Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20180830115624/@comment-5085906-20180903164344

@Omnibender I was making a point on how the Boruto anime seems to be picking some filler parts of Naruto like the Konoha Hiden shenanigans while leaving out others like the Naruto jonin part, which was clearly padding but a plot point nonetheless. I never said he was supposed to rise to have been a Jonin. And regardless of Kakashi's wording, are we gonna just assume that Naruto, the guy whose most endearing trait is persistence, just wimped out of advancing the ranks? They even made a deal out of it with Konohamaru quoting Naruto's pep talk on not cutting corners.

It feels to me like every individual writer who works in this series has his own idea of what is canon in Naruto and is just going with it.