Until proven otherwise I'd say that was just bullshit. Or even if it wasn't, the zombies would likely run out of batteries or rot away otherwise in a short enough time. Besides, Kabuto seems to need to exert considerable effort to keep them in check and fighting instead of chatting and reminiscing, so without him, great many of them would be next to useless for the war.
How do they rot? They're made of dirt.Originally Posted by Kraco
Yeah but, wouldn't that be a good thing for the good guys?
"Hey! All our loved ones are back! They're just...hangin' out. But that's okay!"
They seem to be powered by human sacrifices. That is, a corpse inside that dirt is giving them energy. It's one of the benefits of this ultimate ninja technique that the user doesn't need to spend his own chakra to run multiple high level level ninja zombies - only a jinchuuriki could afford to do something like that for any significant amount of time. If nothing else, the corpse will rot away. Being covered by dirt full of bacteria and other life forms existing for the very purpose of breaking down cadavers only makes it that much faster. Once the body inside is rotten enough, I'd expect the resurrection to run out of juice and crumble away.
Yes, but when they can get completely obliterated by an attack and still reform from nothing, it's obvious that the state of the corpse inside is no longer relevant once the jutsu has been cast.
It also seems unlikely that the sacrifices chakra is being used to power the jutsu, since the sacrifices are usually total schmucks, but the zombies still have the chakra to perform kage-level techniques.
One more reason why they should run out of batteries soon: A nobody is being used to draw kage levels of chakra. Kind of like using flashlight batteries to run an electric chainsaw. It may run, but not for long.
As far as I can see, techniques in Naruto use chakra or are summoned living creatures using their own life force. These zombies are corpses with nothing inherent going for them and it was especially mentioned the necromancer doesn't need to spend his own chakra, so the only choice left is the sacrifice's life. Well, the very last choice would be a perpetual motion machine, but come on...
Which is exactly why I think their chakra and their lives in general have nothing to do with the sacrifices.
There's no way someone like Zaku possessed enough chakra to use the techniques the 1st Hokage was using against the 3rd.
Unless the spirits being reanimated are themselves providing the chakra.
As far as I can see, chakra IS spirit energy in Naruto. After all, Minato and Kushina were able to leave their spirits inside Naruto just by implanting their chakra in him.
Hell, Kushina's ghost was even still able to use jutsu against the Kyuubi, despite her being, you know...dead.
Yeah, she did it for a short while, and then vanished due to using all of what was left of the chakra she had managed to leave behind. That hardly suggests some ghost who never intended to leave chakra behind could power a corporeal body again.
If you reckon the sacrifice has got nothing to do with powering the zombies, then why have the sacrifices in the first place? Just take the piece of tissue containing the DNA and be done with the summoning. No need to secure a human to consume in the technique. The very fact it does require somebody to sacrifice tells me that's where the power is drawn.
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