Hypothetical situation: say we end up having a remake anime of Dragon Ball from Bulma to Buu.
Now, most Dragon Ball after that point doesn't need to be remade, given how recent it was that Super and especially Daima came out. But we look at that spate of material, and obviously it sits a contradictory line where Daima, Super, and I'd argue GT are all being perceived (given certain statements that have been made) as all canon. It's kind of a win-win-win situation for everyone, but it obviously primarily comes from Toyotaro-sensei.
I agree that everyone should have their cake and eat it too. But what about the prospect of tying in any attempt to deal with the more complicated aspects of Super's lore in other iterations of the franchise that don't necessarily involve anime? Usually, shit gets cordoned off a'la Xenoverse; I thought that was one of the better ways of going about it. But now that you have two Fusion explanations at variance with each other that could easily have made Vegito's Fusion remain permanent (thereby eliminating the need for Future Trunks' victory in his own saga, the plot armor of the century), how does one attempt to break even on aspects of three sections of Dragon Ball's post-Buu (and in one case post-Uub) narrative?
Transformers' approach to series following Generation One was something. Until Robots in Disguise and the Unicron Trilogy, it clued in every single show as canon (for the most part). So no surprise when IDW tried to distance themselves from that mentality for a reportedly solid Generation One run, much of which you can't even buy- you'd have to read it online, but it's still acclaimed for the "More Than Meets the Eye Arc."
Let's say someone in the West (with complete adherence to Toriyama-sensei's art style, and with storytelling style as foundation) did an IDW run of Dragon Ball... It wouldn't need to be the same continuity as the manga, so what gets clued in and what stays out?
Let's discuss, peeps.
