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For Kabuto, that loop is hell.

Kabuto represents the third option:

Kabuto’s "death episode" (spanning episodes 332-338 of Naruto Shippuden , climaxing with “The Great Reversal”) is not a story about a villain being struck down. It is a story about an identity being erased. It is a psychological horror wrapped in a medical drama, and ultimately, a Buddhist parable about the prison of the self. kabuto death episode

In the end, Kabuto Yakushi dies the same way he lived: quietly, in the dark, surrounded by ghosts. But unlike before, he finally knows who those ghosts are. For Kabuto, that loop is hell

But Itachi’s Izanami forces the cave to become a mirror. The walls reflect not Kabuto’s current power, but his past weakness. The loop shows him the exact moment he chose to stop feeling. And that is the real death: the death of his delusion. Here is where Naruto flips the script on traditional shonen storytelling. In most anime, when a villain is defeated, they either die or go to prison. Kabuto does neither. He survives Izanami, but he is a completely different person. It is a psychological horror wrapped in a

What do you think? Did Kabuto deserve the Izanami loop, or was it a cruel form of psychological torture? Let me know in the comments below.