Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20180307110859/@comment-732150-20180307172816

Where do people keep getting that Kakashi appointed Naruto as jonin? Is this from those last Shippuden episodes? People have got to pay attention on what was actually said. Kakashi said he wanted to promote Naruto, provided he studied hard and so and such, which we were never shown to happen, or even mentioned, so there's no retconing anything here, it simply didn't happen. And about the chunin exam thing, I think it's pretty clear that what they meant is that Naruto never got promoted to chunin via an exam.