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'''Queen Serenity''': The movies. The whole thing with the Kissenian Blossom, and Fiore, and your future child? It's all just a whole other continuity. |''[[Sailor Moon Abridged]]''}}
Continuity is a confusing thing. Sometimes when adapting a work, writers will scrap previous continuity and write a new continuity either disregarding the old one, or painting continuity in [[Broad Strokes]]. The result is an '''Alternate Continuity'''—a story that is no less "official" than the original, but which cannot be reconciled with it with regards to [[Backstory]] or [[Canon]]. It effectively lives in a different universe. Sometimes this forms the basis of a [[
[[Anime]] in particular has several diverse distribution paths in Japan, depending on its format—motion pictures in theaters, [[OVA]]s in direct-to-consumer sales, and 26+ episode-long series on television. It is not uncommon for an [[Anime]] to transfer from one distribution path/format to another. This is most frequently seen in shows that enjoy great success as [[OVA]]s; they jump to broadcast, and what was once effectively a miniseries becomes a story it takes an entire season to tell. Alternately, a successful series can become a movie.
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When a show's writers make the '''Alternate Continuity''' their new "main" Continuity while discarding the old one, it becomes a [[Continuity Reboot]]. If the '''Alternate Continuity''' and the regular one share backstory and diverge from each other at some point, that's generally an [[Alternate Timeline]].
Note that this [[Trope]] is specifically about changes in continuity moving from medium to medium, or after a [[Continuity Reboot]]. See also [[The Movie]], [[Ultimate Universe]] (a [[Sub-Trope]] of this), [[Canon Immigrant]] and [[
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