#corocoro sonic

[pretzlforpresident]

Y’all I’m FUCKING CRAZY AAAAAAAAAAHGHHGHFGGGARAHGH IT’S SO PEAK WE ARE SO BACK!!!!!!!

[kayedzu]

the reason you exist

[adokle]

Beloved Sonic character, Dr. Savehis Ownskin

[eldritchgriffin]

Spoilers for chapters one and two of the Shadow manga!

Okay, to start off, I don't know if the manga is meant to be mainline-canon. However, based on what we've seen of it so far, I'm reading between the lines a bit, and have come up with a theory of sorts.

So, part one is set entirely on the Ark, ending with Maria being shot. Part two is where things start connecting to Generations more, and get a bit interesting:

The way this is framed makes it seem as if Shadow went directly from the Ark to the White Space. Which could just mean that the events on the Ark were some sort of flashback due to the time-traveling stuff. My theory takes a different approach though.

See, based on the way Shadow's been acting, it doesn't seem like he was just having a flashback. He hasn't given any indication of that, and the way he reacts after he arrives in White Space stands out to me. His first thought is that he needs to return to the Ark, and his second is remembering Maria's death.

But the Ark hasn't been his home in a long time, and he's known that Maria's dead for years. Comparing that to his reaction at the end of chapter one of Dark Beginnings:

He immediately clocks that it wasn't real, and he doesn't make any comment about Maria's death.

Theory time. Now, I know this almost certainly isn't what happens, but I want to put it out there before the game drops. What if Shadow from the manga is "Classic" Shadow? Shadow who has never been to the planet, who hasn't even had an hour since Maria died, and who hasn't yet found any reason for his existence beyond saving Maria?

This line from the orb-guy stands out to me as well.

What do they mean by "the second one?" What if the first "red and black" one was also Shadow, but modern Shadow?

It might be a bit of a stretch, but I think it's an interesting idea at least. The concept of past Shadow meeting his present-day counterpart. "Modern" Shadow has already come to terms with Maria's death, and is prioritizing stopping the Black Arms/Time Eater/Mephiles/whoever is trying to destroy the world. "Classic" Shadow only cares about saving Maria; nothing else matters.

[speedofsoundsketches]

COMPLETELY UNIRONICALLY SAYING THIS WITH ABSOLUTE SINCERITY FOR THE FIRST TIME BUT SEGA

HIRE

THIS

MAN

AND KEEP HIRING HIM PLEASE.

(links are to the artist's x account! Also please make sure to support the comic by buying it!!)

[sonicbible]

Apparently there might be a new Sonic manga printed in CoroCoro Comic?! There was a oneshot in the January 2024 issue and there's a chance that it could become a serialized manga if there's demand for it.

Dash & Spin Super Fast Sonic and some of the Sonic the Hedgehog (1992-1994) manga were serialized in Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic, so this is interesting.

[tailschannel]

Before this past weekend, the Japanese publisher of CoroCoro's #Shadow the Hedgehog manga asked fans not to share scans on social media, after images of the first issue began to surface online. The statement (machine translated into English) warned that "if copyright infringement continues, artists will not be able to draw new manga." Some fans on social media argued in favour of translated scans (English in particular), as there's no official localization of the manga outside Japan. A fan-conducted translation, they claim, may not financially impact the publisher. Meanwhile, the author pled followers on the site formerly known as Twitter to not "read through illegal channels," after a Sonic news fan outlet distributed, then later retracted, the entire original-language copy. The first issue of the Shadow manga was released on 12 Sep 2024 to promote #SonicXShadowGenerations in Japan. It can be purchased via various Japanese online e-book storefronts. (All links available on our Threads page.) #SonicNews

(from @TailsChannel on Instagram)

[pikachugirl1250]

Sonic fandom, I know we are super excited about the new CoroCoro Shadow manga due to what it entails, but for the sake of the artists, I recommend we don’t post scans of it. The best we can do is hope they listen to feedback and do an official translation for overseas.

[mechaseraph]

Okay got the corocoro and there is Sonic spread which is literally sooooo nothing sadly </3 but there's this Shadow at the most lower corner (he is very small trust me) with manga announcement for next issue. Literally says nothing about its content tho, just basically "Sonic's rival, Shadow, is getting his own manga serialization!" (so I assume...not one-shot?) The style of this artwork looks cool so I can hope it ain't gag/comedy this time? Sadly I cannot pin-point the artist of it

[felikatze]

SHADOW BUT GREY: this is Mephiles. He stole Shadow's shadow and that's why he looks like this. Mad god of time trying to reunite with his other half and blow up the world.

SHADOW BUT ORANGE: Shadow Android. Eggman mass produced these. Why? Who knows. He never used them. First appear in Sonic Heroes.

SHADOW BUT...??? ORANGE AND METAL SONIC??: This is either Metal Sonic 2.0 from Sonic Rivals (i forget if 1 or 2), but if it's a comic panel and he has a mouth, that'll be Shard the Metal Sonic from the archie comics. (He's Metal Sonic, but with a makeover.)

SONIC BUT GREEN:

1. Leather jacket + shades: Anti-Sonic / Scourge! Sonic from Anti-Mobius, he's a dick, he's green because Knuckles punched him. You may also see him in blue, still with the shades and jacket, from before Knuckles punched him. (From the Archie comics!)

2. Red jacket, messier hair, and drumsticks: Manic! Sonic's triplet, from Sonic Underground. He's not a dick, but a thief who still retains those tendencies.

KNUCKLES BUT????: this is a character from the Knuckles the Echidna archie comic series, and I could not fucking help you more than that. Knuckles has a brother named Kneecaps in those.

SONIC WITH A MUSTACE: That's Sonic's uncle Chuck! He appears in a coupla things, such as the Archie comics, satam, and underground. He has a dog, and he's a scientist. Gets turned into a robot a lot.

SONIC BUT WITH ONE SINGULAR STRAND OF BROWN HAIR: Sonic's dad Jules from the Archie comics.

SONIC BUT WITH GLASSES A SWEATER AND ANXIETY DISORDER: Nikki/Nicky from the CoroCoro manga. he actually IS sonic, is just the only one unaware of this fact.

EGGMAN BUT PALETTE SWAPPED: Eggman Nega, who is uhhh. Eggman from the Sol dimension / Eggman's descendant. Either of those. Or both? Either way, he first appears in Sonic Rush.

AMY WITH A DIFFERENT HAIRCUT: Sonia from Sonic Underground, Sonic's other triplet. She and Amy are both pink girl hedgehogs, but Sonia is darker, and has straight up hair instead of just styled quills.

CHAO THAT LOOKS LIKE CHARACTER XY: they just do that sometimes.

actually. feel free to add more i love this

[sonic-candy]

New Year Update

My first post of the year! TLDR: Updated socials, continued Megaman manga, started the OG Japanese version of Kirby Mania Manga, no new Astro Boy/ Atom the Beginning material, and may finally start writing because I'm a Rayman simp.

I updated my master post and added a Linktree for all of my social media accounts, including my BlueSky account. I haven't really used it yet, besides posting an introduction post.

Ongoing Projects

The Megaman Mega/Gigamix mangas are still in progress. I finished Gigamix Vol.1 a while ago and plan to eventually focus on Megamix Vol.2 in the future.

A new project I'm working on is the Kirby of the Stars: The Tale of Dedede in Pupupu Village. It's the original Japanese version of Kirby Manga Mania, which is just a greatest hits version collection of Hikawa Hirokazu (Did you know he also did the 90's Japanese Sonic the Hedgehog manga? Everything leads back to Sonic, Kirby or Astro Boy.) best/favorite stories and supposedly new stories (I only have the first 4 (Or 5?) volumes so I'm not sure If I can confirm that or not.) officially translated and published by VIZ media.

This means, however, that some stories may never get translated. And yes, you can read the official raw Japanese scans on the Corocoro website, but only certain chapters are viewable for a limited time before being locked. So after some searching and planning, I bought the complete 25 vols of The Tale of Dedede in Pupupu Village a few months ago. The glue binding is brittle so I can easily (yet carefully) rip out the pages and scan them easily. I should be done with vol.1 this month.

Other than this, I have no other Kirby-related projects.

Save for keeping tabs on some Moderno Tezuka coloring books,I have no Astro Boy/Atom the Beginning/Tezuka projects in the works. I'm currently looking for this Ehoba Doujinshi so If you know where I can grab it please contact me!

Writing

Got into Captain Laserhawk and of course, started simping over Rayman/Ramon and to a lesser extent Bullfrog. Sadly there is not a lot of printed media for me to post, as It's a fairly new IP (Only a year or so old), and I might get hit with a takedown notice if I post the manga/comic/artbook. So I can at least try to write about them. I'm still in the Kirby fandom so maybe I'll do some pieces on them too.

Ect.

Royal.V dropped a new song for the Rayman 2 fan remake so maybe I'll set up my YouTube channel and post the lost songs I discovered a while back? I also have some old PC games I want to archive, but I need to buy an external disk drive and honestly, this is pretty low on my to-buy and to-do list so it'll happen when it happens.

[pretzlforpresident]

Do you have any recommendations or advice on getting into the sonic manga?

Also I NEED to see/hear more about Tania!

Definitely check out “Out of the Blue”! It’s a fan comic retelling of the manga. If you’re looking for the original manga though, I tend to use grabber.zone. All you have to do is type Sonic manga into the top and click on what you like! Some is translated, some are not, and some are still not found as lots of the manga could be considered lost media.

This also includes a few game tie-in mangas that have been released! The most recent one was for sonic superstars that was released at a Tokyo games show in 2023 and was the first Sonic manga since 2011.

Alright, Tania time. If you are unaware, Tania(or Anita as she is also called) is Nicky Parlouzer’s younger sister in the manga, so she’s one of the lesser known Sonic siblings. Maybe I like her because I’m also a younger sibling, or maybe it’s her attitude, or maybe its her design. Whatever it is, I just think she’s neat.

I’ve got an idea for an au floating around in my brain(as usual) where she grows up to become a hero. I could see it working well for her with her skills and general confidence. Maybe I’ll do some doodles in the future related to that!

Thanks for letting me rant again lol

edit for some additional sources:

a handful of English translated chapters can be found on mangadex here!

also here is a collection of magazines and various misc. issues, most of which are about game tie-ins!

[ankle-beez]

Oh dude this Shadow manga business is getting ridiculous. Apparently Corocoro is debating altogether dropping it due to piracy. Dude. This is seriously ridiculous, why not just do a Viz or SJ, have it release online in English for sale before a physical edition! Or just make English physical editions! It's not like most fans from Japan are pirating it, it's seriously mainly overseas fans and that's to help translate it, Sonic's literally more popular here, ofc this was bound to happen if there wasn't an official release!

corocoro made a manga about shadow the hedgehog during the year of shadow the hedgehog, didn't make it available outside of japan, and then threatened fans with canning it due to piracy. like at that point they deserve to have their manga pirated lmao

[boobachu]

Series director link broken, but I guess "ocean acidification" theory dead (unless it gets retconned)

Tho it's weird the comics (which are loose canon, like Spider-man what if? mode) very specifically shows the Inklings as just... basically Sonic the Hedgehog.

Cuz there's very clearly info exchanging between corocoro and SRI, it's not like '90s Sonic comics where they went "aunno bedio gaem" and allowed Ken Penders to make comic book history. (Tho I guess unlike Sonic, Splatoon never got serious-serious)

Hmm wiggy.

In the splatoon fanbase, there are many misconceptions surrounding the relationship between inklings and water. without fail whenever I mention something related to the topic I'll get replies of "actually the canon is [some popular but incorrect theory]" "no they can do this and this canonically [it's actually a headcanon]" "no its really [something NOA made up]"

so to briefly go over The Facts:

Inklings canonically die when submerged in water. And yes, getting "splatted" is them dying for real, respawning is also an in-universe thing that has existed for at least 2000 years and not just a game mechanic. While the dying in water thing originally came from a game mechanic, it has been repeatedly stated that they incorporated this into the inkling's biology. The water weakness is not because of the water itself being toxic. The reason is based in osmosis. in the process of their evolution, Inklings (and octolings) changed a lot, and one of these changes was the ability to transform between a humanoid and swim form. Doing this transformation requires skin that is a thin, semi permeable membrane [this kind of skin is a trait found in real life molluscs]. The evolutionary trade off is that, because of how semi permeable their skin is, the ink inside of their bodies will bleed out when in contact with another liquid. This is the answer given directly by the series' creator. And here it is confirmed that while the water weakness originated from game mechanics, it is very much became a part of an inkling's in-universe biology. Kind of like how a slug will die if you sprinkle salt on it (for a reason that's almost the same as the inklings), but ultimately needs salt in its diet through the food it eats to live, inklings do drink water and other liquids. Its also not like they touch water and immediately explode, it seems they can wash their hands in it and dip their feet in it and be fine.

Some people think the water weakness is stupid, personally i think its reasonable because Inkling biology is already weird as hell and of how ridiculously advantageous it is to be an ink-based cephalopod. the ink gives them the ability to jump absurdly long distances and cheat death to an extent. they're not losing much by not being able to dunk themselves in water. Anyway point is it sucks that all the relevant canon information on this is one of those japan only things/exclusive to developer interviews and pretty much every time it's brought up in English the localizers make shit up. I plan to make a video about this one of these days, but with how 'controversial' the topic is, and how many little details and connected concepts there are, I've been holding it off because I want to do it right. there's also some specific details that are unclear that I've been hoping would be clarified in the artbook or a dev interview but haven't, I might just have to go for it at this point. for the time being, i hope this post helps clear up a few things!

[animenewsflash7]

A new "Sonic" Manga Series titled "Shadow The Hedgehog" will start in Corocoro Comic issue 10/2024!

[speedofsoundsketches]

So the shadow manga revealed the Gun soldiers we're influenced by Gun soldiers??? Because yeah, no longer like the manga. It makes no sense and is a direct insult towards Sonic Adventure 2

I think you mean influenced by Black Doom, right? Just to clarify.

Considering the manga definitely doesn’t follow canon events anymore, it’s not something to really be too vexed over. Shadow gets warped right into White Space after the capsule’s jettisoned out of the Ark just somehow for some reason. To me, it implies in this context that Doom’s presence is only appearing in the past because of his involvement in current events causing Generations to happen with time collapsing in itself. Otherwise it wouldn’t have a reason to occur.

Fully agree if it were retconning things into “Doom controlled the soldiers”, that would absolutely suck but since Shadow got a headache after the eyes started appearing behind the soldiers, I’m assuming he’s probably only seeing illusions. Doom’s able to connect like a hive mind to any in his species and Shadow having his DNA means he’s susceptible to Doom getting into his head like in 05. If this were meant to be canon, I’d think it’s something that would just write itself out once doom’s defeated again by current Shadow.

In the end, there’s a goofy heehaw exposition creature now acting as a conversation device for Shadow to bounce off for the likely remaining chapters. And they gotta find the seven dragon balls three orbs to wish Maria back alive. This is definitely becoming fairly unserious and not meant to fit into canon. It’s ultimately a gag manga so while I didn’t put much stock in it from the beginning, the fact it still managed to stay fairly accurate to the characters themselves despite going off in the plot makes it worth the ride I guess. For me at least lol