Do we have any authentic info regarding Oda directing or giving directions of any sort to anime staff about things? Are there any instances where manga stuff has been retconned by changing the thing in the anime? For example Mihawk's attack getting blocked (there is no showing of Jozu deflecting it towards the sky) by Jozu in manga whereas it was rerouted towards the sky in the anime.
Different fanbases take different things from the anime to be canon while anything that shoots down their agenda is regarded as non-canon. I think Oda already said that he treats manga and anime as different mediums and allows the animation team to have certain liberties as the manga cannot be strictly converted to the anime. So this again begs the question should we treat anime as canon or not? How do we know if and when something has been retconned (I think there are a few examples of this happening in the manga when the volume or colored volumes are published)?
Anime has done things that just does not make any sense like the Batman vs Luffy and Zoro thing. Personally I think that we should not dismiss the whole of the anime as there are a lot of things which do not make any sense at all like characters not doing anything between panels or when they are off screened in the manga. You cannot expect characters to just stand after one action and then jump straight to another action if the manga switches to some other plot for a few panels and then switches back. But clearly there are things that do not make any sense at all that have been included in the manga like the Batman and Luffy sequence. A recent example would be BM and PP vs Marco and how long PP just keeps standing there before attacking Marco.
I mean the initial Marco vs King where King talks about testing Marco's immortality has no manga counterpart so I would lean more towards this sequence not being canon but at the same time we have no idea what was happening during the whole time on the live floor between Chopper getting the vial from Zoro and making the cure. Were we just going to see Marco, King and Queen staring at each other and waiting for Chopper to make the cure?
Please vote in the poll apart from giving your thoughts in the comments. Any other options you would rather have than the ones available in the poll?
Different fanbases take different things from the anime to be canon while anything that shoots down their agenda is regarded as non-canon. I think Oda already said that he treats manga and anime as different mediums and allows the animation team to have certain liberties as the manga cannot be strictly converted to the anime. So this again begs the question should we treat anime as canon or not? How do we know if and when something has been retconned (I think there are a few examples of this happening in the manga when the volume or colored volumes are published)?
Anime has done things that just does not make any sense like the Batman vs Luffy and Zoro thing. Personally I think that we should not dismiss the whole of the anime as there are a lot of things which do not make any sense at all like characters not doing anything between panels or when they are off screened in the manga. You cannot expect characters to just stand after one action and then jump straight to another action if the manga switches to some other plot for a few panels and then switches back. But clearly there are things that do not make any sense at all that have been included in the manga like the Batman and Luffy sequence. A recent example would be BM and PP vs Marco and how long PP just keeps standing there before attacking Marco.
I mean the initial Marco vs King where King talks about testing Marco's immortality has no manga counterpart so I would lean more towards this sequence not being canon but at the same time we have no idea what was happening during the whole time on the live floor between Chopper getting the vial from Zoro and making the cure. Were we just going to see Marco, King and Queen staring at each other and waiting for Chopper to make the cure?
Please vote in the poll apart from giving your thoughts in the comments. Any other options you would rather have than the ones available in the poll?
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