Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24074672-20131111001738/@comment-5551986-20131111131401

NorthSideZ wrote: From the light novel, "Spirits Are Forever With You"

It was not confirmed canon, but it was overseen and approved by Tite Kubo himself.

The new eyepatch was given to him by the SRDI during the 17 month time skip.

That's like saying that the Harry Potter films were directly overseen by J.K Rowling, that can be as vague as Tite Kubo signing just for the "Ok" to use his creation because that can still technically be classed or written as overseen or have as much input in him sitting with the writer as he wrote the book.

Unless Kubo writes it himself, that stuff ein't real bro.

P.S the title is quite misleading, it makes me assume you have inside knowledge of when they return.