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How Did Sasuke Get Itachi'S Eyes In Shippuden?

Finally caught up with Naruto Shippuden, but Sasuke gaining Itachi's Mangekyō Sharingan was confusing. Did he really have to transplant Itachi's eyes permanently?
2026-04-16 10:37:50
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Tatecia Cunningham
Tatecia Cunningham
In Shippuden, it isn't actually established that Sasuke received Itachi's eyes. Itachi's Amaterasu trap activated after he died, and Itachi's ocular power is transferred to Sasuke. Later, when Sasuke's own Mangekyō Sharingan evolves into the Eternal Mangekyō, it is established that this occurred after Kabuto had given Sasuke Itachi's eyes in the Fourth Great Ninja War. The concept of someone else forcibly taking your eyes for their own gain in order to become stronger in order to exact revenge is an idea also found in the fantasy romance, ‘My Mate Stole My Eyes For My Sister’. It's a story where the protagonist's brutal betrayal by her closest ally and the supernatural gift she helped her create with leads to a life of revenge, making her personal tragedy the main storyline.
2026-08-03
Charlotte
Charlotte
So that Sasuke-Itachi eye transfer arc was pretty cool, I thought. All that time he’d thought Itachi had killed their whole clan in a fit of cruelty, but no, he’d actually done it to stop a mass coup, and had been quietly protecting Konohagakure ever since. So in their final battle, Itachi deliberately weakens himself of illness and lets Sasuke kill him. Then, as Sasuke is standing over Itachi’s lifeless body, he pokes Sasuke’s forehead, just as he’d done when they were kids. The ocular power that remains in Itachi’s eyes is then transferred to Sasuke, and Sasuke’s eyes are later severely injured in his battle with Danzo. White Zetsu then mentions that Itachi’s corpse still has fresh eyeballs, which are then transplanted into Sasuke’s eyes, giving him the Amaterasu and eternal Mangekyou power of the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.

What’s interesting is that Itachi wanted Sasuke to surpass him without having to follow in his dark footsteps. But in order for that to happen, Sasuke would have to literally take Itachi’s eyes. This arc encapsulates many of the themes found in the Naruto series, including inherited burdens and twisted brotherly love.
2026-04-18
Julia
Julia
People unfamiliar with the series often are oblivious to how this plot point was foreshadowed. In the early parts of Shippuden, the first time Sasuke encounters Itachi again, there is this rather creepy image of Itachi’s reflection peering out of the back of Sasuke’s eyes. The Uchiha Stone Tablet is mentioned repeatedly throughout the series detailing how the eyes evolve. Itachi’s Amaterasu trapped in Sasuke’s eyes served a dual purpose to protect him from Obito’s mind control, and also to set up the future for Sasuke when he would require new eyes. It was a beautifully interwoven plot thread followed by the writers over hundreds of episodes of story.
2026-04-20
Isaac
Isaac
A very underrepresented element of Sasuke wearing Itachi’s eyes is the psychological load that they carry. Those are the eyes of Itachi who watched their parents die, the eyes of Itachi who enabled and witnessed each of the countless atrocities he committed for the sake of the village. The version of Susano’o that Sasuke creates later is that of Itachi-armored. For a time it is unclear whether or not Sasuke is really seeing things, but eventually he covers his face and admits that ‘he sees everything now’. The series never clarifies whether he literally saw Itachi’s memories, or if he only gained some insight into their nature, but in either case carrying Itachi’s eyes around is a symbol of the conflicting legacy that Sasuke inherited from Itachi – the power, but not the purposes for which they were used; eventually rejecting them in order to find his own way to protect the village.
2026-04-21
Xavier
Xavier
And from a tactical standpoint, this follows the standard ‘Naruto’ power scaling rules. So regular Mangekyou Sharingan users like Sasuke lose their sight because they over use it. This also applies to borrowed Sharingan like Kakashi’s. The solution to this is to fuse two Mangekyou from blood relatives to form Eternal Sharingan. This is why after Sasuke’s vastly overused Amaterasu vision starts to fail him against Danzo, Obito (in hiding to watch) can expound upon the dirty little secret of the Uchiha clan – to upgrade their Sharingan power they have to steal the eyes of siblings. So Itachi’s corpse makes a perfect donor as he is a direct brother of Sasuke. We don’t get to see the (no doubt very bloody) surgery, but we do see the end result of it as Sasuke comes round to find that Itachi’sSharingan is swirling around within his own eyes. Note also that this is why Madara took the eyes of his brother, Izuna from generations prior.
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