Why is genutsu so underpowered?

In the world of Naruto, Nothing really beats a feeling of fear in the main characters or the audience more than falling under a genius. We see how Genjutsu can be used for brutal effect to torture ninjas in a time -dilating environment that seems to be forever. In addition, the effects of genutsu are usually easy to activate. If a ninja looks at the eyes of some genutsu users by mistake for even a millisecond, they may fall under the influence of technology.

Given the power and ease of using genutsu, why does it seem like it is never one thing to fear as the series continues? You would think that a technology to influence and control someone's mind would have much more application than is shown in the series. So why exactly Genjutsu is rarely used in high -level fights, and what does it so underpowered despite its surface level strengths?

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Genjutsu got powercrept

Constantly evolving threats made genutsu useless

Although he was a terrible technique, Genjutsu simply could not keep up with the constant increases of the villains in Naruto. Genjutsu itself was limited by the fact that it could not mostly affect the physical world, only people's perception of it. This simply did not get good enough in Naruto The universe, where villains can cause destruction on massive scales.

Genjutsu also had several restriction factors that prevented it from being widely used when the story continued. Often, Genjutsu had a limited interval and influence sphere. While a ninjutsu technique to call a giant meteor could erase an entire village, most genutsu had a hard time affecting more than one person at a time. Genjutsu that can affect several people often came at a heavy price. Sasuke's Genjtsu demanded that he have both Rinnegan and developed the Sharingan to allow Genjutsu to be used on several goals at the same time. There was also the infinite tsukuyomy, which required the user to have the Rinne Sharingan and have enough power to reflect it from the moon, with the profit that Genjutsu could affect the whole world.

“In tsukuyomy, time and space, even physical mass I control them all. The next 72 hours will be nothing but this over and over again.” -Itachi uchiha

But even in these cases, some characters were immune to such extensive techniques. Zombies revived with Edo Tensi technology was not affected by the infinite tsukuyomy, as was those who had Rinnegan. This emphasizes another point against Genjutsu: if someone in a group is immune to it, it becomes essentially useless. Although an genius is successful, an unaffected person can work to wake someone from the Genjutsu state, which makes it difficult to trust while fighting against several opponents.

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Could Genjutsu have been better?

It is unclear what can be done to strengthen the concept of genutsu and raise it with the rest of the Ninja combat style. One possible answer would be to allow Genjutsu to have more effect on the physical world. This concept is briefly affected in the series through the Kurama clan Kekkei Genkai. In rare cases, members of the Kurama clan were able to develop such powerful genutsu that it can actually physically harm the victim's body by tricking the brain into thinking it was real.

While this ability seems to be a gaming exchange for Genjutsu, it was strongly nerfed by its disadvantages, which essentially saw the genutsu user become a monster and lose control of themselves. This loss of control also resulted in losing the ability to fully control genutsu. If there had been more genius abilities that could go beyond the mental and influence the real world without enormous costs, maybe we have seen genutsu use much more throughout Naruto series.

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Naruto

Release date

October 2, 2002

Network

Adult swimming