Board Thread:Naruto News/@comment-2156952-20150115130338/@comment-17623-20150119232654

Seelentau wrote: Well, canon is normally defined as anything that is included in the main story. Kakashi Gaiden is canon, for example. Anything that expands from the main story is not canon, for example movies, side stories and filler.

As least that's how I understand it. What the author says about it is not that relevant. The tenth movie isn't canon because Kishimoto said so, but because it's included in the main story as chapter 699.5 and the events in the movie are part of the plot (same as Kakashi Gaiden).

1) That hardly makes sense and mainly depends on what you one considers "included" and "expands". For example I could very easily argue that Kakashi Gaiden and the Last merely "Expand" on the the main story, while let's say something like the Tenten filler episode is "included" into the main story as it gives us a look into a character whom is mostly ignored. To be honest, I quite enjoy how Star Wars had always played the Expanded Universe; everything works until it directly contradicts something or until the Author directly states otherwise.

2) What canon means doesn't help my complaining about these novels which, so far, you seem to the be the only one able to tell me that exist. Which they apparently do.