Ten More Years of Dragon Ball to come.
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My only surprise is how many people in the fandom itself slurp it up and toss around "this is canon/non-canon" just to protect the absolute garbage being made. When we had established "canon" for decades until Toriyama and his little clique decided they needed to put their names on it and de-canonized things just to make them slightly different.
Especially as all the parts anyone likes from Super are just ripped off from the anime itself. Such as Broly or Cooler.
To be fair, I actually looked into it a bit, the creation of “canon” content starting with the Yo Son Goku OVA happened because of Toriyama’s disgust at Evolution
Right, everything happened because of Evolution being so bad.
That doesn't justify the need to take things everyone already loved and then re-canonize them just to ruin them. Like DB Minus makes Bardock and Goku's past so much worse, but now we have to stick with it because apparently the TV Movie was just too popular.
I mean at this point I think you can just pick what you like and just ignore the rest because clearly they don't know what they're doing. The offical "canon" is a complete mess right now and as someone who religiously watched every episode during its original broadcast run I couldn't tell you what actually is and isn't anymore.
The chronology is super weird now with the manga going in a different direction than the anime, the movie chronologies that are now being cherry picked, the semi canonization of the time fuckery of the Xenoverse games, the introduction of mangas and animes of the Dragon Ball Heroes and Super Dragon Ball Heroes, parallel "Xeno" universes where GT is canon, it's a complete fucking mess and makes me miss the days when people just argued over GT and made SSJ5 fanart.
That's what I've always done. Some of the DBZ movies are great enough with nothing in them that would definitively mark them as "non-canon" other than difficulty slotting it in the timeline.
Like, I'm happy for the spinoffs for complete fanwankery like Heroes or Xeno were. But reopening the finished series just to shit on it this badly is just painful. Let it all die and stop fucking with something people have spent decades being fans of by trying to "properly canonize" it.