Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20140111153519/@comment-6192846-20140227004853

To tally what we have so far, I'm seeing:

Praelud cover = 1

Praelud illust = 1

Interlude Profile = 5

Since I'm fine with any save for the Yuu illustration, so I guess that could count as another vote for Interlude, although I'm not bugged by the DoE one either (or the Praelud cover if we could get a good quality ver.).

I think I'm getting the general consensus. Alright I'll update the new Chartette one for now.

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Moving onto the next big thing. I think now's a good time to discuss the Comedy of Evil Project, since their first volumes come out this week and we just had the new chapters release.

mothy's hasn't updated his blog this time around so it looks like he will be skipping his overview of 2013 releases; might double up next year. Either way, we wont' get potential clarification on canocity from him for another year at least.

Which leaves us with just what we have already.

I don't think anyone is going to debate Aku Musu as being non-canon. It's a straight up crack comedy like Tamara's yonkoma shorts.

Opera Buffa's been in a sort of ambiguous spot for a while now but I think the latest chapter helps cement my opinion at least.

I think it's non-canon.

Even within the bounds of a comedy's suspension of disbelief, most of the cast act out of character, especially with Allen (both personality and hair style was Len-ized imo). The only one that seems to resemble their light novel incarnation is Ney.

Similarly, the events don't seem to match up. Allen is made fully aware of the Demon of Pride even though he's supposed to be completely oblivious in Cloture. Riliane and Allen also seem to get intimate really early on compared to how Cloture portrays it and Elluka having another option besides training Gumillia to help eliminate the Demon isn't even referenced in the books. And now, with the newest chapter, Germaine sees Allen and Riliane at the palace, even though Cloture was explicit that she didn't visit the palace, see Allen since he became a servant, or ever meet Riliane beforehand.

Beyond this entire story arc ending in everyone suddenly haveing amnesia that resets everything back to square one (making this entire storyline pointless anyway imo), I don't see how this can be rectified with the existing continuity, even in parts.

That's what I gather from this overall.