User blog comment:The ASL Pirates/The Supernovas Where Are They Now?/@comment-24769684-20150515090653/@comment-69.105.238.20-20150519160639

Sounds like what I'm hearing from Hanata. I would like to point out that I don't believe—besides in promotional material which should be thrown out regardless—that the Marine Base showed in the film was specifically noted to be Marine HQ. Considering all the different cuts to other places with camera feeds to Akainu and to the imploding island, I'd say the Marine HQ canon issue is shaky at best. Ignoring the lack of a coat on Brannew (which is an equally shaky argument as we don't know what he does beyond make announcements and his promotion could have occurred between Z and Punk Hazard, or just not worn the coat), the only real continuity error is really the island order which doesn't necessarily screw everything up minus the numerous mentions of the first island—which I think the Anime covers properly post 'Z's Ambition Arc' (correct me if I'm wrong on anything). In general, my stance on Film Z is that it's supplementary material: it's not 'required reading' for One Piece Canon so that people don't have to go see the movie, but it can be applied if you've seen it/read Volume 1000(?); so long as there are not a lot of major canon issues like the Warship Island Arc. Speaking of filler, I don't recall either Movie-related Anime Arc having major canon-incongruities either... It all depends on how effective the anime production team did (which admittedly is usually horrible for most manga-based anime overall).