Board Thread:Fourth Databook/@comment-24577388-20141105025614/@comment-10330822-20141106000303

Elveonora wrote: Well, maybe someone should try asking what's up with all the errors. I mean, fans were complaining about Minato monument stone head, that got fixed with an apology even. So Kishi might as well fix the rest.

That's just it. Kishi mentioned that the chapter was full of inconsistency, not just the monument. If you read his entire apology report, he mentioned he wanted people to feel a connect to the past characters by putting one's we were familiar with in there. However, many of those shinobi were still in the Academy, and had no business being at the exam at that time. Kakashi's generation wasn't like Naruto's, where everyone graduated at the same time and took the Chunin Exam together. In Kakashi's generation you had people graduating randomly out of the Academy and taking the Chunin Exam sometimes years after their graduation.

Besides, doesn't it bother you that we disregard all of that data in the first books simply because of one chapter? One chapter that Kishi has even admitted was full of errors? If that is the case, why are we even bothering filling in all of this data from the fourth book, when none of it was ever given in the manga.