Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25319479-20160428105912/@comment-25122992-20160430201731

JouXIII wrote: ^ There is no such thing as "canon-filler". There's canon(manga and databooks) and fillers(basically anime-only stuff from Part I and Part II). Unless Kishimoto himself makes them canon(like with manga versions of Kiba and Raiga), fillers are not canon and thus don't really matter in the end. You didn't answer for what they doesn't matter. For the end of the series? By that logic, we aren't supposed to watch anime at all because "everyone knows the ending and it's useless to watch it again". Or it doesn't matter personally for you? We still watch the stuff and have fun, so try to forget everything else and enjoy it as well. Besides, if there aren't going to be a lot of condradictions with the manga in Kaguya's fillers, canon/uncanon issue won't really matter cause it's the original material of the anime.

Also, I think about Anbu Kakashi arc and Itachi's acr as not being poor-done, but rather poorly placed - the former one was a continuation of the Obito's "turning to the dark side" flashback and wasn't supposed to tell about Kakashi at all and the latter almost wasn't connected with the ongoing events (it's hard to believe that Itachi's past could be represented as Sasuke's flashback, given that Itachi had no time to tell him all the stuff). Although the content isn't completely brilliant and has some contradictions with the manga, overall it should be considered as a nice extention of the "canon" story. In turn, Kaguya's past can be perfectly placed into BZ recordings he showed Naruto and Sasuke. And I'm 99% sure it'll be done this way.