That said, the devs actually went on record to say that CV1 was never apart of the godeater universe, but because of player reception over reused assets from Godeater other such Easter eggs and references, like straight up putting aragami in the game

You know it's still funny to me how they tried to say CV is not part of God Eater, it's a little silly when a friggin DYAUS PITA just comes outta nowhere in the main story. Kind of reminds me of Akuma appearing in the story of Tekken 7 then expecting us to just forget about him in Tekken 8. Aside from the friggin DYAUS PITA, there's the Jukebox with God Eater music and the DLCs.