Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20180830115624/@comment-732150-20180902181053

Mr. Grave wrote: Mrsunrider wrote: What are the inconsistencies? Mostly timeline inconsistencies. The war was supposed to be over like 15 years ago, but several characters have given different numbers at the start of the series. Onoki's age in this episode is given to be 100 even though he should be no older than 94 or 96. Then we have overlap with what we thought were non-canon episodes of Naruto Shippuden like Naruto supposedly having killed Raiga in the Kiri arc, the whole Kakashi-Sukea double identity thing while also negating some of the other filler aspects of Naruto such as Naruto's rise to jonin and others that I can't recall off the top of my head.

I'd be okay with the Boruto anime canonizing Naruto filler if they actually went into more details in trying to justify how/where that fillers fits in.

Naruto never rose the jonin, neither in the manga nor in the anime, according to all currently available sources. Way too many remember that scene with him and Kakashi at the end of Shippuden wrong. Kakashi didn't say that Naruto would become jonin in two years time, he said he could be a jonin in two years time, provided he fulfilled the criteria he listed. It was a conditional statement. The biggest proof against it is that in the official booklet about The Last, which is set in the two years time Kakashi mentioned, Naruto's rank in the movie is explicitly given as genin still. I've lost count of how many times I've had to explain this.