Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-32554648-20180706173543/@comment-3441296-20180719071518

Seelentau wrote: "separate stories" =/= "canon"

Yes, I did. Your not entirely right. Its more like, in japan, if the work isn't explicitly done by the creator it is auto non-canon. And they don't really seem to care one way or the other for the most part. Also, they really seem to argue over it less.