Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-44437908-20200507051002/@comment-6769189-20200511182557

Babyfriend1 wrote: The anime filler arcs are probably excluded because unlike with the novels you already know what order they occur in and also there are a ton of them which aren't important enough to be timeline-material. If they wanted filler considered canon, they would have just put the anime as a whole on the timeline, instead they have the manga