Real in the sense of not being disregarded of course. If everything is part of the same multiverse, then its not disregarded.Shineman wrote:
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Canon is a series of events that has been considered "part of the timeline/history" by the original creator(s)/Rights Holders. It does not necessarily means "this is real"; In other words, if Bird Studios/Toei/Toriyama were to considered Battle of Gods "canon", then it wouldn't mean that "this is real" but rather, it's part of the official history of the series. If they were to say it's non-canon, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, but it just rather not part of the history of the series, and rather a "alternate story" of Dragon Ball.
In the end, disregarding this and disregarding that can be a handful when it comes to Dragon Ball, because there is no defined canon. Of course, we get statements throw around here and there; whereas Toriyama stated that movies are like alternate timeline (someone correct me on this), GT is a side-story, Battle of Gods takes place before Oob and GT [Funny how they mention GT], but after Boo. Then we have guides such as Daizenshuu and GT Perfect files, then we have some secondary materials of the series here and there. Often creates a clusterfuck of such case. However, I think that people should leave canon off of the table, because it's clear as day that some has a good understanding of what's canon means because there are so many disagreements. Hell, as I'm typing this up, I probably don't think I have knowledge of what canon actually means!
Does it bother you at times when people disregard the anime?
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I'm fine with people disregarding the anime: after all, it's just an adaptation, not the original work.
However, it bothers me when people disregard the manga, which is the original work.
And that's exactly what most video games tend to do.
The argument of "but they need to know the colors" is not valid anymore since the manga now has an official colorized version, and Super NES video games already used manga colors way before the manga was available in colors: they already knew that Goku's clothes was not to be red, Piccolo's arm muscles were not supposed to be pink and Bulma's hair were not supposed to be blue or green. Toriyama's many artworks and color pages were enough to know about those things.
Unfortunately, I don't think it will ever truly happen in main video games nowadays: the truth is that the anime version - especially Dragon Ball Z - is much more popular than the original manga, so it makes sense that games would primarly use that for their artistic choices. People buying games expect to see an adaptation of the popular anime series, not an adaptation of the lesser-known manga.
However, it bothers me when people disregard the manga, which is the original work.
And that's exactly what most video games tend to do.
The argument of "but they need to know the colors" is not valid anymore since the manga now has an official colorized version, and Super NES video games already used manga colors way before the manga was available in colors: they already knew that Goku's clothes was not to be red, Piccolo's arm muscles were not supposed to be pink and Bulma's hair were not supposed to be blue or green. Toriyama's many artworks and color pages were enough to know about those things.
Unfortunately, I don't think it will ever truly happen in main video games nowadays: the truth is that the anime version - especially Dragon Ball Z - is much more popular than the original manga, so it makes sense that games would primarly use that for their artistic choices. People buying games expect to see an adaptation of the popular anime series, not an adaptation of the lesser-known manga.