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Originally Posted by Hunter
The case of Itachi is more difficult to pinpoint within the story because of the author intent, I was only half joking about his fabulous ponytail. Contrarily to Danzo who is obviously an antagonist painted with great length by the author as an evil sob; Itachi (this pristine example of peaceful, loving and gentle man!) is meant to be seen as a tragic hero whose terrible deeds and crazed fucked up decisions cannot be held against him because he had no choice blah blah blah. And because he cannot possibly be blamed, the two others parties have to be unrealistically complete morons who systemically made the worst possible calls for decades until they reached the point of no-return - a point that was never even reached realistically speaking which is why the author doesn't really dwell into the specifics of the coup.
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I feel like kishi could have fixed the entire itachi story by changing the rules of Kotoamatsukami to be able to be used more often and danzo having simply used it on sarutobi and itachi. then just insert a reason why danzo would have wanted sasuke to live (for his own purposes most likely like having a powerful sharingan to steal in the future or for orochimaru as part of a trade or something) and bam! no plotholes and itachi gets no blame since he was under a genjutsu even more powerful than his own