Thread:Monollama/@comment-34963790-20190129070135

After months of research and work along side jinjojess we have come to the conclusion that DR:T is in fact canon.

Firstly, interviews and tweets actually reveal that Kodaka did help out with the creation of DR:T and even gave Yuya Sato the plot of DR3 before it was released.

The "plot" is mostly set after DR0, but within the same timeskip in DR3 before the 77th graduation.

Explaining some of the "plot holes" or whatever TV tropes describes them as include that, throughout the series, Shinobu Togami's (or in this case i should really say The Kudan's) mechanical eye, borges has been feeding her misinformation on purpose under an experiment by hopes peak academy.

First of all, to fully understand what i mean, lets tlak about the flashback in volume 2. It is split into 2 chapters, Normal Days, and Unreality. The Normal Days section is true, however the unreality days is false. This information is fed through borges, but is actually from kazuya's perspective becasue he also has borges.

The problem is both the real shinobu and real kazuya died in the mansion fire. the two Borges units wiped the personalities of The Kudan (who just has a slightly better clairvoyance ability than hagakure) and literrally just some random nameless person to act out the roles of shinobu and kazuya. This is also why shinobu is never seen in DR3 because she is not really a hopes peak student.

False information given includes: The despair novel, the Hasegawa Research Institue, anything to do with hokkaido (this was just a clever writing trick where everything was set in prague but bringing up hokkaido alot made it seem like it was set there, so the thing how suzuhiko drove to prague makes more sense), and pretty much anything else related to the kagami family saga, alongside more stuff.

Borges also filtered information in real time to the brain, such as if soemone says a word EG "Minoru Oe", it would appear in shinobu and Kazuyas mind as "Suzuhiko Otsuki". The stuff with the kazuya lightsaber thing didnt happen. Suzuhiko wasnt actually a real togami and so on. This is also why none of the other main charcters appear to react much to any fake personalities such as sana and kana, everyone saw them as ibuki and gundham fro mthe start except shinobu.

in the end the world health organisation steps in and solves the situation through large amounts of drugs which help lessen the memory effects, similar to yasuke's devices in dr0. they go back to school before the schools shelter plan begins. there is even a cameo by ryota mitarai.

also before saying its a retcon, most of this was heavily forshadowed way back even bfore dr3 and v3 came out (actually the author didnt even know anything about V3 til after he finished publishing DRT3)

Just becasue the fandom thinks of soemthing (that they havent even finished reading) as non canon, doesnt make it actually non canon. The only reason anyone would cosnider that is possibly the "Kodaka's reccomended list to watch DR3" which doesnt include a lot of the short stories which dont have a role in DR3.

If you want to discuss anymore so i can get that dumb non canon tag removed i would be very greatful, then i can actually properly work on adding all the pages i need to.

If you really want to still have a warning i would replace it with soemthing like "Has info from DR:T so Borges' info might vontain Unreality" or soemthing like that.

Regardless of all of this, Kodaka also really loves DR:T.

If you want to discuss more, feel free. 