What is your view on Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot's validity?

[Tapion]

A year or so back, people were making a big fuss over Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot being supposedly canon to the manga, though that died down.

There's this recent interview with one of the main developers of the game:

Spoiler

Q: Understood. Speaking of story, you obviously have to rely on canon as that’s the story you’re trying to tell. But you’ll also be adding stuff. Is the new content to also become part of the canon?

Ryosuke Hara: First of all, there are side stories. There is the main story in which we try to remain as true as possible and then there are some original stories that we added to this game. While there are some substories, we always kept in mind to also stay true to the DNA of Dragon Ball world. It’s something that works in layers. This means we sought to also tell original stories which won’t affect the original main storyline.

Q: OK. Is there room for others stories that actually are part of the canon but have never been shown before either in manga or anime form?

Ryosuke Hara: Yes, there are several settings that where created by Akira Toriyama himself and based on this original settings, we created some additional substories. So there are many of this kind of substories that were never told in the original.

Where he implies that all additions that don't affect /contradict the outcome of the original main story are meant to be canonical. Based on that, I choose to consider the game as 'supplemental canon'/'secondary canon'; valid, until it contradicts the original manga. Thoughts?

 

[Papasmurf]

Valid unless it contradicts the original manga, though the fact that AT didn't directly write the story of the game (merely gave suggestions for sidequests and such) probably means it's prone to being retconned at a moment's notice like DBO.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Yeah, treating it as "supplementary canon" is the best route. It offers some good world building info when it comes to Saiyan tails disappearing (an explanation that lines up with the far stronger Saiyans on Universe 6 having evolved to lose them) or why the Animal Earthlings became a rarity in Z that can be considered fact as far as I'm concerned, but it has some obvious changes to canon such as how Gurd is killed and the gameplay clearly clashing with the main series when it comes to some side quests (Gohan deciding "Eh, I could jump immediately into Babidi's spaceship...but getting Namu some water is top priority!"). Fortunately, Mira and Towa's role in slightly altering the timeline allows for it to just be considered a branched timeline of the main one with only minor changes.

 

[Future Warrior]

My view is that it's just a video game.

 

[Boo Brand Milk]

My view is that it's just a video game.

That makes too much sense though