Shout Out to Dragon Ball fans
When you’re reading the Dragon Ball manga, anime filler isn’t canon.
When you’re watching the Dragon Ball anime, anime filler is canon.
It’s literally that simple.
Anime filler, aside from occasionally coming directly from rough ideas of Toriyama’s (like a certain sequel series people wanna call canon, HMMM), was written by and approved by the same crew of writers who adapted the manga into an anime.
Two very different mediums requiring different storytelling techniques.
When you’re watching the Lord of the Rings films, Aragorn getting Andruil in Return of the King is still canon, even if when you’re reading the books, he has it the whole time.
So when you’re watching this -
And when you’re watching this -
And if you’re going to be watching this -
Doesn’t matter if you like it, dislike it, support it, or disagree with it. And it certainly doesn’t matter what some cheap, cash in spin off, produced two decades later, with almost none of the original staff, has to say about it.
Even His Most Holiest Toriyama-Sama doesn’t have a say in it. The anime was produced by literally dozens of men and women with equal talent to the original author’s, and this constant cherry picking of their work is a garbage way to watch their collective masterpiece.
So one more time, if you’re watching this -