Oh just realized there's some other points that makes even the real world in the movie somewhat different from manga canon and also earlier than current storyline...
I was wondering why Naruto was drawn in Pierrot's movie poster like the way he looked at the start of part 2 and why Sakura's hair was as short as it was at the start of part 2 in the movie...
http://images.wikia....nime_poster.jpg Then there's issue of Naruto's birthday. I'm pretty sure it's not his 17th, but rather his 16th. (As he is only about midway through his 16th year now in the manga). The divergence from manga canon seems to happen right around the time of Jiraiya's death, which appeared to happen right around Naruto's 16th birthday (it's right during this arc and the concurrent Itachi vs Sasuke final battle that the Kyuubi attack switches from having happened 15/16 years ago to 16 years ago. ) Perhaps in that "real world" Jiraiya still died but took down Konan and all the Pains before he died of his injuries- thus Naruto still has Sage training but Konoha isn't destroyed. Perhaps in that real world Sasuke isn't swayed by Madara, doesn't join the Akatsuki and perhaps maybe was even killed by that Madara (if so also likely along with the rest of Hebe) unbeknownst to that real world Naruto and Sakura.
The Pain attack on Konoha happens sometime after Naruto's 16th birthday (he's already 16, remember in chapter 440, when Minato asks him how old he is... The War arc is happening sometime in spring (we know it's past winter as it was during the Kage summit), it's probably around Sakura's 17th birthday and midway through Naruto's 16th year. Kishimoto's poster doesn't have Naruto looking so dramatically younger- but in the manga his face had already started to have noticeably matured by Pain's attack on Konoha, and Sakura's hair was already noticeably longer than it was at the start of part 2- her face was maturing as well. But in this movie Naruto and Sakura retain their start of part 2 looks in most of the images (the exception for Naruto is in the battle scene where he is wearing the 4th's coat- and even there it doesn't look as mature as Naruto's does now in the manga. In the manga Naruto and Sakura's faces are getting really close to what they will look like in the early years of their full adulthood.
In the movie real world I guess the Akatsuki were all defeated before Naruto turned 16.
Edited by ciardha, 28 July 2012 - 10:27 PM.
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