ill hunt down the old mangastream translation for you
Oda not wring it is not the point, the point is Oda and his team gave it the green light meaning the novel is canon, the same as the databooks, magazines and vivre cards. these additional materials use information that was omitted from the manga and even additional information that Oda never planned to touch on, this information is then used to give us the readers more lore of the verse.
Ace the name of Roger's sword is given in the vivre card and Oda didnt write that, so i guess to you Roger's sword doesnt have a name?
oh wait you did say you dont cherry pick right?
You are being agenda driven, by the very fact you pick and chose what canon to you!
Let's take a step back, I decide what's canon for me, I fully agree with your view on this.
And I don't want you to waste time on this for me, I understand your persspective, but at the end of the day, does it really matter?
Yesterday you spoke about common sense, so let me try to explain my perspective. I don't consider canon what's not in the Manga or in an SBS or generally directly from Oda just because I consider that the Author is the only one entitled to decide what is true and what is not.
In my perspective, a vivre card, or a book or other external material, is just narrative fluff that serves 0 point towards the story, it's just to add details. But since Oda didn't think these details, but a third party outside of the creative stream of Oda did it, and Oda approved it because in the end it doesn't matter, I don't consider it canon.
Of course, if a Vivre card says that Ace is called Ace after the sword, I have no problem saying that that is true, but I will also be sure that it will ahve 0 actual repercussion on the plot, and as such I consider it.. Accessory, in a way. I don't consider Dragonball GT canon, just like I don't consider Super canon. It's cherry picking? I understand, but at least I explained the logic behind it.
Hopefully you'll have a nice sunday. I would have preferred talking with you without insults yesterday, because differently from Rain you are acutally replying to what I write.