"GT is a grand side story of the original DB"

[Goten_jr]

http://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations/ ... ama-intro/
Does Toriyama mean that GT is a Story that happened just alongside the Main Story? like the Movies&Filler or a Side Story that happened in Universe? like the Trunks TV Special?

[Oniman]

Probably its own story that is not apart of the main timeline. Like a side quest in a video game.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

It means the original manga from Pilaf to Buu is the main storyline and Toriyama's artistic vision and GT is a separate storyline exclusive to TOEI that branches off (hence side story) from that story and goes its own way.

[KBABZ]

http://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations/ ... ama-intro/
Does Toriyama mean that GT is a Story that happened just alongside the Main Story? like the Movies&Filler or a Side Story that happened in Universe? like the Trunks TV Special?

I think this stems from a topic discussed recently on the podcast, which is that the Japanese language doesn't have a natural equivalent to the word non-canon like English does, so phrases like "grand side-story" and "alternate dimension" are ways to try and express that concept. I think what he's trying to say there is that GT isn't his thing and he doesn't personally consider it part of his manga storyline, but it IS still an official continuation of the story.

[ruler9871]

GT could easily just be officially stated another timeline.

[Ryuji-Otogi]

My in-universe explanation for GT and the movies is basically “alternate dimension, different space-time continuum, or different universe”. Xenoverse/Time Patroller Trunks and the post Boo story arcs inspired me to see it that way. And Time Patroller Trunks is in my head-canon. Lol. Much easier to understand it that way than to constantly nitpick what is and isn’t canon and bla bla bla.

[SuperSaiyaManZ94]

Simply put, GT is it's own animal that branches off from the story of the manga that was left off with Z episode 291 as Toei wanted to keep going and not just stop where Toriyama did when he concluded the manga less than a year before because they wanted to milk the series for as long as possible.

I would put it in the same boat as the old DB/DBZ movies, as those involve scenarios that happen pretty much out of the main sequence of the anime which is already different from events of the manga to begin with

[ZodaEX]

Simply put, GT is it's own animal that branches off from the story of the manga that was left off with Z episode 291 as Toei wanted to keep going and not just stop where Toriyama did when he concluded the manga less than a year before because they wanted to milk the series for as long as possible.

No GT branches off from the DBZ Anime, not the Dragon Ball Manga. It was handles by Toei animation unlike the manga.

[KBABZ]

Simply put, GT is it's own animal that branches off from the story of the manga that was left off with Z episode 291 as Toei wanted to keep going and not just stop where Toriyama did when he concluded the manga less than a year before because they wanted to milk the series for as long as possible.

No GT branches off from the DBZ Anime, not the Dragon Ball Manga. It was handles by Toei animation unlike the manga.

That aside there's also that a big plotline has the Tsufruians as a central backstory focal point, and they were only mentioned in the Z anime. That alone makes it rather incompatible with the manga because that's never mentioned.

[SuperSaiyaManZ94]

Simply put, GT is it's own animal that branches off from the story of the manga that was left off with Z episode 291 as Toei wanted to keep going and not just stop where Toriyama did when he concluded the manga less than a year before because they wanted to milk the series for as long as possible.

No GT branches off from the DBZ Anime, not the Dragon Ball Manga. It was handles by Toei animation unlike the manga.

Whoops, i must have gotten my wording mixed up. I had meant to say that it diverges from the Z anime which ends with episode 291 that covers the final chapter of the manga.

[TobyS]

That aside there's also that a big plotline has the Tsufruians as a central backstory focal point, and they were only mentioned in the Z anime. That alone makes it rather incompatible with the manga because that's never mentioned.

http://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations/ ... ama-intro/
Does Toriyama mean that GT is a Story that happened just alongside the Main Story? like the Movies&Filler or a Side Story that happened in Universe? like the Trunks TV Special?

Ehh to play devils advocate just because something isn't seen in the manga doesn't mean it didn't /couldn't have happened. Plus I'm pretty sure ruffles were designed by Toriyama too.

The manga later showing “the one other race that shared the planet with the saiyans” and them then being different would be a contradiction. Like Piccolos description of the afterlife contradicting filler hell seen earlier . but this isn't the same.

Ftr the trunks special is not canon, it's just like any episode in relation to it's corresponding manga chapter.
Toriyama wrote and drew a chapter called “Trunks: The story ” which covered those events. Pretty sure it was published in the weekly run, certainly in all the collected editions.

People even wrongly claim, DB super, with Trunks going SS in the rain references the animated special specifically. But it doesn't. It doesn't say it's his first time going super saiyan, it fits with the manga too.

You are of course free to “prefer” the animated special. But that don't make it less non canon than GT or the movies are.

[KBABZ]

Ehh to play devils advocate just because something isn't seen in the manga doesn't mean it didn't /couldn't have happened. Plus I'm pretty sure ruffles were designed by Toriyama too.

Fair enough, although I still put it off to the side as Toriyama did that for the anime I feel, similarly to how he designed many of the movie villains and contributed a few ideas to the anime as well.