Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-12509038-20150317020644/@comment-12509038-20150317195530

@NeedleJizo- I'll ask.

@Seelentau- I completely understand where you're coming from, but if I may, there are a few things I'd like to clear up.

First and foremost, I believe I mentioned in the beginning that this was not 100% confirmed, but merely an estimate based on someone who has experience in this field. All of this could happen, some of this could happen, or none of this could happen.

With that said, I don't want to tell you who it was I am conversing with because I want to respect their privacy. However, what I can tell you is that he lives in Japan (IDK where you got the idea he lives in the USA- unless you're referring about me talking to Date, which is actually the truth because I corresponded with him via his official twitter account, and that shouldn't be too hard to validate), he is very involved in the behind the scenes of anime production, and he has special connections to Studio Pierrot. Furthermore, I have known him for a few years now and I have asked his opinion on past events in the anime. He hasn't been right every time (it's impossible to be), but he has been close/right numerous times before (some good examples are the anime's production of #322, #345, #363, and #375- his predictions for that content were very similar to what we got, from the filler content down to the animators chosen to adapt the content). When it comes to anime, he is almost like how you are with translating- it's his passion and so he's just become very involved in it. Like I said, I'm not revealing his identity, but if you actually looked around some of the larger social media platforms (twitter, tumblr, YT, etc), it should be pretty easy to figure out who I'm talking to.

To be honest, I think there are a few things he mentioned that probably won't happen. For example (no matter how much I'd like to see it), they probably wouldn't have Naruto use the other Tailed Beasts powers or have Sasuke use Rinnegan abilities he has not displayed. However, depending on who the animator they get to adapt the section in the fight where filler could be added, he is saying that its not out of the realm of possibility that something like that could happen- especially if they got Wakabayashi or Matsumoto to do that part (who animated #167- and we all know how different that turned out to be from the manga).

Essentially, I just thought this would be something cool you guys might like to see. Again, not saying all of this would actually happen, but some if definitely will. And that was the point of this- just to show what may happen, not what will happen. Just something to talk about...