Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25319479-20160303111202/@comment-25622409-20160303135217

Canon this canon that. Why cant people realize that while writing Naruto, Mr.Kishimoto must have been an extremely busy man. And as such, he neither had the time, nor energy, to put everything he thought about the characters, i.e their back and side stories, in the form of a manga, which is infinitely more difficult to draw that simply write in story form.

Its impossible that any if the novels were written without at least an overview by Kishi.