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I wish Super Shadow was the moon.
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do you have a good essay video to watch for sonadow’s dynamic or understanding sonic or shadow themselves?
sure. my youtube vids
every time you say schrödinger or cartel i’m confused and when i look it up i get too many answers for my curiosity to be answered but i support your oddity all the same
what if my fansubs are schrodinger's canon
If shadow was a woman I think they would have shadow blush around sonic and sonic flirt with him or treat it like they do with blaze. because there’s no way if it was hetero over these years such a relationship as theirs would go on not having romance shoved in from their gender difference
sonic and shadow, schrödinger's relationship
What's the average age range for Sonic fans?
I've been a fan of the series since 2007-2008 and I've realized a lot of active sonic fans online were in their early teens to young-mid adulthood. Now I'm noticing that it might have stayed the same? Like, I know a lot of younger people have joined cause of the movies, but idk.
I know a mom in her early 60s who likes Sonic and also draws him, but that may be an outlier. Early childhood to young-mid adulthood seems like a safe bet, although there are definitely fans around who are older.
Has it ever been addressed why Eggman hasn't fixed Omega's loyalty or built a loyal Omega now that he's long fixed Metal Sonic's tantrums?
I think if he tried, Omega will turn him to swiss cheese at the earliest opportunity.
do you think sage could be to metal sonic what maria is to shadow, many things to wonder
hold on OP you might be cooking
Is Shadow’s affinity for coffee a thing in Japanese now too? I’m friends with the person who asked that related question during the Forces twitter takeover and she’s tickled pink it’s canon in English no, but I’ve been wondering about Japan.
I mean, there's the Pict illustration from December 2023. Plus the Gens dialogue. Coffee might as well be Shadow's chili dogs.
I miss when Shadow smirked every five seconds.
he'll only do that with sonic I fear
Why do you think Sonic is not doing so well in Japan?
I think it's simply that the market over there is already saturated with tons of games people would rather play instead. They have Ninty, they have Dragon Quest, they have Final Fantasy and they have Dark Souls and friends. By comparison, Sonic seems like outdated babyshit that doesn't have anything those other games offer. When stacked with all those giants, I can't really blame them as casual fans for having such an impression. It certainly doesn't help that there still isn't that SUPER SRS large-scale story-rich RPG that those gamers can sink their teeth into, and the only other RPG is on old outdated hardware and has basically been quietly de-existed. Sonic seems like a distraction without a whole lot of substance this way.
I made a whole thread about this in 2020 or something but there's also the fact that Sega just didn't seem to care very much about promoting Sonic in Japan either:
All that said, it seems they are finally coming around in recent years and realizing that, oh yeah, we do have a market in this country. The YouTube shorts, the monthly stories, the in-character Q&A with Sonic, the aforementioned Shadow manga, the live broadcasts and the various Twitter community initiatives seem to be going a long way to get some new fans on board, if only to see what the fuss is about. The JPN Twitter account itself has more followers now than it ever did. And while the sales of SSG seem middling compared to the rest of the world, it probably isn't the flop it appears to be either. There are games that would absolutely love to get even half of that 10K sales count. And the next game in the series, whatever it is, will be the next big mainline game in the franchise so I'm expecting this downward trend to turn itself around in a year or two.
LOL you see the resemblance? HAHAHAHAH I KNEW IT
I mean I've shown pics of myself before. if I drop a few kilos I could very well look like that
you look like Holly from Monster Farm in real life.
holy crap
are you windii as in windy valley just like speeps as in speed highway
maybe :3c
how do you think sonic X handled shadow's amnesia compared to the games? what's your favorite?
I like how X really leans into how he is this tragic, aimless soul with no path or goals of his own and no place to belong to. but hey at least he gets a small measure of closure by the end
do you prefer the original frontiers ending or final horizon/super final battle? i think they're both beautiful but I lean a bit more towards sonic killing The End like a shooting star and sage's death from the original.
I probably like the update more. we don't need any more robotniks to die
Have you ever given your thoughts about the whole two capsules thing in Sonic X and the fact that there might just be a backup Shadow floating around somewhere in the X canon?
it's pretty freaky. maybe manga shadow was that other shadow all along
windii is cartel the same way sega is yakuza
exactly
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