How Did Itachi Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan Affect His Health?

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Oscar
Oscar
2025-11-10 06:12:36
Tonight I mulled over Itachi's decline and how the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan factored into it, and honestly it’s a bittersweet mix of mechanics and tragedy. The core thing I always come back to is that the Eternal Mangekyō stops the specific, progressive blindness that comes from overusing the Mangekyō. Once Itachi received another Uchiha's eyes and awakened the Eternal form, his eyes no longer marched toward the permanent blindness that plagued many Mangekyō users. That meant clearer vision, restored visual prowess, and the ability to use those signature ocular techniques without the ticking clock of losing sight. On a mechanical level, the transplant removed the genetic/physiological wear that repeated Mangekyō activations caused, so he no longer faced that particular deterioration.

That said, having the Eternal Mangekyō wasn't a magical cure-all for his health. Itachi was still visibly ill—coughing, weakened stamina, and ultimately terminal. Those symptoms point to a separate, systemic disease that the Eternal eyes couldn't fix. Also, ocular upgrades don't erase the enormous chakra cost and physical toll of repeatedly launching top-tier techniques: Susanoo, Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi—these demand massive energy and strain the whole body. Even with Eternal eyes preventing blindness, overreliance on Susanoo and persistent genjutsu can deplete stamina, hasten exhaustion, and exacerbate an already fragile body. There's also the psychological and strategic layer: Itachi deliberately suppressed himself and kept his condition secret, sometimes using limiting tactics so that his final confrontation with Sasuke would go the way he planned. So his death was a combination of preexisting illness, battle wear, and his own choices rather than the Eternal Mangekyō failing him.

I like to think of the Eternal Mangekyō as a bitterly pragmatic gift: it bought him freedom from one fate—blindness—so he could keep serving his purpose, but it couldn't buy back time or health. That tension between technical advantage and personal sacrifice is what keeps his arc haunting and, to me, painfully beautiful.
Victoria
Victoria
2025-11-10 07:00:25
I got into Naruto as a teenager and the way Itachi’s Eternal Mangekyō plays into his decline always felt like one of those nerdy-but-sad ironies. In short: the Eternal Mangekyō halts the blindness that comes from successive Mangekyō use, so Itachi didn’t go blind from his dojutsu anymore. That meant he could keep using ocular techniques without the specific degeneration that ordinary Mangekyō users suffer.

Still, it didn’t heal his body. He was suffering from a chronic, fatal illness and the massive chakra drain of techniques like Susanoo and Amaterasu still wore him down. Add to that the fact he intentionally held back in fights to manipulate outcomes, and you get a picture where the Eternal eyes removed one catastrophic risk but didn’t stop the overall physical collapse. For me, that mix of technical fix and human fragility is why his story hits so hard — visually unstoppable, but painfully mortal inside.
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