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>look I posted more off topic shit
Source material = canon. Everything else = fanfic swill.
This is literally not negotiable. Post screencaps of definitions all you want, but this is a self evident truth held by any serious person in a given fandom.
>t-the author is involved
That is not a smoking gun. People have said the same thing for live action adaptations too, when a mangaka/author has """given his approval""" to it. This is also the same dishonest argument that retards use to say something hasn't been afflicted by censorship, while ignoring that self-censorship is a thing, but I digress.
Also, you sure you want to take this "logic" to its conclusion? That anything the original author worked on is canon? Because that means a good chunk of romance/ecchi manga/anime now have "canon" NTR due to fanbox/fantia/skeb commissions and doujinshi.
I can't wait to see what hoops you contort yourself through to say say "that doesn't count", this time. Also, you said you were done, what happened to that?