

I'm just wondering why the first and the second has white eyes and their faces
are clean no cracks?


CC BY-SA 3.0
2016-08-21T17:55:17.020
35933
2021-08-28T12:00:42.697
27868
question
naruto
Why Orochimaru's Edo tensei gives summons white eye but the recent edo tensei has the black eye?


When Orochimaru used that jutsu against 3rd Hokage, he hasn't mastered it yet,
which is why both 1st Hokare and 2nd Hokage were that weak. With weak I mean
they were not revived with all their power available for them to use.

Later, Kabuto mastered the jutsu, thus enabling him to summon the dead with
all their power available for them to use. It seems that this also makes their
appearance change quite a bit like you noted, in that they have different eye
color and cracks.


CC BY-SA 3.0
2016-08-22T03:53:39.537
35942
2016-08-22T03:53:39.537
7866
35933
answer


I think it's the same thing with Izanagi, Kishimoto didn't think of the future
while writing/drawing the earlier Manga, so it's just get retconned.

Here are comparison: ![First and Last Edo
Tensei](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3HFNn.jpg)

The first two looks like an emotionless, pale, living corpse. But in far-fat
later episodes/chapters, edo tensei are just living corpse that has black
eyeballs and can express emotions (you can see when the 'fail' edo tensei
reacts to their acquaintance, they talk just like human beings. they also can
allert their friend-now-enemy about the danger that will come).

I think it's just the way they differentiate living human and reanimated ones,
in case there's a new audience/reader.


CC BY-SA 4.0
2021-08-28T12:00:42.697
65496
2021-08-28T12:00:42.697
62185
35933
answer