Even if the
TV anime does accurately adapt the original scene in an animated format, why does that even important? Why is the
TV anime even being considered
in the first place, given how separate the
original manga and its anime adaptation is? Is the
TV anime a secondary canon, expanding upon the worldview of the
original manga in ways which Toriyama could not when first creating
Dragon Ball? Was Toriyama involved in the animation production of the scene? Did he supervise the storyboards or personally insure the key artists, and the animators and animation directors, the editors, etc. faithfully replicated what he depicted when he first illustrated the
manga?
If not, then why is the fact that the depiction of the moon's destruction across the
original manga and
TV anime are, from your perspective, virtually identical
even relevant? Not a single site rule suggests an external adaptation being
similar enough to its source material is
nearly enough to warrant using the former to further inform about the latter; and the precedent set by previous threads with similar concepts, like "
Chainsaw Man: Anime Canonicity", "
TYBW Anime is Canon", and even "
To be canon or not to be that is the question.A Dragon ball Super revision", is that to be accepted as a secondary canon, the work in question has to:
(1) be
explicitly stated to be faithful to its source material,
(2) directly involve the original creator or their input,
(3) be
explicitly described as a secondary alternative to the source material, either expanding upon or reinventing the source material in ways approved or even supervised by the original creator.
The
TV anime's depiction of the moon's destruction is simply Toei Animation's interpretation of Toriyama's
original manga. Why should Toei Animation's interpretation be considered when discussing, analyzing, and indexing Toriyama's
original manga? The Genocide of the Saiyans looked pretty similar across all of its various adaptations and depictions, but we have still only accepted the depictions present in
Super and
Super: Broly in indexing the
original manga's Frieza because they were the only depictions canonical to said profile. Can we also start looking to games like Xenoverse or the Budokai series for different perspectives on different feats, given they
look similar enough, then?