Thats usually how I pick up on it, when you mention GT in comparison to Super or Z and people immediately say "its not canon" in terms to discredit it or anything related to it by default in discussion. Like using GT for anything is a fallacy to them. Thats what i mean.Vegeta_Sama wrote:Well, you're right on that, most people throw around the word canon while forgetting about its actual meaning, like it's some sort of seal of approval. But, I think that Super is considered canon because its foundations are born from Toriyama's head, unlike with GT.
Where as, I honestly think Toei only went to Toriyama for their seal of approval. They know fans take work more seriously if it comes from the creator and has a manga. Its the law of this fandom as well. GT didn't have a manga so the prejudice of it being TV only is why the "its not canon" dismissal comes up. People also believing that Toriyama has more to do with Super than GT is also where the bias comes in. The claims that Toriyama did nothing on GT akin to Evolution but is somehow writing the Super anime (yes there are people who think that). However Super is in that strange case where people don't use the fact it has a manga to legitimize it because the anime comes out first, thus people treat the anime as if it is the base canon, when they bash the manga (or those people that just side with the anime simply because of it having their hype where the manga doesn't).