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Since this is a huge issue at the moment after more than 5 years of being analyzed as a feat, I decided to re-analyze the feat and noticed something interesting about it.
The attack called Storm Release: Light Fang creates, according to databook, a beam of light that the user swings at a foe and is incapable of blocking/evading (paraphrased, don't argue the semantics of translation since I included both).
Now the interesting part of this is the fact that the beam of 'light' that the Storm Release (note, not Yin-Yang release which actually manipulates light and darkness) creates, when swung, notably and definitively bends:
Note that a straight line from Madara's mouth along the path of the beam from its point of origin is off-track by the termination point of the beam
From the bottom of the beam, you get a similar result. The beam has a demonstrable arc to it when swung, something a beam of light should not do.
For those wishing to utilize the anime as evidence of it being a beam and not bending, well that has its own issues, namely this:
The beam dissipates at random, haphazard points along the beam, rather than terminating from its point of origin outward . A beam of light being shut off does not dissipate like this, ever.
Per the resources for what constitutes light being light on this wiki itself, the page for that being here , an attack must fit a few of 5 criteria to be definitively called light:
1. The beam refracts in a new material, such as a liquid or...
2. The beam reflects off a material that it can be expected to, such as a non-magical mirror
3. The beam is called lightspeed by reliable sources
4. It is stated to be made of photons or light itself, again by a reliable source
5. It has its origin at a realistic source of light, such as a camera
For those arguing it is indeed light, the beam only fits one of these criteria, that of being stated to be light itself, with the source being a databook.
An attack can NOT fit any of the following 3 criteria, since if it does it cannot be light:
1. It is shown at different speeds in the same material
2. It is tangible and can be interacted with physically by normal humans
3. They do not travel in straight lines (unless you can prove refraction/reflection, see above)
The Light Fang, as shown, fits one of these criteria solidly, that of 'do not travel in straight lines' due to the curve. Arguably, per anime, it also fits 'shown at different speeds in the same material' due to dissipating at a different rate along the beam when terminated.
To sum up:
1. Light Fang bends in the manga when swung by Madara
2. Light Fang utilizes Storm Release, which is not the jutsu related to manipulating light
3. Light Fang dissipates at varying speed in the anime
4. Light Fang's only support for being light is a databook statement
5. Per wiki guidelines, Light Fang cannot be made of light given the above points and their context
The attack called Storm Release: Light Fang creates, according to databook, a beam of light that the user swings at a foe and is incapable of blocking/evading (paraphrased, don't argue the semantics of translation since I included both).
Now the interesting part of this is the fact that the beam of 'light' that the Storm Release (note, not Yin-Yang release which actually manipulates light and darkness) creates, when swung, notably and definitively bends:
Note that a straight line from Madara's mouth along the path of the beam from its point of origin is off-track by the termination point of the beam
From the bottom of the beam, you get a similar result. The beam has a demonstrable arc to it when swung, something a beam of light should not do.
For those wishing to utilize the anime as evidence of it being a beam and not bending, well that has its own issues, namely this:
The beam dissipates at random, haphazard points along the beam, rather than terminating from its point of origin outward . A beam of light being shut off does not dissipate like this, ever.
Per the resources for what constitutes light being light on this wiki itself, the page for that being here , an attack must fit a few of 5 criteria to be definitively called light:
1. The beam refracts in a new material, such as a liquid or...
2. The beam reflects off a material that it can be expected to, such as a non-magical mirror
3. The beam is called lightspeed by reliable sources
4. It is stated to be made of photons or light itself, again by a reliable source
5. It has its origin at a realistic source of light, such as a camera
For those arguing it is indeed light, the beam only fits one of these criteria, that of being stated to be light itself, with the source being a databook.
An attack can NOT fit any of the following 3 criteria, since if it does it cannot be light:
1. It is shown at different speeds in the same material
2. It is tangible and can be interacted with physically by normal humans
3. They do not travel in straight lines (unless you can prove refraction/reflection, see above)
The Light Fang, as shown, fits one of these criteria solidly, that of 'do not travel in straight lines' due to the curve. Arguably, per anime, it also fits 'shown at different speeds in the same material' due to dissipating at a different rate along the beam when terminated.
To sum up:
1. Light Fang bends in the manga when swung by Madara
2. Light Fang utilizes Storm Release, which is not the jutsu related to manipulating light
3. Light Fang dissipates at varying speed in the anime
4. Light Fang's only support for being light is a databook statement
5. Per wiki guidelines, Light Fang cannot be made of light given the above points and their context