with a team rather than by yourself. Get Itachi by himself.

I think the coma and death were just caused by the shock of experiencing 3 days of torture and 65 years all at once

This made me think of one thing though, if he only needs like a third of a second to do all that why not use it as a way to oh idk TELL THE LEAF YOU’RE ACTUALLY ON THEIR SIDE AND A DOUBLE AGENT SENT BY THE HOKAGE TO INFILTRATE THE AKATSUKI. Like it’s the PERFECT way to have secret meetings and pass information. Plus I’m sure the strain on the person under the genjutsu will most likely pass out from exhaustion anyway. Or he can be like “okay after this I need you to act tired or run away” come on Itachi work smarter not harder.

Here’s my question of the day: could sharingan and byakugan users see stands from JJBA? Because usually only stand users can see stands, but how would that apply to dojutsu users?

Yes. Itachi's a fan favorite. But he will never be stronger than Madara.

this video is 11 months old and im not even finished with the 4th great ninja war, but Itachi is by far the greatest and i stand by that

Yes, keep making Itachi content for us Leos who have to celebrate a birthday month with no frickin holiday.

Itachi fans will say that Itachi can beat Keiki Haniyasushin and Okina Matara because Itachi has Tsukuyomi in a picosecond while Keiki has the ability to create idols and Okina has the ability to create back doors at the back of anything.

15:00 you can actually just kinda will power yourself out of Tsukuyomi. And it’s also mentioned in Itachi’s novels that medical ninjutsu is commonly known to cure it.

The real mindf*** is when you imagine what sort of skills/techniques Itachi could allow a Shinobi to learn if he used Tsukiyomi to give someone that time to train or develop new jutsu. It could theoretically be the room of spirit and time on steroids. Now I wonder if Naruto could use shadow clones in tsukiyomi and multiply his growth even farther. 🤔

The powerful character by which he was not famous for his powers but something we cannot explain . If he appears an in screen even the protagonist didn’t get the chance for a MVP . He was the hero in his 24 episodes without losing a single battle 🐐

Itachi offed his clan to save Konoha. Just cause he was able to save one family member in the process doesn’t mean he did it for Sasuke😅 Naruto’s fans, for their own mental health truly need to stop romanticizing everything about Itachi. He didn’t sacrifice himself, he sacrificed his own family, a family he absolutely despised. The only people he felt bad killing were his parents and still had the guts to do it. And his all plan with Sasuke failed miserably, instead of “making him strong” he put him under a genjutsu and showed him how he offed everyone for thousands of times and even manipulated a 7 y.o kid into offing his best friend and achieve power. Just cause he had the wellfare of Konoha on his mind can’t erase his crimes, which were terrible. He turned Sasuke into a completely unstable person with little to no chances of ever healing after something like that. And the irony is that Itachi admitted to his past mistakes but you guys worship him for being “perfect”😅 it’s really not healthy

Let's not forget Sasuke is the only person who has broken out of Tsukuyomi, and that was only because of the curse mark conveniently activating and disrupting his natural chakra similarly to what happens with jinchuriki. Could be why Itachi took away the curse mark, to then hit Sasuke with Izanami without complication. But then he ran out of time.

Itachi: Domain Expansion- Infinite Void🤞🏽

on one hand i wanna be super impressed and shocked, on the other hand i swear you talked about this in one of your videos assessing Itachi's stregnth before lol

Id say smartest yes. Strongest ? No. Sasuke deff is.....

Itachi is cool but theirs way too may meat riders

The way you talked about leftovers and baldurs gate 3 💀 watching this while in the kitchen, heating up leftovers, after playing bg3 😭😭 wrong order but damn

Please make "Itachi vs Pain/Nagato." I don't understand why you didn't do this already. It's a long overdue.

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he can't beat Madara.

"He needs eye contact" nop, he actually doesn't, he is super broken, he only need to be close enough, he is literally a demigod in the narutoverse, not even Madara could beat him if he used 100% of his powers, that in the words of Kishi.

In a way you can relate it to infinite void being that you take in so much information in such a short period of time you essentially fry your brain and all of your senses

Bro got when when he said his girl out of town he's bored hahahahhahah I feel that same way when my girl go to.

It’s worth mentioning that in the Sasuke fight him using Tsukuyomi in real time physically and mentally exhausted Sasuke to the point that the only thing that could break him out was the curse mark.

Imagine Itachi using Tsukuyomi during the chunin exams, instead of the normal genjutsu when he was fighting the 1 on 1 battle with guy that would fall asleep.

23:26 "as we know the older you get the lower your chakra levels become, look at hirozen in his fight with orochimaru" i feel like nick forgot hirozen was able to take both tobirama and hashiramas souls along with orochimaru arms, prob not the best example 😭

Killing someone instantly is insane, but he can also just sit there and think really hard for a year or two to solve any problem and beat any enemy without killing. This man can stack sooo many lifetimes worth of knowlege into one sec, that kinda exelartes his inteligence by soo much. also he is not alone in thinkinh he can invite any perosn to his realm and ponder for hundreats of years about any thing. Intachi could be the gratest philospher, wisesed and most inteligent man in the universe. ye thats a lil broken even for civialn uses lol

Nicholas you really do love itachi 😂❤

Love the idea and makes total sense. He may have gave up some of his own life to not have to ko kakashi. What a guy

so in a way itachi was lucky tsunade was so good as a medic AND willing to come home. otherwise he would´ve put one of the strongest defenders of konoha out of commision as well as destroyed the uchiha clan entirely and ruined his plan for keeping sasuke alive

I believe that the more time he spends in his genjutsu the more it damages his chakra because his spirit ages much faster than his physical self because of the time dilation so his spiritual energy is decades older than his physical self.

Nick deserves way more subscribers then he currently has

I've always thought that Tsukuyomi just create false memories really fast, shaping the neurons in the brain, making person believe he had been tortured for days just now and remembering every moment and be traumatized by all events that took place. Mangekyo is not a shinjutsu like Rinnegan, and Mangekyo should just be a cheap imitation of true divine visual prowess.

This makes so much sense and I like it so much that I would rather believe a lie if Kishimoto ever decides to retcon your theory.

LMAO I'm down for ANY Itachi vid ❤️🔥💪🏾

So itachi didn't have an illness, he just literally was a 70 plus year old man when it comes to chakra. I like that theory and to me it makes more sense.

Itachi is perhaps the most powerful anime character of all time, and that’s pretty cool

20:43 my friend who was watching with me: Ya it's not like he had friends in his clan Me: the only friend he had died shisui

It's crazy he put all this time into the video for me to just play in my headphones omw to sleep 😂I enjoy it tho

0.000000001 seconds. Literally undodgeable

Itachi sitting on the throne of his own lies all alone, waiting for his death is kind of deep imo

When I saw 2 exclamation marks, i knew he wouldn’t be actively defending that.

13:26 If Itachi really wanted Kakashi to die after his Tsukuyomi he would have removed Kakashi’s masks instead of stabbing him.

Yes he's the strongest ❤️‍🔥

If he does live in Tsukyomi with the person he uses it on, wouldn't that mean he can train inside of it just like the hyperbolic time chamber and actually BE the strongest Uchiha from decades of honing his skills?

Just remember if Tsunade wasn't around to heal Kakashi. He'd be dancing in front of Ichiraku Naked talking about how he used to be a Anbu Captain and no one believing him.