Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24048522-20191229052502/@comment-4912646-20200102062450

I suppose it is somewhat open to interpretation, given how Kaguya "merging" with the God Tree is only mentioned those two times. However, even if they really were meant to be separate, we can say with certainty that Kishimoto intended for the Ten-Tails to be the one that got sealed in the moon and not Kaguya, since it's said explicitly in both the manga and several places in the databook. So if the anime's version of events got such a massive plot point wrong, among other things, I don't really see a reason consider the rest of what those episodes show as accurate, at least when talking about the manga. It's obviously still "correct" within the anime continuity, since we saw it happen and all.