

**Naruto's Nine Tails Chakra Mode** :  
![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/d8CMam.jpg)

**Naruto's Tailed Beast Mode** :

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/31hLMm.png)

The change in the appearance is very clear.  

**Minato**

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

Minato's Nine Tails Chakra Mode and Tailed Beast Mode (when he can use Kurama
avatar) appearance remains the same. Only his pupils change. So why didn't his
shroud get a new design like Naruto's?


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Why didn't Minato's shroud change when he used Tailed Beast Mode?


I think it's because when the nine tails was split into two halves, so was
it's ability to transform into Tailed Beast Mode. Yang Kurama (the one Naruto
has) has to go Kurama Mode prior to going into Tailed Beast Mode where as Yin
Kurama (the one Minato has) has to go straight into Tailed Beast Mode. When
both halves of Kurama are combined into the original form, they gain the
ability to go into Tailed Beast Mode however they want (either straight from
Nine Tails Chakra Mode or from Kurama Mode).


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I think that it's because Minato has better chakra control than naruto if you
look at the pics the first version(nine tails chakra mode) he looks like he's
having trouble controlling the chakra whereas in the second (tailed beast
mode) one its not a problem I would assume this is because when he's in nine
tails chakra mode he had to take the chakra by force from the nine tails
(episode 245)and in Tailed Beast Mode they are acting more as a team (episode
500). While he might have trouble since it's commonly known that Naruto's
chakra control is not too great Minato became the 4th Hokage so I would assume
he has good control since I doubt he had tons of chakra he could just throw
around like Naruto can so he could probably refine his without teaming up with
the nine tails. Its been a while since I watched Naruto though so this might
not be totally accurate but as far as I can remember this would explain the
difference.


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According to [the wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Nine-Tails_Chakra_Mode),
the difference between "Nine-tails Chakra Mode" and "Kurama Mode", the one you
called "Tailed Beast Mode" is simply that Naruto learned Kyuubi's name:
Kurama. At that point, Kurama wasn't just lending Naruto chakra, they were
fighting together.

I would guess that Minato never learned to fight together with Kurama or
ALWAYS fought together with it, so Kurama never changed Minato's appearance.

The wiki actually defined "Tailed Beast Mode" when the Jinchuuriki assumes
their tailed beast's form:

![](https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/naruto/images/7/7a/Naruto_and_Minato_TBM.png/revision/latest?cb=20141009133510)

This is both Naruto and Minato in "Tailed Beast Mode" performing a combined
_Rasengan_.


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This is because he already has a cloak. The shroud of chakra forms as a cloak
and it can't do that if there's already a cloak to begin with.

Think about it, everytime they have a cloak on the transformation hasn't
changed them.

The chakra can't make it's own form so it just ends up raping itself around
what's already there.


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