The Last: Naruto the Movie — Chapter 699.5 That Makes Naruto and Hinata Official

Its Exact Place in the Timeline

Released in Japan on December 6, 2014, The Last is the franchise's tenth feature film and the first one officially tied to the continuity. Masashi Kishimoto supervised the story, co-written with screenwriter Maruo Kyozuka, and redrew the now-adult characters himself. Tsuneo Kobayashi directed, for Studio Pierrot. France discovered it in theaters on May 13, 2015, in the subtitled original version as well as in the French dub.

An advertisement that ran with the manga's final chapters gave it its nickname: chapter 699.5. Chapter 699 closes the duel at the Valley of the End. Chapter 700 jumps about fifteen years ahead, to the next generation. Between the two, the manga shows nothing. The movie fills exactly that gap and takes place two years after the Fourth Great Ninja War, while Kakashi leads Konoha as the Sixth Hokage.

On the anime side, the rule to follow is simple: the movie is watched after episode 493 of Shippuden, once the Shikamaru Hiden arc is over. The show's final episodes, roughly episodes 494 to 500, adapt Konoha Hiden and set up the wedding of Naruto and Hinata. Reversing that order means learning the conclusion before seeing what justifies it.

That is where its real usefulness lies. The end of the manga takes for granted a couple that nothing had built up over time. The Last fills that narrative gap: it turns a hint into a story and gives readable motivation to characters that chapter 700 already presents as married and parents.

The Plot, From the Kidnapping to the Moon

The movie opens on a celestial phenomenon: the moon leaves its orbit and rains meteors down on the ninja world. At the same moment, puppet ninja break into the Hyuga compound and abduct Hanabi, Hinata's younger sister. Their employer, Toneri Otsutsuki, was in fact after Hinata herself, whom he approaches shortly afterward to ask for her hand in marriage.

Kakashi entrusts the rescue to five shinobi: Shikamaru in command, Naruto, Hinata for her Byakugan, Sakura for medical support, and Sai for reconnaissance. A countdown gives the story its tension, with the Hokage telling the team how much time remains before impact. The group crosses a spring whose water does not make them wet, then falls into a parallel dimension leading to their opponent's realm.

Along the way, a trap plunges Naruto into a genjutsu built from Hinata's memories, from their Academy years to her confession facing Pain. Romantic feeling, until then unreadable to him, finally takes shape. The movie's central motif is a red scarf that Hinata knits for him, a direct echo of the one Naruto wore as a child, made for him by his mother Kushina.

The confrontation unfolds in stages. Naruto believes he has struck Toneri down before realizing he has only destroyed a puppet. On the moon, Hinata pretends to accept the marriage in order to get close to the Tenseigan and destroy it; unmasked, she is reduced to a puppet by her captor. The final battle sees the moon split in two, and a fragment shoot toward Konoha, which Sasuke pulverizes from Earth by revealing his Sharingan and his Rinnegan.

Toneri Otsutsuki and the Tenseigan

Toneri is the last survivor of a branch of the Otsutsuki clan settled on the moon. His ancestor, Hamura Otsutsuki, is the twin brother of Hagoromo, the Sage of the Six Paths, and one of Kaguya's two sons. After their mother was sealed away, Hamura went up to watch over the moon and founded his bloodline there. He is also the ancestor of the Hyuga clan, which makes Toneri and Hinata two heirs of the same blood.

The Tenseigan, the "eye of reincarnation," is not a kekkei genkai awakened by willpower alone. It is born of a transplant: when an Otsutsuki implants a Hyuga's Byakugan, the two chakras mingle and the eye matures slowly, at the cost of repeated pain. Deprived of his own eyes, Toneri takes Hanabi's, whose Byakugan he judges especially pure. The abduction never had any other purpose.

The completed Tenseigan unlocks a chakra mode that is easy to recognize: golden aura, the ability to fly, tenfold power, and truth-seeking balls combining the five chakra natures. It is this energy that pulls the moon toward the Earth. His castle also houses a colossal orb, a kind of artificial sun made of the Hyuga eyes his ancestors gathered over a thousand years, the true reactor of his plan.

His motive is not conquest, but a faulty reading. The decree passed down by Hamura ordered them to watch over humankind and to punish the warlike use of chakra; Toneri concluded from it that humanity had to disappear. Hinata discovers the ancestor's real will and turns the argument against him. Defeated, stripped of the Tenseigan and returned to his blindness when Hanabi's eyes are taken back from him, he chooses to remain alone on the moon.

The Essential Link to Boruto

The first contribution is both emotional and structural. The movie seals the Naruto-Hinata couple, which the anime's final arc then carries through to the wedding, and on to the two children shown in the closing credits: Boruto and Himawari. Without The Last, the family unit on which everything that follows rests appears with no setup.

The second contribution is mythological. Kaguya, revealed in the very last arcs, could pass for an isolated anomaly. The Last establishes the idea of a clan from the heavens, with multiple branches and goals specific to each one. That is exactly the foundation on which Boruto will build its antagonists and its notion of a threat from outside the ninja world.

Toneri, finally, is not a throwaway opponent. He returns in the third Boruto novel, where he forcibly awakens the Jogan of Naruto's son, then in several appearances in the anime: weakened, he watches over the Earth from the moon and announces the coming of "gods." His warning serves as a direct bridge between the movie and the next generation.

Commercially, the bet paid off: about two billion yen in box office receipts, the franchise's best result until the Boruto movie of the following year. Critics praised the animation and the romantic turn, while finding the antagonist less striking than those of the manga. The criticism makes sense for a movie whose real subject is not the villain, but the relationship.

Summary Table

FAQ

• Is The Last really canon?
  Yes. It is the first movie in the series integrated into the official story, with Masashi Kishimoto directly supervising the script and the new character designs. An advertisement that ran with the end of the manga even called it chapter 699.5.
• When should you watch it?
  For manga readers, between chapters 699 and 700. For anime viewers, after episode 493 of Shippuden, so just before the final episodes devoted to preparing the wedding.
• What role does the Tenseigan play in The Last?
  It is the engine of the entire plot: Toneri has Hanabi abducted to take her Byakugan, which mutates into the Tenseigan once transplanted onto an Otsutsuki, and whose chakra pulls the Moon toward the Earth while animating a giant golem. Naruto and Hinata destroy the energy vessel bearing the same name, an orb created by Hamura Otsutsuki from the Byakugan of his own clan — every descendant, Toneri included, was born blind because his eyes were sealed inside it from birth — which cuts off the source of energy that was pulling the Moon toward the Earth and leaves Toneri without power. Defeated, Toneri has Hanabi's eyes taken back from him, she regains them, and he becomes blind again.
• Why does Toneri kidnap Hanabi and not Hinata?
  He needs a Byakugan he judges pure in order to awaken the Tenseigan. Hinata, for her part, interests him for another reason: he wants to marry her, seeing her as the Byakugan princess foretold by his bloodline.
• Does Toneri die at the end of the movie?
  No. Defeated and deprived of Hanabi's eyes, he becomes blind again and decides to remain alone on the moon. He then reappears in the Boruto universe, notably to warn of the arrival of other Otsutsuki.

In summary

The Last is not a side movie you watch to complete a collection. It is a turning point: it fills a gap the manga had left empty, it finally gives a story to a couple the conclusion treats as a given, and it establishes the Otsutsuki clan as a lasting threat rather than a one-off accident. Watching it at the right moment, after episode 493 and before the wedding arc, changes how you read the final pages of Naruto as much as the first steps of Boruto.