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@HoRaOra9087

Depends what novels you are talking about...

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...OK, I've just taken a look at he complete list of novels, the early novels like Letters From The Other Side and The Honey Dish Rhapsody are just small side stories that happens within the canon storyline which I'd say can be considered canon.

The Death Save The Strawberry is about Rukia's decision to try and restore Ichigo's; powers which again, is another side story that happens within the canon storyline so I'd consider that one canon too.

The novel that sticks out like a sore thumb would be Spirits Are Forever With You which details what happens within the soul society during the time Ichigo lost his shinigami powers: it fits with the timeline and all plus its overseen by kubo but the only issue is the new characters introduced and the insane event it details. But then again, it fits with the main storyline fine so I don't see why it can't be canon. The thing that would cement its canonicity would be a mention of the 7th kenpachi within the manga about how he was going to be promoted to the zero squad or the 8th kenpachi etc when unohana was revael to be the first.

Now for the new books: WE DO knot ALWAYS LOVE YOU is about rukia's the marriage of Rukia to Renji Abarai; which again, is another side story that happens within the canon storyline so I'd consider that one canon too.

Beginning of the Revive of Tommorow is a short story which details how izuru kira defeated Shaz Domino and Shaz Domino's origins. Again, it is is another side story that happens within and fits with the canon storyline, it reveals Izuru's fate after the attack he received from bazz-b: how he was fixed by Mayuri (note that this short story came in a data book about canon material so it'd be a bit odd to have a non canon story. And how this short story came out before chapter 520.5 and chapter 654 which confirms Kira's fate in the manga), how Shaz was never seen again, Shaz's position as a "stern ritter" which he called himself, it also fits with the canon story so I'd consider that one canon too.

Lastly, Can't Fear Your Own World details an event during the 10 year time skip, reveals more details about the four Noble Houses, the Soul King, the history of Soul Society, the Arrancar, and Fullbringers. All in all, it was overseen by Kubo and fits within the canon storyline so yeah, I'd consider that one canon too

TL;DR the novels that have been released so far (as of July 2019) all fits within the canon storyline perfectly fine (unlike the anime filler arcs that are just completely out of place with he canon timeline) and they are also overseen by kubo so yeah, I'd say they can all be considered canon.

Also just because the wiki doesn't consider it canon doesn't mean s*t. Whether the wiki considers it as canon or not doesn't mean it is or isn't. What the admins here choose to put on the articles shouldn't be taken as anything more than their own interpretations from what they have seen. After all, this wiki is a fan site; it's not "official" in case you didn't know. There are instances of flawed information on here, for example:

https://bleach.fandom.com/wiki/Talk:S%C5%8Dsuke_Aizen Just read the entire thread about how this wiki states that Aizen doesn't know what his illusions are showing to his opponents and you will see how flawed this site really is. So all in all: it literally doesn't matter what this wiki thinks; this site is fan made and even with its flaws, they do try their best to keep it as factual as possible.