Talk:The Last: Naruto the Movie

Trivia
I replaced one of the trivia descriptions with "This film has been classified as "chapter 699.5". Although, Masashi Kishimoto (author of the manga) did not write it.". This is accurate and a more fair description. If you consider this movie as "canon" thats fine but its really up to interpretation. Canon = written by the author/part of the official story. This movie is neither written by Kishimoto, or a part of the manga. Its an SP film. It was labeled as chapter 699.5, but all Kishimoto said was that it "has connections to the manga as much as possible.". (Clear Waters (talk) 00:33, June 28, 2015 (UTC))
 * He created the lore, characters, designs and approved the script after requesting several rewrites, so yes, he was as involved as it gets.--Elve Talk Page 02:11, June 28, 2015 (UTC)


 * And Last is Canon because: "Canon = written by the author/part of the official story." from manga continuation(chapter 700 and Gainden) it's considered as occurred event. So it's Canon, no matter what your personal feelings are. ./ Rage gtx (talk) 02:15, June 28, 2015 (UTC)
 * Na. The canon is the original publication, in our case the manga. This movie was called "chapter 699.5", which makes it canon. It's basically a movie-chapter. • Seelentau 愛 議 12:19, June 28, 2015 (UTC)


 * I was playing Final Fantasy at the time and I neglected to add a reasoning, well a good reasoning behind my revert. Basically removing what was there and replacing with that one line, while not wrong, did remove a bunch of other information. Which is why I made it a point to add that Kishimoto made the story concept and what not, while providing the actual writer for the film.--TheUltimate3 Akimichi Symbol.svg (talk) 13:27, June 28, 2015 (UTC)


 * @Seelentau no, that's original source. Canon in literature(and in creation as whole) it's something that considered as legitimate by original source or author and not necessarily of same type - not always manga in Naruto's case. (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/canon - ninth definition: a list of the works of an author that are accepted as authentic). But essentially you are right tho. ./ Rage gtx (talk) 14:46, June 28, 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, but the anime, novels, movies and all that stuff are spin-offs. Only the manga is the original source. If we were talking about Pokémon, for example, there would be more than one canon (anime canon, game canon, manga canon). • Seelentau 愛 議 14:54, June 28, 2015 (UTC)

Uh, if author involvement or recognition by the author is part of defining canon, how does Road to Ninja fit in all this? Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 18:46, June 28, 2015 (UTC)

But wasn't Kishi involved in Road to Ninja too? Wouldn't that make it "canon" just like The Last? And it doesn't matter if Kishi was involved, bottom line is he didn't write the script and its not part of the official canon story, which is the manga and the manga only. It doesn't matter if Kishi approved the script. Didn't he approve the novels too? Whatever. I'm adding to the trivia that he didn't write the film. Thats fair and accurate. (Clear Waters (talk) 19:41, June 28, 2015 (UTC))

Its just ridiculous if my thing of stating that Kishimoto didn't write it gets deleted... (Clear Waters (talk) 20:10, June 28, 2015 (UTC))

Read again, he:
 * 1) Created the lore (Otsutsuki stuff)
 * 2) Character backgrounds and designs (I'm sure Toneri isn't Studio Pierrot creation)
 * 3) Approved the script after requesting several rewrites (Meaning his input was great and he had the final word)

He pretty much wrote half of it, if he had written it alone by himself, we still would have gotten Toneri, Hamura and all that stuff, just the events would have unfolded differently.--Elve Talk Page 20:44, June 28, 2015 (UTC)

Writing a script and approving a script are two very different things. But whatever. I'm not gonna waste my time with an edit war on Narutopedia. (Clear Waters (talk) 14:54, June 29, 2015 (UTC))
 * Anything declared canon by the author is canon.--Elve Talk Page 16:17, June 29, 2015 (UTC)

I think the whole logic that "If the original author didn't write it, then it's non-canon" is stupid. If the author declared it as being canon, and fully approved of it and made no indication that it was non-canon, on top of being heavily involved in it and even bothering to tell us where it fits into the overall canon timeline placement of the series (See the timeline placement list for Chapter 699, The Last, Chapter 700, the novels, ect,) then it's canon. Regardless of our own personal opinions or confusion on the topic. --Legendary Super Saiya-Jin 4 (talk) 17:57, June 29, 2015 (UTC)