Tsuneo Kobayashi (famous romance anime director, director of Naruto The Movie The Last), the director's comments in The Last Official Guide book
t was decided in the first meeting that this would be a romance movie instead of an action movie after it was requested that the main character would be Naruto instead of a guest character. They decided that romance was what Naruto was lacking.
(Translation: Naruto lacked romance = there was never any true romance in the entire manga series, all NS, NH, SS, SK ect “romance moments” were just the hallucinations of the shippingers.)
After the scarf idea was introduced, they came up with the scene where Naruto and Hinata are running through the space with all of their memories together in the glowing bubbles, and then came up with a story that would tie to that scene.
He talks about the visuals for this movie being different from those of previous Naruto movies. He also mentions that the scene where Naruto confesses to Hinata has a color scheme like a Gogh painting, specifically mentioning the blue spring and the glowing golden butterflies.
(I think he’s referring to “Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh, with those colors.)
Mentions the flashbacks in the genjutsu scene where Naruto finally realizes Hinata’s feelings to be in non-chronological order like a puzzle… though he doesn’t say anything about it that wouldn’t be evident from watching.
Toneri was initially going to have an image like Johnny Depp as “Scissorhands.” (
.) Says that because Toneri lived by himself on the moon since he was a kid and can’t understand the feelings of others, he lacks romance because of different reasons than Naruto.
(Translation = Toneri doesn’t know love because isolation, Naruto didn’t know romantic love because both of his stupidity and chapter 664, aka “he won’t understand the feelings of girls).
Confirms again that Kishimoto checked the scenario, gave them advice, and came up with some of the important lines.
(Translation = Kishimoto not only involved, but overwrotte where he wanted. So much about this is not his movie.)
* Naruto being inexperienced in love (he says Naruto has a“Love Deviation”of 30 points lol~ I should probably explain this expression for you guys later?…)
* Since Toneri grew up isolated by only puppets, he didn’t have much experience or the chance to relate to people. So he was raised with a“独善的”(self-righteous) personality.
* Talks again about why Hinata initially rejected Naruto’s confession
* Highlights of the movie (from the scriptwriter’s perspective) include the battle and confession scene.
* Viewers have never seen this side of Naruto before, who’s fallen to the very bottom and became a bit effeminate and shameful (pitiful).
(Note: Cough, cough, chasing Sasuke, cough, cough, death of Jiraiya, cough, cough, death of Neji, cough, cough ect)
* Screen writer says for viewers not to miss out on the part where Naruto gets an encouraging peptalk from his friends, picks himself back up from the bottom., and then noticeably grows up into an adult.
(Message to the director: read chapter 615 + 405 + 406 + 447 + 448 + 552 + 553 ect)