Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37675682-20190727155103/@comment-5398287-20190727171709

In addition to all of this, I have yet to see anything proving Kubo himself considers the novels to be canon beyond people using the fact that he provided illustrations as proof (which, considering all the designs he worked on for the filler arcs and movies, means nothing) and unverified/shoddy translators claiming that he's said so without real evidence. If you've got that evidence, by all means post it and we'll see what's what, but most all the claims of the novels being canon up until now have come from people unwilling to cite their sources and who prefer to attack us for not agreeing with/listening to them while refusing to actually do any work themselves, with very few exceptions.