Is this canon?

[Jiraiyathesannin]

So I for SOME reason care when things are canon and when the aren't. Like... if they have no impact, then who cares?

I've realized though, sometimes canon rules are different for different mediums.

Take for example a television show. Its a team. Just because one episode was written by a different person and directed by a different person, its still considered an episode by the TEAM.

Now in ANIME, often, the manga authors have little to NO interaction with the anime studios. Masashi Kishimoto was known for this. Also SOMETIMES akira toriayama did this (DBGT).

Sorry for rambling but here's the subject in question: Attack on Titan. The extended works.

In addition to the Manga and its anime (which is really good, so if there's differences, i consider the anime to have its OWN canon, but i digress) we have light novels, manga based on those light novels, and a parody manga.

Obviously the parody junior high isn't canon. But what about the light novels and their manga forms? Like before the fall, no regrets, and the captain levi prequel?

They're written and drawn by different people (no offense, but the manga is drawn poorly, the one for no regrets is drawn MUCH better).

But if they have the original authors blessing, does that MAKE them canon? I mean they don't CONFLICT with the story. As a matter of fact, they're kinda like "Bardock: Father of Goku" and "Future of trunks" in that they just expand on established content.

As long as the ones making them work regularly with the main author and he gives them his blessing on "canonnoninity" would that make them canon?

Thoughts?

BTW i haven't read any of the extended works, but I AM caught up on the manga and read the last chapter 65. So don't spoil the other stuff

 

[NineSNS]

I suspect most people will say that if the author blesses it, then it's canon.

My opnion is that blessing something is like selling a copyright so that someone else legally uses it. It's business, not canon.

 

[Mahesvara]

Well if the original author is not involved with the process, then its considered non-canon. In fact you could consider it well done fan fiction.

 

[-Punk-]

Well, A Choice with no Regrets is canon and Before the Fall is ages before the original story but as far as I'm concern the author knows about all side projects.

 

[chopstickchakra]

So I for SOME reason care when things are canon and when the aren't. Like... if they have no impact, then who cares?

I've realized though, sometimes canon rules are different for different mediums.

Take for example a television show. Its a team. Just because one episode was written by a different person and directed by a different person, its still considered an episode by the TEAM.

Now in ANIME, often, the manga authors have little to NO interaction with the anime studios. Masashi Kishimoto was known for this. Also SOMETIMES akira toriayama did this (DBGT).

Sorry for rambling but here's the subject in question: Attack on Titan. The extended works.

In addition to the Manga and its anime (which is really good, so if there's differences, i consider the anime to have its OWN canon, but i digress) we have light novels, manga based on those light novels, and a parody manga.

Obviously the parody junior high isn't canon. But what about the light novels and their manga forms? Like before the fall, no regrets, and the captain levi prequel?

They're written and drawn by different people (no offense, but the manga is drawn poorly, the one for no regrets is drawn MUCH better).

But if they have the original authors blessing, does that MAKE them canon? I mean they don't CONFLICT with the story. As a matter of fact, they're kinda like "Bardock: Father of Goku" and "Future of trunks" in that they just expand on established content.

As long as the ones making them work regularly with the main author and he gives them his blessing on "canonnoninity" would that make them canon?

Thoughts?

BTW i haven't read any of the extended works, but I AM caught up on the manga and read the last chapter 65. So don't spoil the other stuff

I follow comic laws that if it's made by the publisher it's canon despite who writes or draws it. Every Spiderman comic Marvel has put out is canon(granted we use the word continuity for comics but it's the same concept) even though some writers have made conflicting stories, that's what ret-cons exist for.