man kimimoto is awesome, theres no way he'd use ideas from other places, especially since while writing the manga he could rip out his spine and use it as a sword to slaughter all his naruto hatersOriginally posted by: Jadugar
I dont know when Kimimoto wrote that manga episode but the release of the episode and the film were quite close.
EDIT: and yes fucking ur cousin great [img]i/expressions/rolleye.gif[/img]