hand seals and whatnot

[Junichiro]

some one up there said it was to gather chakara to certain points, it did say that in some ep. for example swing you arm around in a circle. your blood rushes to the end, by hand motions/seals chakara goes to certain points

we all cant forget the fact that in tv only a sertain amount of time can be wasted to seals for moves

[kimunist]

wasted? i like the seals, it looks cool.


then again, i think they use seals for that matter...with some "practical" reason as well

[astronut]

i think they only do hand seals because it gives them a sense of superior feeling, when Gaara put his hands together.. Sasuke was like "wtf" <<- like that , i think seals are pretty important because it makes the opponent flinch, yet again, i think it gathers chakra up to your body

[kimunist]

not to mention it looks pretty cool too

(genin rank post)

[The Kyubi Naruto]

The water elemental no jutsu didn't require so many handseals. At least that's what I think. Remember when Zabuza said that Kakashi tricked him into choosing the seal he wanted. So I think Zabuza was just trying if he really could see his thoughts and made it like a game like rock, paper, scissors. Well not really but...

Don't know If what I just said was correct , but that's how I remember/see things.

And I guess some jutsus require many handseals and some less. I just think they won't bother to draw the same handseal twice. Or I don't know I haven't paid much attention to those handseals. But atleast there will always be the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu and Henge in which Naruto makes those seals.

And atronut, I just love those! They're so cute!

[Orion Guardian]

hmm if u remeber..naruto has to make 5 seals to make te summoning technique, but he _doing_ this seals is only shown two or three times.....they left the seals out to save time....

[The_Fourth]

I think that by performing a seal you distribute chakra to certain parts of the body depending the seal.

[Nagablade]

I always thought that using hand seals was just a way of accumalating chakra

[r3n]

maybe you can assign certain jutsus to a few or jst one hand seal, like how naruto only uses 1 hand seal to do shadow rep. now, wheras weve seen him use loads before. so obviously can assign the jutsus you need quickest or use most often to 1 hand seal.

this would be why gaara used loadsa of hand seals in 66-67, because he had no need to hurry so didnt bother assigning that jutsu to a shorter hand seal sequence. the same with zabuza, except i think that he may not have used the water dragon very often.

jst a theory kinda makes sense in my head.

[kimunist]

i think in the end, the hand seals are just meant for difficulty levels...

obviously, kage bunshin needs to be a quick skill, so it only needs one hand seal, but it is a jounin level jutsu since its only taught at that level.

the more basic skills i guess take more hand seals in order to prepare longer...

i still think a big reason they use hand seals is something to show they are casting a skill...because how weird is it if they just started using skills outta nowhere?

they need something to make it actually look like they worked and trained for the skill, and learning the order of the hand seals was it.

i think the more hand seals it is, the more complex the technique...

kage bunshin in actualality, is a very basic technique as to what it is, just a bunch of replications, rather than most of sasukes fire moves take like 5-10 hand seals, since they are complicated fire attacks.

same with the water dragon blast, its complicated summoning a animated water dragon to attack its oppoent.

[Masamune]

Kage bunshin requires more then one seal.
(to all who say so)

watch episode 15
8m:15

[kimunist]

i found out in episode 2, it explains why hand seals are done.

its just the fusing of spiritual energy with the physical, so the more complicated the move, the longer the fusing needs to be.

[TeLeKiNeSiS]

hmm...anyone notice how kawarimi no jutsu (the body replacement technique) didnt require any seals? i thought that was quite odd.