Allright. Lets get started.
Where to begin?
Lets start with your constantly evolving, "changing" is more fitting, opinion on gt not being canon, which i have proven several times. I will point out why your statements are baseless and unclear, leading me to believe you have changed your words becuase you are incorrect.
Might i add, you have taken my words out of context several times now, often takeing sentences and splitting them in half.
Things aren't the same in Japan as they are here I'm affraid. In Japan it's only canon if its the original creator. America is different since you have to get permission to publish something, unlike doujin
The above quote was your original statement.
Interestingly enough, Akira Toriyama along with superviseing the project, is infact the original creator. A Breif listing of the staff, you may read it if you like.
Dragon Ball GT
Series director:
Daisuke Nishio
Osamu Kasai
Director: Minoru Okazaki
Music: Shunsuke Kikuchi
Original creator: Akira Toriyama
Character Design: Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru
Art director: Takashi Yoshilike
Assistant producer: Seiichi Hiruta
Background Music: Akito Tokunaga
Chief Scenario Director: Aya Matsui
Music Composition:
Akihito Tokunaga (background)
Tetsuro Oda (Op & Ed)
Original Lyrics:
Izumi Sakai (Op)
Syuuichi Ikemori (Ed)
Producer: Kozo Morishita
Theme Song Performance:
Deen (ED1)
Field of View (OP)
Shizuka Kudou (ED3)
Wands (ED4)
Zard (ED2)
Because my argument is sound and logical, i am not required to submit proof, i am merely doing you a favor -- The proof lies withinn the argument.
Now According to your first statement (I will put it up again to remind you of your exact words)
Things aren't the same in Japan as they are here I'm affraid. In Japan it's only canon if its the original creator. America is different since you have to get permission to publish something, unlike doujin
Its hard to excuse your way out of something so clear. Short of manipulation. By the way, this law you just created? doesnt exist. The statement above actually, is false. Their is no universal rule book of comic/tv canon nature, it is up to the authors disgression, and in this case, akira toriyama created this series. He then chose to oversee it as he was trying to launch his business, that way he did not have to spend as much time on his series, but at the same time could still be involved in his work .
Not at all. If you knew the laws about publishing things, you'd know that they are different in the US as opposed to Japan
Now this is where you retracted your argument a little and augmented it. I ask you this. Would it make sense for publishing laws to come in to your own creation, and tell you because if in the event you decided to switch authors, your creation is no longer legit, even though you have given them permission to write your creation?. Not true. This imaginary law is absurd, and non existant. I challenge you to find the law that states the following:
"In the event that the original creator decides to pass the torch onto another creator, his comic book/tv show will no longer be valid withinn its own rules, and all storyline thereafter will be classified as non legit, as governed by us, the legislators."
Lets move on.
Now in this quote:
"Toriyama was not directly involved with GT"
You misquoted me, and failed to put the sentence in its entirety.
Think of it like this.
A man is attempting to somehow disproove christianity, he believes that if he can proove jesus died, and did not rise again, he can disproove christianity. So he takes the following scripture.
1 Thessalonians 4:14 :
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
Now in an act of deciet, he cuts off every word past died, and takes out the word if. so the sentence looks more like this.
For we believe that Jesus died.
Notice how the scripture is grossly disfigured, and has an entirely different meaning. This example is used to illustrate that sentences must be read entirely, and in thier context according to the subject matter.
In this case, here is my original quote.
Toriyama was not directly involved with Dragonball GT, but he did supervise the development.
Notice the word, "but". lets further break this sentence down. Toriyama was not directly involved with dragonball gt (in this case, as opposed to his involvement in dragonball z), but (key word) he did supervise the development. Now as a hole, you have a complete sentence. You must read sentences in thier entirety or you may not attain the correct meaning. Conclusion: You did not include my entire sentence which may lead yourself, or others to believe something that is not true becuase the entire sentence was not quoted, but cut in half and unfortunately in this case, it drasticly altered the meaning. That is deceptive.
Lets move on.
Not at all. In japan you can publish your doujinshi whenever you want.
Doujinshi however is not canon, as it does not require the permission of the original author to create. And can have stories that totally go against the main story.
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Right, doujinshi is not cannon. But Dragonball GT is not doujinshi. I have prooven why it is not previously, mainly because not only did toei animation recieve permision to make it, Akira Toriyama is the original creator of dragonball gt, and oversaw the development. In otherwords, if their was something in the story he didnt like, or something he felt he wanted to add, he did so, according to his rules, in his universe.
Lets move on.
Now This is where you begin to mix quotes and create a confusing mess, which infact led you say that we said something that was absolutely not true. Becuase you quoted incomplete sentences, and took two things out of context and put them together, it gave you the illusion that we were somehow contradictive of ourselfs, or, myself, rather.
Lets examine what you said.
It's pretty clear from these two statements that GT isn't canon.The both of you said it yourselves.
"Akira Toriyama was not directly involved in GT"
"Its a comic book drawn by a fan of another comic and does not involve the creator what so ever. Its like Fan Fiction. Of course its not cannon."
Therefore GT isn't cannon
feats and events that take place in GT are not cannon, so are as viable as fanfiction.
And are no more cannon than the comic I posted earlier.
If GT is cannon so is the comic I posted earlier that Akira Toriyama also was not involved in.
The first quote about akira toriyamas involvement has allready been explained so i will not repeat myself. (Although, this entire post is merely pieceing back together what you have warped and misread)
The second part was from an entirely different post, and was in reference to dojinshi. It was a result of your statement :
Why does another person assembling things about something make it canon?
I can go to Japan and make a dojinshi, get it published and have Goku being beaten bya single blade of grass, and it'll become canon?
Dojinshi is unrelated and like you said earlier, created by fans, and is not approved to be a part of the series by the original creator (unless of course, he decides to approve it for some reason). This would declassify dragonball gt as canon, if only for the fact the following was not true.
Original creator: Akira Toriyama
Also takeing into account that akira toriyama oversaw the project in its entireity. And also takeing into account that he gave toei permission to work on it.
This directly conflicts with your statement earlier, as i have allready stated which can be found my scrolling up a little.
The conclusion of this should be derived by now.
I have pointed out a few direct misquotes and statements pulled out context from your rebuttle, becuase you took several quotes and meshed them together incorrectly in such a manner that one could infact be decieved into reading the wrong information, because it was not resubmitted correctly. Instead, edited to suit your argument. Such propagandus actions are unbenificial to your case and only ruin your credibility. The burden of proof does not lie on me because i have submitted proof in my argument, as it has validity.