Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-4700229-20141027210331/@comment-945885-20141105212810

Ten Tailed Fox wrote: @FF-Suzaku: My point was, it wasn't a Part III. Naruto, as we know it, is over. The miniseries would then be supplementary material (like the special manga chapters Kishi sometimes draws). Correct? Not exactly. I mean, we don't really have any details right now. But, if you want to get technical...

With what we know, if I were writing the wikipedia article, I'd probably call it a "miniseries sequel to Naruto, written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto."

The novel series is likely a canon gaiden side story.

Whereas something like "Movie 9: Road to Naruto the Movie" was a one-shot tie-in for Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie.

Other things, like the little gag manga that are in some of the fanbooks, or the Christmas yonkoma he did last year in Weekly Shonen Jump, are more concretely omake (bonus/supplementary material) and obviously non-canon.

The one-shot pilot manga Naruto (note: distinguished by not having the katakana subtitle) was obviously a prototype for the series, and not in any way canon.

Rock Lee's Springtime of Youth and Uchiha Sasuke's Sharingan Chronicles are non-canon spin-off gag manga.

If you want to get technical.