Board Thread:Naruto News/@comment-1926479-20141105173733/@comment-945885-20141105191954

Elveonora wrote: If stated to be canon, we consider it canon. If does not, we don't. I really do have to point out that the Japanese don't really put a ton of weight on labeling things as canon. You can't really expect them to just say "it's canon." They're more likely to specify when something isn't canon, using terms like "an original story" or "another telling."

Seelentau wrote: ...I still say it's about one thing, not two. One series of side stories. I don't know. The top half is about a miniseries serialization, while the bottom half is about a series of gaiden spinoff novels that will be published under the Jump j Books imprint. Unless I'm mistaken, the only serializations j Books does is a handful of web novels on their website.