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FF-Suzaku wrote: They're arguably more official than the anime, considering that they're published directly by Shueisha with some degree of direct editorial supervision, while the anime is handled by another studio with its own writers, directors, story board artists, and character designers. The issue is we have no evidence of direct editorial supervision. As far as we know it's all done by Shueisha's own team with no input from Kishimoto's team.