#just look at it as supplementary what if material like the past Corocoro mangas that definitely werent wholly accurate to the game

[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