User blog comment:The ASL Pirates/The Supernovas Where Are They Now?/@comment-24769684-20150515090653/@comment-107.77.75.87-20150518195557

Jeez, people. Can we not just source and get on with it? From Klobis: ...Oda said he doesn't want "the readers who read manga but don't watch the film" to be confused, when he was asked about the relation between manga and the film. (official pamphlet p.27)... --Klobis (talk) 11:34, December 23, 2012 (UTC) Regardless of the information that Oda put into Zephyr, related Shichibukai, and other events/characters that pertain, the fact of the matter is that they shall remain non-canon until such time as they are mentioned specifically in the manga. Yeah, mystery last Shichibukai is open-ended. For all we know, the continuity with Film Z will be kept to a film-only sect, as in maybe the next big One Piece Film will have them be the villain, or the manga will tie it all together in the future. For now though, you can't throw around any part of Z as canon because Oda has specifically split it as 'non-required material'. I personally would advocate for a far looser interpretation of cannonicity in this case solely based on that statement, but 'dem the brakes.