@Monkey:
Except when there isn't an established official thing, because little to nothing has been said on it. Than I guess we just run around like chicken's with our heads cut off instead of coming to our own general conclusion. That's apparently what you think makes the most sense.
And no canon is the acknowledged set of something, usually in art or some field. It does not have to be official.
Do you think when someone says "the canon of great Rolling Stones albums" they're talking about anything official lolll.
You have a misguided Tv Tropes style understanding of this
No I believe it is you who is misguided.
Yes people use canon in that context. That's why there are "canon" books of the Bible, but the term "canon" there has nothing to do with continuity. There are also canon Mario and Zelda games accepted officially by Nintendo. There is also canon Buffy comics, which is established officially also. Dragonball has nothing like that.
Of course canon is and should absolutely be used as a way to say what is in continuity or not, but it isn't continuity in of itself, which is what you're misunderstanding.
Canon has everything to do with being official, while whatever you decide is "canon" is just in reality pure "fanon" at best, even if saying the manga is the true canon makes sense to you.
@Monkey:
It's a well reasoned concept.
The manga as it's own line of story. And as dominant primary canon due to being, I dunno, do I really have to explain that one?
When I'm shooting down that pissant Yugi's Black Magician, I'm shooting him down from his retarded anarchic "let's just believe whatever we want about canon, my trunks x bee fanfic for instance is as much canon as chapter 1 :)!" standard.
Which do you choose. Utter nothingness. Or a good basic idea based around avoiding plotholes, separating adaptation from basis, and going off what little Toriyama has said.
Well if we go by what Toriyama says, Dragonball GT is a side-story, not out of continuity with the series. He also says Dragonball Online is a sequel to his series. This means that both Dragonball GT and Dragonball Online, in all of their blantant contractions that say they can't co-exist, are both canon to his series.
But even surmising that, no matter how logical it is, has nothing to do with official establishments of any sort whatsoever. Until Toriyama or TOEI sits down and deconstructs what is and what isn't, there is no canon, just a firmly established fanon called "canon"