Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-28942958-20190203125106/@comment-11813596-20190204073656

So Ohnoki's really dead, huh.

Fonselot wrote: I was expecting that Team 7 would recover their genin rank with some kind of epic adventure, or with some Kakashi intervention with his motto "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are trash, that's true, but those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash"...

Anyway, Ino-Shika-Cho also broke the rules and they were not punished at all...

They did start out from a mission to retrieve them which turned into going alongside them and were able to communicate to people about what they did (Moegi, Shikamaru), so maybe it was something else when it came to them.

Steveo920 wrote: I hate with when different material contradict each other. He is dead in the anime, but alive following these events in the novel

The novel happened before the Muninja Bandits Arc.

The timeline is kinda confusing now. Ohnoki appears in Shikamaru Shinden, but the events of that story happened before and after the Muninja Bandits Arc. Shikamaru Shinden is a part of the Naruto Shinden novel series, which includes the Family Day novel that we'll see in the next anime episode. Though the novels in the series aren't arranged in chronological order, meaning IF the Shikamaru Shinden gets an anime adaptation, then Ohnoki being alive can be justified since that story should have happened before he died.

Both the anime and the manga are done with the Versus Momoshiki Arc, so is the anime ahead of the manga or maybe the anime is taking place after the Muninja Bandits Arc but before either the Ao or the Kawaki Arc?