He said it was canon on his word of approval, Kishi didn't really write much, the staff mostly did, befor publishing into a movie, they had show their work to Kishi, and it was oftenly revised it until Kishi finally approves it.
I don't say that they're not connected, I say that I don't accept Kishi "canonize" it like that, he had no part in the movie and he can't jsut say after so many years since its release, "I make it official" and as the guy above said, he only did the artwork in that novel, so he didn't even have any role in its plot to begin with. It's a filler novel based on a filler movie.
Meh it's not that Kishi can't keep the movies consistent with the main story. It's just that he doesn't want them to. He can pull it off right as seen with the Last wich is canon while the other ones were simply a cool and a fun what-if scenario. RtN didn't fit in the main story and yet it was epic.
Fact of the matter is...Kishimoto can do whatever he wants in regards to Naruto. If he says it's canon, then it's canon. We as fans/readers just have to accept this despite inconsistency.
No it's different. I accept that when Kishi works on something indirectly or directly, his material becomes canon but in this specific case he had nothing to do with the movie and as it was already stated, Kishi only did the artwork for the novel, he didn't even work on it so how can you say that it's canon? Secondly, I have nothing against fillers but it's just stupid to believe that this canon under any way. For me, it's just a sort of entertainment which I don't want to label in a specific way.
Naruto has shown the ability to construct one handed rasengans.
Just because the author decided to connect a couple of his works, that isn't a sign of anything. It's nothing more than a subtle way of getting people to buy another book.
