Anon · 23d
Let’s talk about merch for a second (long paragraph in coming lol) This Valentines Day there’s a Sonamy plush bouquet and “Sonknux” Valentines Day matching squishmallows, annnd there’s even Valentines Day shirts saying along the lines of “Sonic is my Valentine” and of various characters and there’s also Valentines Day cards showing Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, and Amy on them. All of this is official merch and despite Shadow being an extremely popular character (I’d argue he’s the second or third most popular character) he’s not on anything..maybe it’s too early to say since it’s not even February yet but it’s so disappointing as a Shadow and Sonadow fan to see the lack of merch for him and the ship. I get it, Sonadow isn’t a ship that SEGA wants canon but after seeing the matching Sonic and Knuckles squishmallows, it’s disappointing to see that the pairing between Sonic and Shadow is getting no recognition in terms of Valentines Day merch, at the very least it got recognized twice on JP Sonic’s website but I’d like to have some merch of it to put in my room. I was thinking that “friendship” rings or maybe plush keychains where each one has half of heart for it to connect into the other one would be cute (and although this isn’t Valentines Day themed, a Funko Pop pride edition of Sonic and Shadow would be great too, especially since SEGA publicly supports the LGBTQ) what do you think? Any ideas and how do you feel about it? Apologies for any grammar mistakes.
Yeah I agree with you, putting sonadow aside it makes no sense why there is no shadow merch at all. Like im pretty sure if you took a poll among fans on who they want to be their valentine shadow would win, i think hed even beat the blue rat. So who on earth thought it was a good idea to exclude him from the merch line? to me it feels like a total no brainer that shadow valentine merch would sell like hotcakes. not like they have to put effort into it either since they use the same uekawa stock photos everytime. So i really got no idea what the reasoning here is. Sonadow friendship rings would be cute, I have definitely seen popular yaoi ships in anime get that kind of merch, even if they are non canon rival pairings, so i dont see why sonadow cant have any. they already have some friendship necklace thing from hot topic i think.
