Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4521917-20150810051444/@comment-5936871-20150810060257

WindStar7125 wrote: All he did was draw the illustrations for the novel. It's like the anime. Kishi has little to no involvement in them. But they were listed as apart of the same timeline as his canon content, they're apart of a project that has been nothing but canon content. Kishimoto never officially said whether they're canon or not, but considering that they have been advertised alongside canon content and stated to take place in the same timeline as canon content. It doesn't make sense for them to be non-canon, the only counter argument is that Kishi didn't write them. Why does that make them non-canon though? I agree that the word of the original author is the highest form. But just because he doesn't say something is canon doesn't mean it's non-canon. The fact that he even allowed these hiden novels to be put in the same category as his canon content and that all of the spoilers on the movie keep saying that Shinki's mother is someone from the Gaara Hiden novel should prove that they're canon.