Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9307023-20200720040859/@comment-29325824-20200720101251

Exactly Xil. Since I happen to like the novels, I'll be playing Devil's Advocate here (no offense); just because something is official does not mean it's automatically canon. I mean, most (if not all) of the old DBZ movies had character designs from Toriyama himself, but NONE of those were actually canon to the manga.

Hell, when (old) Broly proved to be so popular (too popular) Toriyama just outright reinvented the character just so he could be canon (the "DBS: Broly" movie)!

And if you want to keep the examples to Bleach; Quincy Ichigo and Hogyoku Espada from Brave Souls. Designed by Kubo and official work, but not canon.