Originally posted by: AssertnFailure
Originally posted by: Ero-Fan
Well, if the kawarimi didn't look like you, at least for a little bit, would kinda defeat the purpose. Like in the first couple of episodes, Kakshi uses it when Sasuke threw shurikens at him. The illusion didn't go away until a couple of seconds after the log he was replaced with was hit. Probably acts like kage bunshin where a solid hit dispels the henge that was placed on the kawarimi. Same thing happened when Sakura used the jutsu when she was 'fighting' the sound 3 during the cuunin exam. The kawarimi didn't immediatly show itself after she was hit. Although I think in this case the monkeys were getting hit enough to dispel it almost immediatly. I woulda used kage bunshins to fool that ninja before I would use a henge on some dumb animal that won't even act like me. Then again, it is a filler.
Are you trying to be all scientific about it? They explained it pretty clearly in the first few eps. It seemed to me more like the delayed illusion effect was just done to look cool and keep the viewer in suspense.
Hehe, yeah, kinda. Got bored with this filler episode, so I came up with my own explanation. Besides, not like the episode really inspired anything else outta me.