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Originally Posted by itachi-san314
couldn't the ground crumbling just be because of the space his body took up underground so it's like a little sink hole? he did a similar thing when he used 'whack-a-mole' jutsu against kakashi's search party. he didn't make any signs or anything. I could be wrong, but it just seems like the same phasing/teleportation technique since he appears in other places so fast. basically he teleports undergournd and then pops up causing the earth to break open and some to fall down into the space he was occupying
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That doesn't really make sense. Besides the fact that he shouldn't be able to drop off mines while phasing, when Tobi is phasing above ground he is only displacing air, which is easy for a body to do. But, if he was phasing and unphasing underground his body would be displacing dirt and rocks, something that is fair more difficult (if not impossible) to do.
To use basic teleportation/phasing logic (derived from every source that has teleportation/phasing as an ability), if you teleport into a solid piece of matter (or un-phase while in a solid piece of matter), then you die because your body either becomes part of the object you are moving into, or it is simply crushed.
To put it into perspective, in chapter 566 Tobi effortlessly slipped out of the ground without causing any disturbance. Why didn't he do that back during the Deidara battle?
(To be fair, Kishimoto never explicitly has Tobi mention this earth technique, but it has enough similarities to a known technique for the assumption to be made that it is the same earth technique.)
That being said, "Whack-a-Mole" was an anime-only jutsu for Tobi.
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Originally Posted by itachi-san314
edit: actually it still looks like a summoning to me, but oh well
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There isn't much to really compare the technique to, but similar kanji is used to describe the Sound Four's (confirmed) barrier ninjutsu and the one Tobi recently performed (I think there are other barriers that also use the same kanji). Specifically, both contain the characters 炎 and 陣 (flame and formation). Additionally, summoning requires blood (save for Pain's summons, which still have yet to be explained) or a seal which blood can be applied to or that already has blood in it.