Deiphobus wrote:
all i was saying is that the manga isn't completely canon as it isn't made by the creators of pokemon and i hardly think they went back and forth making sure everything fits perfectly. it is very, very close though, and i mentioned that.
That doesn't make it non-canonical. That's an argument that people
use to claim something is non-canonical, but if that argument actually made any sense, most episodes of most TV shows would be non-canonical (and don't forget Animorphs!).
Creating things like games, comics, and TV shows takes a LOT of time. If the creators of, say, a TV series wrote every episode, they'd be months apart. If the creators of Pokemon went around writing manga, anime, and the games, we MIGHT have just gotten the original Gold and Silver games, rather than HG and SS.
For the record, when worlds exist in a number of different media (IE Haruhi Suzumiya books and anime... I won't talk about the manga), then I view the two different media as different canon. The games follow one canon while the anime follows another and the different mangas follow their own. Because the manga isn't limited by game mechanics, it's actually capable of being more... "realistic," if such a word could be used.
I want to point out, before this goes any further, that the manga I'M talking about is Pokemon Special (AKA Pokemon Adventures), not The Electric Tale of Pikachu and the others.
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