How Does Orochimaru's Immortality Work? *SPOILER*

[Leaf Shinobi]

Just wondering but how exactly does his forbidden jutsu work. I made it up to the end of the Sasuke Retrival Arc but it just seems that they never detail it as more than just "He can use it once ever 4 or 5 years and steal someones body?"?

Is that it?

[Kisame]

Just wondering but how exactly does his forbidden jutsu work. I made it up to the end of the Sasuke Retrival Arc but it just seems that they never detail it as more than just "He can use it once ever 4 or 5 years and steal someones body?"?

Is that it?


From what I'm aware of, yes.

[sasukefan]

i have a theory orochimaru wanted sasuke because he would be able to get madara's eyes by getting itachi's eyes while in sasuke's body so he would be immortal
that's my theory

[Black King]

He created his own universe that's inside him which is where he does a ritual to switch bodies.
Eventually the body decays or it rejects Orochimaru, causing him to have to switch again.
Yeah...3,4, or 5 years with each body. This is probably stuff you've already heard.

He's technically alive but he isn't. He just needs a body. Kind of like how Kakuzu needs a beating heart to live. :|

[deidara330]

It's three years.

[TheBlackChidori]

Yeah I always thought he wanted the Sharingan just so he could match Itachi, but now I realize that the true ninja he was worried about is Madara.

[TheBlackChidori]

Yeah I always thought he wanted the Sharingan just so he could match Itachi, but now I realize that the true ninja he was worried about is Madara.

[Vermillian]

Just wondering but how exactly does his forbidden jutsu work. I made it up to the end of the Sasuke Retrival Arc but it just seems that they never detail it as more than just "He can use it once ever 4 or 5 years and steal someones body?"?

Is that it?

Well when you die of natural causes it is because after so long something in your own body just stops working(properly), and also as you age your bones joints and muscles weaken. Now When you Implant your own soul into another, younger body You reset the timer on them effects making it so your body will never get old enough to die naturally, as well as never weaken due to age.

[Sabra]

Just wondering but how exactly does his forbidden jutsu work. I made it up to the end of the Sasuke Retrival Arc but it just seems that they never detail it as more than just "He can use it once ever 4 or 5 years and steal someones body?"?

Is that it?

Well when you die of natural causes it is because after so long something in your own body just stops working(properly), and also as you age your bones joints and muscles weaken. Now When you Implant your own soul into another, younger body You reset the timer on them effects making it so your body will never get old enough to die naturally, as well as never weaken due to age.

I believe you have correctly stated his theory in body switching, I'm not so sure about the process. We do know that he has a form of personal space that exist within his mind that is working on some form or other of genjustu that he uses to subjugate the target person and posses their body.

We also know that early on the person's personality remains in tact, but suppressed. Really Orochimaru is a kind of parasidic mind. He implants his personality into the body and mind of another, then mentally userps them to take control. This is why he failed with Sasuke, he simply could not overcome Sasuke's will to remain in control which he presume sense the same happened with Itachi that it's the Sharingan. I believe it has less to do with the Sharingan and more to do with the knowledge and power over genjutsu that comes with that perticular Kekkie Genki.

You can consider Orochimaru as a kind of psychic vampire, living off of the mind and body of another being to continue his personal survival. That said it is less a resurrection, or life sustaining Justu, and more just prolonging the inevitable as his parasitic nature appears to cause the body of his host to break down at a serverly progressed rate.