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Nothing really about GT or movies fitting into anything really. My point has mostly been to what are direct contributions to Toriyama about something to expand the world. Quoting a certain Dragon Ball Kakarot development interviewIt's also crazy because GT literally cannot fit into the cosmology of Super.
But a couple of staff have referenced Executor's arguments which dont actually mention GT or the non-canon movies in any capacity, so @Executor_N0 can you expand your explanation to whether or not you think GT or the non-canon movies also fit into that paradigm?
Nothing suggests that the room is filled up with other timelines where we could envision GT as being. Gowasu specifically states that there are only the rings that are in the box and that they increase when a new timeline springs into existence like with future Trunks' time meddling.
Hirota: It's also possible to experience the charm of the relationship with companion characters in the sub-stories. It starts with detailed elements of the original world, but it also has parts that weren't depicted in the TV Anime, so it might be fun to discover new elements. There are also new characters and side stories that were made from new settings we got from Akira Toriyama-sensei.
Interviewer: In this work, there's a new character that was in Toriyama-sensei's concept but didn't appear in the original manga; the debut of Bonyu has become a topic of discussion.
Hirota: About Bonyu, when we asked Toriyama-sensei "Please, tell us the secret story about the formation of the Ginyu Force", he replied "As a matter of fact, there were originally six of them", which led to this character appearing in the game. Sensei was also in charge of the character design. As a matter of fact, everything that was included was the settings given by Toriyama-sensei's answers, and we didn't add anything to it. Therefore, since this is sensei's official setting, you could say this is the new official history of "Dragon Ball Z." I was really shocked, and I first stopped to consider that.
Source: https://funfare.bandainamcoent.co.jp/3813/
Basically, there's a lot of lore that is only mentioned by Toriyama in interviews, like the true backstory of Majin Boo, the truth about the legend of the Super Saiyan and S-Cells, etc. This isn't something he does only for random magazines and books, but he also gets to tell those stories to the development of side material that sometimes will pick that and make something out of that. Like the depiction of Bonyu in DBZK that was entirely based on the answer they got about the "secret story about the formation of the Ginyu Force". And that seems to at least be considered official by those who work on the series.
So at least from the official view, information that was given by Toriyama himself seems to be fair game in Japan about the understanding of the DB, even if it didn't debut in the original manga. There are a lot of nuances to be taken from this (Especially considering how much Toriyama contradicted himself, forgot material, or just decided to change something later on), but I guess if someone really wanted to make use of something that isn't from the manga, but an anime or game as long as there's proof it was there as a note from Toriyama, at least the general concept being valid for the main work could be possible (Like the existence of Bonyu, the otherworld stuff from some filler arcs seems to also have been developed by Toriyama and he later expanded on it in guidebooks, so I guess the otherworld stuff could be valid).