Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-44437908-20200507051002/@comment-6769189-20200510192622

Ninja Of War wrote: LegionZero wrote:

IIRC that wasnt part of New Era. The ma ga and the anime were not running concurrently at that time either IIRC viz media and shonen jump approved of those episodes. And isn't the New Era project making all the Otsutsuki relevant now?

LegionZero wrote:

The official timeline put out makes the manga the canon version of events. Additions/alterations in the Naruto anime are not canon You can't tell a user what is or isn't canon. Viz and shonen jump acknowledge the anime. Check the timeline Chaptees 1-700 are on there, not the anime.

And they havent acknowledged those episodes in anyway way. You can try to spin it but the company flatout stated the manga is the canon version of the events.

Its debatable of the anime that was in production a decade before New Era is part of New Era