Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-1512913-20161122142914/@comment-4912646-20161128050138

Elveonora wrote: Can you comment on this BeyondRed? http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:219212#16 Seems the author was just as confused about the Hagoromo/Ten-Tails/moon situation as the readers (and apparently Studio Pierrot) were. Black Zetsu says, and even seemingly shows a recording to back it up, that the Ten-Tails was made into the core of Chibaku Tensei when it battled the brothers. And in the film itself, we see young Hamura standing on the surface of the moon, but then again Toneri seems to narrate things out of order similar to how it's done in the novel. There's obviously no good in-universe reason for Toneri to believe the same incorrect version of events as Obito and Madara.

The movie must have been in production for some time before the manga ended, and it almost seems as if the writers were only given certain details about how events were going to unfold and had to fill in the blanks themselves. This could be part of why the movie depicts Naruto without Six Paths Sage Mode, as well as the fact that nothing in The Last ever acknowledges Kaguya's resurrection or how the war was resolved — it just has a passing mention that the Ten-Tails was revived. Of course, some of that also could have been done to not spoil the anime-only audience, but the movie's very existence kind of does that already.

Another strange thing I noticed upon rewatching parts of the movie is that, while the novel transcript I posted before implies the Tenseigan (vessel) was only made after Hamura's death, the movie shows him on his deathbed with both his and his clansmens' eyes all closed. Though just before that his spirit is depicted with his Byakugan intact, whereas all of the other spirits appear to be eye-less. Also, Toneri says the "several millenia" thing in the movie as well (at least in every translation I've seen), so it seems the "thousand year vow" wasn't literally one thousand years.