Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-32554648-20180706173543/@comment-6769189-20180718160110

Seelentau wrote: Yes, and it's only applicable in the West. The Japanese rarely even think about it. When I asked Kodachi, he replied if I was talking about the camera company Canon. Japanese don't know and don't use the concept. They refer to anime filler as "original series", that's all. When asked about the DBZ movies, Toriyama considers them the be seperate stories from his manga so the concept of canon exists in japan in some form.