Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37675682-20190727155103/@comment-29325824-20190801083636

Might I point out there is a big factor that defenders of the novels' canon tend to overlook: there are no official translations (yet). Everything we know about them comes from third party amateur (as in "not paid to do it") fan translators.

Now, what I mean is that as dedicated and competent as they may be, we of this wiki have no way of knowing for sure if everything translated is 100% correct. Even if solely for the fact that they likely cannot correspond with the original author to verify facts.

And before you say anything, yes, BBS does incoporate the CFYOW story into itself. However, that game also features things like "Quincy Ichigo" and "Hogyoku Espada", none of which are even remotely canon. Therefore, we cannot take anything it says as completely canon either.

Now, should the novels every be officially translated and exported to the west (alongside the supposed word from Kubo that they are canon), I'd both be one of the first to buy them and defend their canon status even here.

Anyway, the TL;DR for me is this: the Wiki can explain their point decently enough, the opposition can't.

P.S.: I'd be a lot more tolerant for the opposition if they would stop pretending my work on the novel stuff never happened. That they don't want to help me? Fine. But at least stop pretending I'm not doing anything.

P.P.S.: Oh, and Xil? I wouldn't call Tokinada OP per se. He's still implied to be decently weaker than Byakuya or Yoruichi, who are of equal status of him.