User blog comment:Neowitch/New Z Trailer and Luffy Special/@comment-972068-20121119094435/@comment-972068-20121119191800

Oda's executive producer, not the writer. Meaning he actually says what happens to what in this movie, and can even stray from the writer's story if he wanted to. So from that, it's whatever you consider canon. Being the writer, or being the EP.