^I kinda figured it'd be canon tbh, DND and other fantasy settings often have dragons fully capable of shapeshifting into different creatures of varying sizes. They're one of the most powerful and magical creatures in fantasy after all.
Also as for your Hibike conversation, I think we shouldn't go too off topic here and a forum post would probably be the best place for a full length conversation about it. Though I think can give a quick simple take on the subject. Series like this have some gay subtext but people don't expect it to go further, plus typically the author leaves the options open to the viewer's imaginations. There's nothing to really get upset with here, official Yuri would be great but it is what it is. However from what I heard from numerous sources over the years with Hibike, is that people started to ship it after KyoAni made the anime REALLY overtly gay with the "subtext", and the author got upset by shippers and shoehorned hetero romances into the source material. Hetero romances the author supposedly didn't even want to include in the first place. I don't know if that's 100% true or just rumors/hearsay spread around, but if so I understand why people were and are fucking pissed, plus it makes the author sound petty as hell. I think you're comparing apples and oranges here with the two series, very different situations and tones with what happened. I don't want to get into it more than that here, but if you make a forum post let me know though.
Edit: I should also state that I don't claim to be an authority on the Hibike situation, I often direct people to ask others that know more. So I'm only stating what I've heard around the internet. At the very least I know there's a lot of anger around the series for various reasons.
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