

While fighting Orochimaru, Sandaime Hokage Hiruzen stated that a person killed
by Death Soul Reaper Jutsu will have his soul imprisoned in the Soul Reaper's
body for eternity and will be restless there. How can they be reanimated then?
And in the event that they are reanimated, what will happen when they are
released from reanimation? Will they go back to the Soul Reaper or will they
rest in peace?


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Can a person killed by Death Soul Reaper be brought back to life through Reanimation?


_Q. Sandaime Hokage Hiruzen stated that a person killed by Death Soul Reaper
Jutsu will have his soul imprisoned in the Soul Reaper's body for eternity and
will be restless there. How can they be reanimated then?_

A. They **CAN'T** be reanimated because their soul is not residing in the Pure
World.

It is clearly stated in the wiki page of [Impure World
Reincarnation](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning%3a_Impure_World_Reincarnation)(emphasis
mine),

> To perform this technique, the user must first acquire some of the DNA of
> the person they intend to reincarnate. Kabuto remarks that this basically
> amounts to grave-robbing, although blood stains or organs salvaged after the
> target's death also work. **The soul of the intended reincarnated must also
> reside in the pure world (浄土, jōdo); for example, those whose souls have
> been consumed by the Death God cannot be reincarnated. However, if it is a
> case where the souls are freed from inside the Shinigami, then a user of
> this technique is free to reincarnate them once again.**

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_Q. And in the event that they are reanimated, what will happen when they are
released from reanimation? Will they go back to the Soul Reaper or will they
rest in peace?_

A. Since they cannot be reanimated, they can't be released from it either.
Their souls stay in the Death Reaper stomach forever (or) or until they're
released by someone by cutting open the Death Reaper's stomach.


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Yes and no!

The Death Soul Reaper Jutsu (aka Dead Demon Consuming Seal) (aka Shiki Fūjin)
is a sealing technique. While the soul is sealed with the Death Gods belly, it
can not be resurrected using Impure World Resurrection.

However, like most sealing jutsu shown in the series, there is a way to
release the seal. This is done by the using the using the releasing jutsu
along with a particular mask from the Uzumaki clan. After the soul is
released, it is possible to revive them using Impure World Resurection as
shown by Orochimaru when he revived all the previous Hokage and his arms after
the Third Hokage had sealed them using Dead Demon Consuming Seal.

source:
[http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Dead_Demon_Consuming_Seal:_Release](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Dead_Demon_Consuming_Seal%3a_Release)


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It is true that the caster and the target that is the victim of the death
reaper seal cannot be reanimated. We get to know this when Kabuto explains the
mechanism of the Death Reaper seal.

[Please refer to this question for more
information](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4245/werent-the-1st-
and-2nd-hokage-sealed-forever?lq=1)

So the only event on which a person sealed using the Death Reaper can be
reanimated is if and only if the person has been released from the belly of
the death reaper.

Now, what happens if they are released from the reanimation? Well they simply
go back to the world of the dead where the soul of the dead resides. Since
after the belly of the death reaper is cut and the souls trapped there
released, the souls must go back to the world of the dead and only then can it
be summoned for reanimation.


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Reanimation is done by using person cells and bringing back their soul.
Reapers Death seal locks away the soul within reapers belly so soul cannot
escape. So Souls sealed by using reaper death seal cannot be reanimated. But
if the reapers belly is cut the souls sealed inside escapes and then they can
be reanimated as they are not locked up. It is clearly explained in the
narutos 'episode 365 : those who dance in the shadows'


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Yes because you need the Shinigami Mask to undo the dead demon consuming seal.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qkTWy.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qkTWy.jpg)


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