Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3291244-20140722194012/@comment-945885-20140723090052

Shakhmoot wrote: FF-Suzaku wrote:

The bottom left says that there will be some sort of Naruto exhibition in 2015.

Other things of note:

The Last: Naruto the Movie will be the first entry in the, and will be the first new Naruto movie in two years.

Kishimoto is the character designer and chief story supervisor.

There will be a 15 sec teaser during next week's episode of Shippuden, and the full trailer will start appearing in theaters on August 1.

The official website will be open in five days -- when this magazine actually hits newsstands in Japan.

Everything else is too small for me to make out. It appears to be fairly typical magazine hype, commenting on the concept art and recapping the press release they were given.

Regarding the New Era Project stuff. Does that mean we'll get a Part III storyline in the movie? Not necessarily a Part III (FWIW, the Japanese terminology has always indicated that there would be only two parts, as they're generally referenced in terms of halves; Part I is the first half and Part II is the last half), though the character designs do give the impression that Naruto will be at least a couple years older in it.

Right now there's not enough information to discern what this "new era" means for the franchise. Assuming that Part II is indeed coming to a close and there won't be a Part III, it could mean an end to the manga with the series living on through animation, video games, books, etc.

If you look at the Dragon Ball franchise, for example, it had an anime sequel (GT), a few non-canon movies and TV specials, countless video games, some loosely-related spinoffs, and eventually a couple canon prequels and new a sequel film series supervised by Toriyama.