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Because Disney doesn't decanonize the six movie. They only decanonize the expand universe. That would be equivalent with naruto novel, anime filler and movie get decanonize but they wouldn't touch the canon source that's the manga. Just like they don't touch the original six starwars movies.
Naruto is own by the creator of the manga that's masashi kishimoto. Disney can't buy it, but they can buy the right to make the live action or disney version of naruto animation.
That's with the assumption that everybody love NS and expect it to happen while hoping sasuke death when the reality the fanbase is pretty much divide and well sakura is hate and nobody care about her which is bad news for NS.
Wrong. All wrong. Totally wrong. You need to go back and relearn ownership.
If that were all the case, then Boruto the manga wouldn't even be existing right now because Kishimoto would be in charge of making it and not another studio in charge of it OR other people. Kishimoto's name is nowhere on this thing except for "Based on the series of Naruto, by Kishimoto."
It is not really owned by Kishimoto anymore if it even ever was to begin with. It is owned by a publishing company who owns the rights to distributions. Who also own the rights of what and what does not get published.
I wrote this whole elegant post, but it didn't save so I am not gonna rewrite it, but let me put in short.
If I went to Kishimoto with a NS story....and Kishimoto approved it, but the publisher of Naruto didn't...is the story canon?
Because Disney doesn't decanonize the six movie. They only decanonize the expand universe. That would be equivalent with naruto novel, anime filler and movie get decanonize but they wouldn't touch the canon source that's the manga. Just like they don't touch the original six starwars movies.
Except Naruto the manga WAS rewritten by the publishers in Naruto the Last and the Hiden Novels. In fact, it is still being rewritten in several cases and technically, some things were "decanonized" in the original manga to be rewritten later.
I mean, Iron Man movie had the bad guy said it best: "Did you think that just because you have an idea, it belongs to you?"
Disney changed the entire known CANON universe of Star Wars AFTER Disney bought it
https://www.dailydot...erse-not-canon/
"Lucasfilm has just issued a statement saying that the entire Expanded Universe is no longer official canon."
Meaning, "it used to be OFFICIALLY canon, but we changed that," some of it even deemed canon by George Lucas himself....which caused a massive uproar. That was the whole point. This ranged from comic books to novels to even video games.
The Forced Unleashed games were actually canon for a while and approved by George Lucas.
So, who wins in the canon rights? The creator or the publisher? The answer? Whoever owns the rights to it.
So you are right, you can't change the original original....but that doesn't mean you can't make another movie that retcons the original source. That's the loophole.
And if that is the case, as you said that it has to approved by Kishimoto, then does that make Road to Ninja a canon movie? Since it was written and directed by Kishimoto himself or is it that anything NS related is automatically deemed non-canon regardless if Kishimoto had a hand in it? Which seems to be the case in this Naruto debacle. "If it is NH, no matter how ridiculous, it is canon, but if it is NS no matter how logical or well it fits into the mold and even if Kishimoto makes it himself and possibly says it is canon....it is non-canon." My how convenient.
So which is it? Because it can't be both ways.
Another case and point, look at the rights to Superman and the massive lawsuit history with him and Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster family.
It is very possible, even in the Japanese market, for an author to lose their creative license rights to their own work.
It happened with Ken Akumatsu and Negima.
https://anime.astron...reason-ken.html
Publishers are always trying to get more rights than the creators. So what if I told you that the reason for all of this is because Kishimoto lost the rights to Naruto itself?
To quote Pretty Woman: "It's all about money."
I am also looking at the movie "Watchman" here.
Edited by James S Cassidy, 05 May 2017 - 05:29 PM.