Originally posted by: Kineda
I cant believe people are seriously discussing Itachi going blind. It makes no sense all and if you look at the flow of the conversation it points to being more metaphorical in meaning than literal.

I thought Kakashi copied the mangekyou at first. But this seems rediculous.

Maybe an Anti Tsukiyomi sharingan technique?
First of all, as others have said the word they use means literal eyesight, not anything else. I can't read Japanese, so I'm going to go with that. We won't know for sure what Kakashi meant until a few chapters, so we can all assume whatever we want.

I can't believe that people aren't taking the concept that Itachi might be losing his eyesight seriously enough. It makes perfect sense. Given a technique that is THAT powerful and drains Itachi of all people that much, is it really that much of a stretch that it puts a huge strain on the body part where a huge amount of chakra is flowing into? I don't think so.

Think about Lee. His gate techniques release the restrictions on the flow of chakra but ultimately damage him over time. If the Mangekyou uses that much chakra from Itachi, there must be an enormous amount of chakra flowing through Itachi's eyes. That must put some sort of strain on them.

Maybe if all you Itachi fanboys would brown-nosing Itachi as closely as you do, maybe you might consider this as a possibility for Itachi to lose. He will probably lose sometime, he will probably have to given the direction the manga is moving in. Yeah, its a cheap way to finish off a character with Itachi's skills, but who is to say that Itachi couldn't still kick Naruto and Sasuke's asses if he goes completely blind. He was the ANBU leader LONG before he got the Mangekyou and do you really have that little respect for your idol to think that he'd be that considerably weakened by losing his vision? Just think of the old Zatoichi movies.

At least if he lost his eyesight completely and still won the majority of his battles, he'd be a more interesting character than Sasuke.