Forum:Canon

It was recently brought up on Talk:Seto Kaiba as to whether or not Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light is canon to the anime series. I'd always assumed it was non-canon because it would create continuity errors and its events are never mentioned in the series. But looking further into, I don't see any continuity problems. Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D Bonds Beyond Time is canon, but only very briefly mentioned in the main series for something that would be a huge ordeal to the characters.

Anyway there are three main continuities documented here and a lot of smaller ones. Out of the main ones, the manga, the first anime series and the second anime series, can we determine which sources are to be considered canon?

For a lot of the additional story lines, where the plot makes sense with or without them, I don't think there is an official stance on whether they're part of the main story or not and it's open to fan interpretation. But for presentation purposes, we need to make some establishment.

I think we can immediately rule out "Evolving Duel! Stardust VS Red Demons", since Jack is still King after Leo and Luna have become friends with Akiza enough to sit together in the audience. He stopped being King before they knew each other that well in the main series. For ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters'', people have said there's some continuity error regarding Shadi, but I don't quite get it. -- Deltaneos (talk) 00:26, December 14, 2011 (UTC)