Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1018594-20150402131426/@comment-25495390-20150403134745

Wut? No, Kishi hasn't got jack crap to do with the anime. Literally nothing. Fillers are filler for a reason, they're things that the animators made up themselves, they have nothing to do with Kishimoto.

Calm down, in the anime/manga industry, actually gaining the approval of the creator of a series is nothing unusual. In fact, it's needed at least once, otherwise you would violate the copyrights of the season. In this case, I think Kishi and his managers gave the scriptwriters of Studio Pierrot a lot of space to do their own thing, so that the animators can turn it into reality. But saying that he has (or at least at one point had) absolutely no impact on the anime is dense itself.