Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-3279282-20171016184901/@comment-2112031-20171020091730

Seelentau wrote: No, it doesn't lmao. Or do you seriously think that the movies are canon because Pakura etc appeared there first? Actually, Pakura did not appear in The Will of Fire. They used the same character design, but the character was supposed to be someone else.

TheKillman wrote: So wait. If the Anime is primary canon, then what about possible anime/manga contradictions (e.g. Naruto Gaiden?). Are we still going with a Manga>Anime hierarchy? I'm pretty sure that the Manga is still the primary canon. But we're now in a somewhat unusual situation given how much the Manga and Anime are interconnected.

Raiga is a rather interesting case. He himself is a canon character, but the filler arc in which he was introduced is still considered to be anime-canon (which, functionally, translates to "as canon as any given fan wants it to be").

It should be noted, however, that Raiga had to have survived the Swordsmen's battle with Might Duy, otherwise his daughter Buntan would have to have been born prior to that battle and would be older than Naruto.