GT is on the same level of canon as filler. Not based off the manga, but still made by Toei and officially released. As such, you can call it anime canon.
Yes, so basically GT is not the cannon dragon ball series anymore, Super is cannon. But to make it simple, Gt is an alternate timeline, kind off like the 4 or 6 Future Trunks timelines. So GT was cannon or it still but IS NOT the original timeline, Super is the original timeline NOW.
2012) it was officially stated that it was NOT canon. Again, it seems that Toriyama gave Toei the rights to continue with DB story, but then at some point (AFTER ending GT many years ago) they simply declared "not canon".
Dragon Ball GT's canon status with DBZ has been in question since Dragon Ball Super's release, but as revealed in End of Z, Super isn't even canon.
Unlike the previous two anime in the Dragon Ball franchise, Dragon Ball GT does not adapt the manga by Toriyama but is an anime-exclusive sequel show to the Dragon Ball Z anime with an original story using the same characters and universe, which follows the exploits of Goku, his granddaughter Pan, and their various ...
In the anime-only sequel series Dragon Ball GT, Goku is transformed back into a child by an accidental wish made by his old enemy Pilaf using the Black Star Dragon Balls while Pilaf was about to wish to take over the world.
While they should be seen as a continuation of Goku's story, it is not necessary to watch either Dragon Ball Super or Dragon Ball GT. There are some great moments in these shows but they aren't required viewing for Dragon Ball fans.
Dragon Ball GT opens five years later, shifting Goku to physically 42 but chronologically 49 years old. Emperor Pilaf steps in to complicate things even further after reverting him back to an 11-year-old while retaining his adult mentality.
Despite the fact that it is also the most controversial Dragon Ball series and that SS4 is not even canon anymore, the power-up was so different and had such an amazing design that fans keep loving it. Super Saiyan 4 still shows up in the games, fan-fiction, and non-canon stories.
Contrary to popular belief, there IS a manga of Dragon Ball GT. However, it came AFTER the anime and was not created by Akira Toriyama, therefore making it unofficial to the official Toriyama-verse.
Broly debuted in the video game Dragon Ball Z Super Butoden 2 (1993). Since then, Broly has frequently been included in several Dragon Ball Z-related video games, along with fellow movie and Dragon Ball GT characters such as Bardock, Cooler, Janemba, Baby and Omega Shenron.
It's got the reputation it has for a reason and there's no reason you should feel that you HAVE to watch the entire thing, but these days there's no harm in watching a few episodes, seeing what it's about and being able to quit knowing there is no long term ramification on the main series!
With the exceptions of God and God and Revival of "F," which Akira Toriyama declared to be official continuations of his manga, movies are considered to be different stories set in other dimensions. As a result, Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z animated films are not considered canonical.
By definition, it is not canon to the manga. However, Akira Toriyama approved of the series and even provided some designs for it. To the anime, however, is a different argument. One could argue that it is canon to the anime as it is set in the timeline of the Dragon Ball universe.
GT was never considered as part of the Dragon Ball's canon, but because the story of the anime picks up shortly after the manga left off, five years later to be precise, and it uses the same characters, a decades-long debate began between fans who consider GT canon, and those who don't.
Even though Super Saiyan 5 was completely fabricated with a now-famous piece of fan art, Dragon Ball basically made it canon and no one even noticed.
Super Saiyan is often abbreviated as "SSJ," but some fans might be wondering what the additional "J" means. Dragon Ball is very much a Japanese franchise and the SSJ abbreviation comes from the Japanese term Sūpā Saiya-jin.
Quite simply, the form will never be even close to canon because of its ridiculously complex fan-made origins. Obviously, the form comes after 6 other numbered Super Saiyan forms, one of which (Super Saiyan 4) is itself no longer canon.
While it seems logical that Goku would become a deity given his current level of cosmic power, Dragon Ball confirmed that he will never be a god.
It's a pretty simple answer but no, it does not. A guidebook for Dragon Ball GT called the GT Perfect Files states that he did not get any weaker. However, he does have a harder time maintaining his super saiyan transformations.
Roshi is more than 300 years old at the start of Dragon Ball, which at first comes across as comical. Curiously, Mercenary Tao is only 29 years younger than Roshi, which means that he's also several hundred years old.
Completely rooted in new material, GT would be an anime-only follow-up to Dragon Ball Z's Buu arc. It's worth noting that while GT is not canon to the main series, it is canon to the original anime's continuity.
The show was created by Toei because Toriyama was done writing Dragon Ball at the time, but they wanted it to continue, because it was their biggest moneymaker, so they created GT instead of waiting for Toriyama to write more, which is basically what filler is.
Those events that take place in Age 794 (known as 2029 on the Gengoro calendar) only in the Funimation dub, in which Dragon Ball GT takes place ten years after Dragon Ball Z. Those events take place in Age 789 in the official timeline.