Where does Yellow stand in the series?

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A good portion of the fandom consider the sister/third games to be the "canon" games if there ever are ones. But where does Yellow stand? It changes storyline elements, for better and for worse, to be more similar to the anime. Red's clothing changed, the starters, the TR trio appears, Brock talks about being a breeder, etc.

Some people could say Red's Pikachu is the Pikachu from Yellow with Volt Tackle, and those three starters are the starters you get..But he could have easily caught or hatched that Pikachu, had one of the starters, and Green & Leaf gave him their starters got the other two somehow.

Is it canon at all or just a game we should forget exists but is too fun and important to the series to be forgotten? If it was ever remade, which it won't, they'd probably give Red his regular FRLG clothing and revert some minor, minor changes. Is it canon then?
 
I've never bothered to consider any one given game or set of events as "canon". For RSE and DPt, if it really matters that badly, one could say events transpire the way they do in Emerald and Platinum, For GSC I figure maybe the female trainer went through whatever Suicune stuff happened, then for the original games I figured that Yellow's changes were really just for the fun of young children to play and don't actually mean anything. Especially not the James/Jessie insertions.

Or I just go by the manga (special), where Bulbasaur's his starter but Pikachu's still a prominant Pokèmon of his.

Then again, I usually don't think much of non-scriptural canon in general. Stuff just happens differently in defferent mediums; it's not as though one of them is "right" and the rest are "wrong", or that one is less make-believe than the others.
 
Jamesredsilver said:
I've never bothered to consider any one given game or set of events as "canon". For RSE and DPt, if it really matters that badly, one could say events transpire the way they do in Emerald and Platinum, For GSC I figure maybe the female trainer went through whatever Suicune stuff happened, then for the original games I figured that Yellow's changes were really just for the fun of young children to play and don't actually mean anything. Especially not the James/Jessie insertions.

Or I just go by the manga (special), where Bulbasaur's his starter but Pikachu's still a prominant Pokèmon of his.
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Yes but manga =/= games.
 
Aiko Heiwa said:
Yes but manga =/= games.
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The manga is written off the game's notes.

Yellow isn't canon because it's not one of the "third" games. In Japan, it was actually the fourth game, and only a special edition at that. The true third game of the first generation was Blue, but that only updated the graphics a little and mixed around some maps. No storyline changes.
 
I considered Yellow version to be the cannon version prior to the release of FR/LG, which replaced it.

SmearglePaints said:
The manga is written off the game's notes.

Yellow isn't canon because it's not one of the "third" games. In Japan, it was actually the fourth game, and only a special edition at that. The true third game of the first generation was Blue, but that only updated the graphics a little and mixed around some maps. No storyline changes.
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If you think about it, Blue was only the Third Version in the sense that it was the third game that came out. However, Blue was simply an update. Yellow was the version that had the major story changes, which have been a hallmark of all the Third Versions from GenII onward.
 
Yellow is a fan-service game, which is based on animé. Therefore, I don't think it is canon. Red could have gotten other starters from somewhere else.

That is my personal opinion.
 
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