Is it wrong to not accept DBS/BoG/RoF etc as canon?

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Is it wrong to not accept DBS/BoG/RoF etc as canon?

Post by KaaN10 » Tue Aug 11, 2015 9:58 pm

I don't expect anyone to understand but for me the series ended 20 years ago and I just can't bring myself to watch the new stuff. It doesn't feel right.

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Re: Is it wrong to not accept DBS/BoG/RoF etc as canon?

Post by Sayo-chan » Tue Aug 11, 2015 9:59 pm

No it's not wrong. Choose whatever you want to be canon, it's your life.
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Re: Is it wrong to not accept DBS/BoG/RoF etc as canon?

Post by SSJ God Gogeta » Tue Aug 11, 2015 10:02 pm

No. It is not wrong. It's your opinion. If you don't consider the new stuff is canon that's perfectly alright.
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Re: Is it wrong to not accept DBS/BoG/RoF etc as canon?

Post by DBZMerciter2005 » Tue Aug 11, 2015 10:40 pm

It's not wrong at all. Unlike most series canonicity with Dragon Ball is entirely up to you. Most will agree the manga is canon but anything outside of that gets debated until our faces turn blue.
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Re: Is it wrong to not accept DBS/BoG/RoF etc as canon?

Post by Sayo-chan » Tue Aug 11, 2015 10:50 pm

DBZMerciter2005 wrote:It's not wrong at all. Unlike most series canonicity with Dragon Ball is entirely up to you. Most will agree the manga is canon but anything outside of that gets debated until our faces turn blue.
You mean our hair?

On a side note, it does seem that most people outside of this forum have this mentality that you're not allowed to consider GT canon and the movies plus Super absolutely have to.
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Re: Is it wrong to not accept DBS/BoG/RoF etc as canon?

Post by funrush » Tue Aug 11, 2015 10:52 pm

Besides debatably the manga, there's no real official Dragon Ball canon, so basically pick whatever you want.

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Post by OutlawTorn » Wed Aug 12, 2015 2:29 am

No, nothing wrong with it at all. It's just a cartoon show intended for entertainment and to try to entice you to buy some toys/video games/whatever.

It's like with the early Transformers series. Despite what the "official" position may be, I don't accept Beast Wars (as much as I happen to enjoy it) to be directly related to the 80s cartoon series, especially considering it was built upon a "mix and match" of the original cartoon and comic continuities, which are contradictory to one another. So, Beast Wars requires this amalgamation of "Generation One" while there's nothing in G1 itself which requires the Beast Wars era to be its definitive future.

With Dragon Ball Super, there is nothing in the original story which even hints at the current story being told and not even a whisper of Super Saiyan God or its variants (naturally, because they weren't conceived at the time, but I digress) so in a similar way, Dragon Ball Super needs Dragon Ball/Z whereas Dragon Ball/Z doesn't need Super. For all intents and purposes, it could be a "what if" type series and people shouldn't really worry about "canon" in order to be able to enjoy it.

So, yeah... whether you accept it as canon or even care about the concept of canon is entirely up to you.

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Post by SpiritBombTriumphant » Wed Aug 12, 2015 8:16 am

There isn't really an official canon at this point. You more of just make up what you want to believe. I think that most people do Dragon Ball > Dragon Ball Z > Dragon Ball Super now, but you can count anything you want. They're making Super just for the money, and can't be concerned at all with the canon. Besides that Toriyama has stated he doesn't strive for complete 100% consistency in the manga.

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Post by Dragon Ball Ireland » Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:04 am

Canon is dead.

Originally most fans accepted the official canonicity of the series to be the 42-volume manga, and everything else was secondary.

With the recent movies, and TOEI's claim Battle of Gods was part of the "official history" that perspective changed, and the new consensus was that Dragon Ball canon became anything Toriyama was heavily involved in, for instance the manga (including Jaco), plus Battle of Gods and Resurrection F.

Now with Dragon Ball Super it is a bit more complicated. There is a manga version, but its adapted from the anime. This defeats the idea that the original source is canon and the following adaptation being filler, which previously applied. Additionally there are differences in how the story is told between the manga and anime versions.

Since Battle of Gods was a film first and now the manga and anime are adapting it its hard to justify the original source as being the standard. And then there's the altered ending of the Z segment of the manga, which version should be taken as legit? DBS has already started to retcon Dragon Ball history with things like Beerus telling Frieza to destroy planet Vegeta. Nothing is clear cut anymore.
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Re: Is it wrong to not accept DBS/BoG/RoF etc as canon?

Post by Lord Beerus » Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:15 am

The canon in Dragon Ball can be whatever you want it to be. So, no, it's not wrong if you don't want to accept DBS/BOG/ROF as canon.

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Post by theoriginalbilis » Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:47 am

Do whatever you want. It's a cartoon and comic; nothing more than that. As long as you're not belittling others' views and being confrontational; more power to you.

Just for the record, there is no "official" canon. Any one's idea of DragonBall having a canon is just that; their own idea.
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Post by Mystic Tien » Wed Aug 12, 2015 10:39 am

There is nothing wrong with that. It is also worth noting, that so far Battle of Gods and Revival of F (especially) seem to have much more involvement from Toriyama than Super, so if anything has considered to be canon, then it should be these two movies. Super is just another GT.

But of course, all of this is arguable, as both movies were made by Toei, and for Battle of Gods the original script was even written by Yusuke Watanabe from Toei's staff. He created the original concepts of Super Saiyan God and God of Destruction, which Toriyama later changed. Revival of F still followed concepts from the Battle of Gods movie, which means that even though Toriyama was the one who created the original screenplay for Revival of F, which Toei later fixed a bit, it still followed events from the movie for which Toei's staff originally created a screenplay, meaning that it isn't actually a movie, script of which is created in the mind of Toriyama without any actual influence from Toei.
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Post by Analytical Delusion » Wed Aug 12, 2015 11:49 am

It's not at all wrong, different fans have different opinions.

I think it personally makes the most sense (for me at least) to consider anything Toriyama views as being part of the main continuity as canon, but there's so much up in the air right now. Super is still ongoing, and will cover the same material as BoG/RoF early on anyway, so the two are mutually exclusive as it is.

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Post by SaintEvolution » Wed Aug 12, 2015 1:29 pm

SpiritBombTriumphant wrote:There isn't really an official canon at this point. You more of just make up what you want to believe. I think that most people do Dragon Ball > Dragon Ball Z > Dragon Ball Super now, but you can count anything you want. They're making Super just for the money, and can't be concerned at all with the canon. Besides that Toriyama has stated he doesn't strive for complete 100% consistency in the manga.
Well, all Dragon Ball productions were did basically for money.

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Re: Is it wrong to not accept DBS/BoG/RoF etc as canon?

Post by Avery » Wed Aug 12, 2015 2:48 pm

Nope. You can enjoy them and consider them non-canon at the same time. Many fans consider BoG and RoF to be their own canon. I do the same, while viewing Super as a reversed case of The Path To Power. What's canon and what's not is for you to decide, especially at this point.
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Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Wed Aug 12, 2015 7:22 pm

Mystic Tien wrote:There is nothing wrong with that. It is also worth noting, that so far Battle of Gods and Revival of F (especially) seem to have much more involvement from Toriyama than Super, so if anything has considered to be canon, then it should be these two movies. Super is just another GT.
I wouldn't call Super another GT, since the BoG & FnF arcs are adaptations of the movies he wrote, and the orginal draft scripts of the Universe 6 arc will be written by him.

The Super BoG & FnF arcs are apparently going to be to the movies what the DB/Z anime is to the manga, while the U6 arc of Super would be comparable to the movies & manga.
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Post by Mystic Tien » Wed Aug 12, 2015 7:33 pm

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Mystic Tenshinhan wrote:There is nothing wrong with that. It is also worth noting, that so far Battle of Gods and Revival of F (especially) seem to have much more involvement from Toriyama than Super, so if anything has considered to be canon, then it should be these two movies. Super is just another GT.
I wouldn't call Super another GT, since the BoG & FnF arcs are adaptations of the movies he wrote, and the orginal draft scripts of the Universe 6 arc will be written by him.

The Super BoG & FnF arcs are apparently going to be to the movies what the DB/Z anime is to the manga, while the U6 arc of Super would be comparable to the movies & manga.
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Re: Is it wrong to not accept DBS/BoG/RoF etc as canon?

Post by DBZAOTA482 » Wed Aug 12, 2015 7:36 pm

No, Dragon Ball ended with 42 tankōbon volumes (519 chapters) and Toriyama-sensei in his youth.

Now he's just a forgetful old man who's likely forgotten what made his creation great.
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Post by Lord Beerus » Wed Aug 12, 2015 7:43 pm

DBZAOTA482 wrote:Now he's a forgetful old man who's likely forgotten what made his creation great.
Toriyama was forgetful when he was writing and drawing the manga originally. And some people think Dragon Ball lost in charm in the second half of the story when it became less adventure oriented and took itself too seriously. So it could be argued he forget what made his manga so great in first place while he was still writing the manga.

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Post by Cipher » Wed Aug 12, 2015 7:53 pm

SaintEvolution wrote:Well, all Dragon Ball productions were did basically for money.
Haha, yeah, I love it when that argument comes up. Dragon Ball's definitely never been an artistic passion project, even for Toriyama. It's something he wrote because he was being paid to deliver an entertaining serial to Japanese school children (and presumably because he enjoyed it himself). That doesn't invalidate it, but it's okay to acknowledge how unpretentious it all is.

Anyway, canon is up to you. The Super version of events is the one more likely to be referred to moving forward, though, for whatever that's worth.

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