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Originally Posted by The Chaos Entity

Yeah, it's been confirmed that the True Ending is A: canon, and B: set a year after the events of the show. I believe one of the cast members corroborated Miura's statement on Twitter, or something.
It boggles my mind to see that Western fans are still finding it hard to accept that the film is canon, when fans in Japan have no such hang ups.

First of all, it's because Westerners are the only one who get hung up on canon at all. In most countries, the writers will ignore the established storyline in a second if they think it makes for a better story without bothing to retcon or reconciling it in any way and no one cares. Westerners tend to want a nice neat consistence storyline with no contradictions and errors. No one else really does. Even other Western countries sometimes care about it less than Americans particularly do.

But for me, my hangups are the following.

1. Consistent with the above, I don't think "True Ending" at necessarily means cannon in the Westerns sense. I'm can't think of it for sure, but I'm pretty sure Japanese stuff has been called that while being not in continuity with the original ending.

2. I REALLY hate the idea of them just stopping the series without having the ending in series. It seems wrong to me. The latest news seems to indicate that "True Ending" really means "Epilogue" here and that it will merely wrap up some thing from the series rather than leave it hanging, but I assumed that if it was the only ending, that meant the series would have to just stop without resolving anything.

3. Precedent. They have never had a movie to finish the main storyline before except for Decade. And Decade did indeed just stop without resolving anything. So I had every reason to believe that it would be one of those two things.

But I'm totally cool with a big epilogue to wrap things up.