Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9307023-20200720040859/@comment-5398287-20200720094038

No no, he said Kudo, obviously the anime director is the one to go to for statements on the manga canon /s

In all seriousness, Timjer's right: every time I see someone claim Kubo totally 100% said these novels are canon and fail to cite any actual instance of that beyond "well he provided illustrations for them", I'm reminded of so many previous "just trust me bro" statements on Bleach and other series having something or other established by their creator(s), e.g. Dragon Ball was meant to end with the Namek arc. It's one thing if you're gonna bring that tripe to the subreddit or Bleach Asylum or whatever, but this wiki REVOLVES around being able to accurately cite everything on its pages; this ain't gonna cut it here.