Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-32832770-20170812151353/@comment-734582-20170819092854

Mr. Grave wrote: Kishimoto didn't give a shit about fillers or whether the anime watchers were caught up yet. The Last Naruto The Movie was hailed as Chapter 699.5 meaning it was a continuation of the manga not the anime and we did see SPSM in the manga. Besides, it was a movie - they were not having a shortage in neither animators nor budget and could have easily animated SPSM without prior basis. It's not because of the fillers. The Last was pretty quickly after the revelation of SPSM. Keep in mind that a movie can easily take a year or more to animate, and Naruto's chakra mode is fairly heavily featured. Unlike Sasuke's or Kakashi's appearance (which could easily have been animated late in the process), it's likely that The Last production didn't have enough time to include SPSM and so continued with the Kurama mode design. Note for instance that Naruto's immunity to TSB erasure IS featured (He moves against Toneri's Golden Sword, despite the fact that it was made of TSB's and in a normal Kurama mode would've been utterly annihilated).