Comment from Anime Director Hayato Datte

[artondrius]

Translation from the interview:

Hayato Date:
When the 4th Ninja War began on TV, I never thought of how far Kishimoto's Manga continues for. As I have mentioned, TV cannot overtake Manga episode, It requires a TV original episode(aka filler). I asked Kishimoto many questions about the Kaguya/Indra/Asura arc too. When Kaguya/Indra/Asura arc is over, Naruto will come back to the Manga episode. It was a long way for 14 years.... The work has not been finished yet. But successive episode directors are coming back at the last chapter. Don't miss it!



It sounds like the good directors will indeed return for the final episodes of Shippuden

And also as you can see, he says he asked Kishimoto questions about this filler currently being mixed into the Kaguya arc. So some of the ideas in these filler episodes did come from Kishimoto.

 

[NextGenNinja]

Sounds good but still doesn't mean its canon.

 

[artondrius]

Sounds good but still doesn't mean its canon.

Well all it means isf the general IDEAS are canon, but of course Kishimoto didn't write any scripts for it.

But there is no way of knowing which ideas are his, and which ones are the anime.

 

[NextGenNinja]

Well all it means isf the general IDEAS are canon, but of course Kishimoto didn't write any scripts for it.

But there is no way of knowing which ideas are his, and which ones are the anime.

So all in all, still filler. Thanks for the share tho.

 

[Joon]

The Anime is still shitty, but I can't wait for these last episodes and end finale.

 

[guts2nevergiveup]

thx for the post!

 

[Marin]

Awesome!

 

[123fire]

I knew it!! But where's the full interview??

 

[123fire]

Translation from the interview:

Hayato Date:
When the 4th Ninja War began on TV, I never thought of how far Kishimoto's Manga continues for. As I have mentioned, TV cannot overtake Manga episode, It requires a TV original episode(aka filler). I asked Kishimoto many questions about the Kaguya/Indra/Asura arc too. When Kaguya/Indra/Asura arc is over, Naruto will come back to the Manga episode. It was a long way for 14 years.... The work has not been finished yet. But successive episode directors are coming back at the last chapter. Don't miss it!



It sounds like the good directors will indeed return for the final episodes of Shippuden

And also as you can see, he says he asked Kishimoto questions about this filler currently being mixed into the Kaguya arc. So some of the ideas in these filler episodes did come from Kishimoto.

Where's the full interview??