Seeing Maria's illness actually affecting her, the Emerl fight, Gerald's firing squad and Maria shattering like glass in the illusion was absolutely shocking. I'm loving this so far
The animation was already amazing with Maria and the Emerl fight, but when we saw the moon actually desfroyed in modern day, I knew we were in for something great. Looking forward to the future episodes
I was really happy to see that the moon is still broken. We have only seen it looking normal which I think the devs just forgot about and gave a throwaway “oh umm this is from the back side of the moon” it’s nice seeing people or just someone remembering the past and actually including this detail.
Yeah I feel some more time with Maria and Emerl was warranted but if they've only got 5 minutes to play with, I get it. If it had been a full 10 minute episode it would only have been the best bit of Sonic media ever, no big deal.
I’ve wanted Shadow to get proper closure over what happened to him since 06 ended and Shadow was reverted back to how he was at the end of his own title game. I see this as his closure
Same. It'll finally put things to rest for the dark Hedgehog. Everyone always seems to get this wrong in terms of his solo game. Shadow's story has NEVER been about actually confronting his past then moving on. It's all about finding things out since he's such a mystery. But now it looks like Ian can finally just lay it all out in the open. There's a huge difference in saying you've put the past behind you vs confronting it dead on THEN moving on. Will Shadow be able to make that choice? You never really know with him. With the trauma he's suffered, it's no wonder he is the way he is.
As someone who actually does like the ending to Shadow the Hedgehog and thinks it was important for the characterization he has in 06, I am interested to see what they do with Shadow actually having to face Maria dead on (in this case alive on). Something I do hope happens is that with this new adventure, a similar conclusion is drawn. That the past was in the past and after he can finally get real closure, he can finally move on and keep doing what *he* wants to, not being influenced by it and now putting everything to rest.
@@castform7 I’ve always said that to Shadow, Mephiles is what he could’ve become. So to our fav black and red hedgehog, facing Mephiles his way of dealing with his past. But without that encounter, Shadow is still dealing with his memories and his trauma.
@@MelonTartVA I never really saw Mephilis as a dark mirror to Shadow. Yes he literally looks like Shadow but unlike Shadow, the worst Mephilis has gone through is being sealed away for 10 years so that he couldn't recombine with Iblis and destroy everything. If anything, as much as I love Mephilis, he's Black Doom 2. Someone trying to get into Shadow's head and manipulate him into joining their selfish, destructive causes. It's why Shadow, at every opportunity shuts down everything Mephilis tries to feed him. Someone else has tried to do it before and the result of that is Shadow developing a stronger conviction.
Yeah but they were never really upfront if it was OUR earth or just...A earth. With Sonic Unleashed they never referred to places in real life like they do in the movies. With Maria even showing Shadow the aurora borealis it's a pretty clear cut indicator that this is our Earth. The one filled with humans to the brim, the one that Shadow tries to destroy. And I'm glad it's our earth here. It'll finally put to rest the stupid arguments of "why does Sonic need to have human friends?".
It's surreal to see the moon destroyed getting acknowledgement again. For all I love Unleashed, it was really the point in the series they stopped acknowledging it until now
I hope this is a sign that Sega is finally taking the Sonic franchise seriously again, and that we might see more Sonic anime, hopefully even a full series. Fans have been asking for this for years, and it's great to see Sega and Sonic Team starting to acknowledge it. Future is definitely bright for Sonic!
What i thought was ballsey was the using actual gun sound effects for the Maria scene, I’m not sure how much that will translate into things going forward but at least they’re willing to do it with shadow’s story
I grew up with David and Jason as my Shadow VAs, but I have to say, after actually hearing Kirk's performance with REAL, WELL WRITTEN dialogue, he is the perfect Shadow the Hedgehog. There is, at least for me, no other voice actor I'd want to voice him at this point. Kirk is the perfect mix of both David's softer, empathetic tone and Jason's more gruff and aggressive interpretation. Thank you, Kirk. Shadow has been my favorite character since day-one release of SA2 and I've been so critical of your performance of Shadow for so many years...but I see now that you actually have real material to work with, you ARE Shadow the Hedgehog.
@brokendreamsbrokenheart5601 same. I think Ian Hanlin is probably my favorite Shadow now, but Kirk... I'm so sorry for doubting him. I should've known after the Twitter Takeover that when he has something to work with...he can bring Shadow to life.
The animation was really cool. The visuals and effects were amazing. And the music and atmosphere were phenomenal. Kirk Thorton’s Shadow has greatly improved as well. Goes to show the importance of good writing and direction. And it’s great to see them acknowledge some older elements of the continuity again such as the moon still being partly destroyed and the ARK still orbiting the Earth.
The animation style of this series already looks so amazing, but there's something that i find weird Idk how to properly explain what i mean but they somehow made Maria look...smug? Confident? She looks a little weird in some shots in my opinion. But, BUT this does not mean i dont like that. It looks amazing and we still got 2 episodes coming
Me pretending to be in Editorial: It makes sense in hindsight that Shadow didn’t run from the virus during the Metal Virus Arc. He is the Ultimate Life Form. His Maria flashbacks were kicking in specifically the sore spots about curing Maria’s disease.
That's what I've been saying! He's the ultimate lifeform not because he's the strongest creature around, but because he's immune to all illnesses, which would've been put to use to create a cure for Maria if GUN didn't happen. Given the context that the heroes thought the Metal Virus was exactly what Eggman said it was and not a misnomer, Shadow would've been the perfect candidate for taking out fodder zombots, the only problem was that the Metal Virus wasn't an actual virus, it's a culture of nanobots that act like a virus. People still get on IDW's case for Shadow and how he was portrayed in the Metal Virus arc, but I've literally never had issues with how events transpired during the arc and how Shadow is handled.
@@aaronhussey8522This! That's always how I've seen it, plus people make mistakes when they're upset and Shadow was really angry with Sonic for convincing him to spare Mr Tinker, since Starline turned him back into Eggman.
@@AstroTomsonic couldn't have known this would happen though. Yes his grandstanding can be grating, but Sonic isn't about enforcing his will on others. He just believes people should have that freedom to make their own choices. Starline made his choice. So did Eggman. That's not Sonic's fault and what Shadow said? That he deserved to be infected? That was out of line.
@@aaronhussey8522is less about that and how he went out. Ian originally wanted Shadow to go out in a blaze of glory moment, with him taking off his inhibitor rings as a self sacrifice. But it was Sega who held him back and wanted the "cowards run I win." That's so anti shadow to say. Shadow essentially calling sonic a coward isn't Shadow. Shadow being so arrogant to think he can just take on an entire horde of zombies isn't Shadow. Shadow is smart, yes you act irrational when pissed off bur that's not what Shadow does. Shadow should've had a sacrifice moment at Sunset City. But instead we just get more of the same issues with how Sega THINKS we want Shadow to be. Versus how we KNOW Shadow to ACTUALLY be and want THAT Shadow back.
Maria's death was always sad... But seeing her so expressive and having her personality on full display in the short time she's in the episode, it makes it even more tragic. It hits harder now than it ever did before.
I will always defend Shadow's game, despite its flaws. However, the fact that they didn't include the broken moon seemed like a major oversight. The image of Shadow looking up at the damaged moon, that he is responsible for, almost like a constant reminder of his past mistakes seems like such an obvious thing to do. And this short made it even better by having the debris floating around it.
Speculation, ATM: I'm almost anticipating that they're going to retcon Black Doom into some kind of eldritch deity, with the form Shadow fought in 2005 being an avatar of sorts, and the giant, biblically-accurate angel-looking thing from the recent trailer and poster being his "true" form that existed outside of time and space, until the Time Eater shattered the timeline and let it in. He already had tons of religious, almost Lovecraftian iconography about his design, so doubling down on that and re-establishing him as an entity on-par with the likes of Solaris and the End would actually be pretty sick. Maria says "remember" right before the flashback of her getting shot, which to me, says there's a big retcon of Shadow's backstory coming. Something buried beneath all the memory rewrites and amnesia that somehow correlates to Black Doom's return. The aforementioned Eldritch Doom retcon could be part of that, or it could be something else, entirely. The Shadow manga seems to imply that there was a Doom's Eye in captivity somewhere on the ARK (which, shockingly, makes more sense the more I think about it), so maybe it's still there, somehow, and calling out to Shadow in a way that's triggering these flashbacks.
Someone on Twitter pointed out that Emerl having a blue light trail when doing the Spin Dash could imply that the memories of Sonic Battle are getting mixed in with Shadow’s memories of the Ark which is really good subtle foreshadowing if true.
Amen!!! I am so excited to see Shadow being set back to status quo. The short was amazing although I would have loved to see Maria more. She was such a sweet character and we see so little of her. I am excited to see how the story plays out in the game.
✨Many possibilities🤔 that they can show us. More of how shadow🔴🦔 came to be, more in depth of how "👁🗨Doom" found out about shadow🖤 and more. Take care & god bless🙏 Apologist crew. Can't wait for the next one Mr. Apologist💚.
THEY KILLED IT not only that but one of the directors of this worked on my beloved ninja turtles in rise of the tmnt and the recent tales of the tmnt but on top of all that he's a storyboard artist on sonic movie 3 how cool is that. Also I'm extremely happy that we have sailor moon as Maria if you watched that anime that's kinda fitting 😅
I believe it's only ever been mentioned in the Japanese SA2 manual (which also named the illness Neuro-Immuno Deficiency Syndrome). It's great that this obscure lore is presented to a larger audience
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that noticed the Archie parallel considering that comic is very similar to cyberspace in Frontiers not only the end of story trailer we see Gerald and Maria in the white void so Shadow getting to meet Maria again just to give her up again is really going to hurt despite finally saying goodbye
We were all blown away by this! I do agree with saying these shorts promoting the games are the best shows, and I’m a big Sonic Boom fan. The quality, the nods, voice actors showing their stuff.. it was cool that we finally see how Maria’s illness affects her. I’ve seen people say they forgot she was, or didn’t even know she was sick. The calmness of Shadow’s interactions with her is wholesome, even when he still comes off as serious. “Enjoy the ride and see where it goes.” Beautifully put. We’ll all think about what will happen next, but for now, let’s just take joy in what we got.
The attention to detail is so insane, you can actually hear maria's congestion in her line deliveries. (Im not crazy I swear) EVERYONE involved deserves ALL of the love
this really is shadow's year!(looking back on it makes me feel bad for how luigi's year was handled by comparison as i love the underdog plumber but with how much shadow's being given/the ambitious passion done for the series in general. :3) really loved this special/the animated shorts remembering the charm of sonic's world as it remembered the details of shadow's story showing them so well like maria's relationship with shadow being like siblings(especially noting his powers possibly being able to heal her.),emerl(both showing shadow's stance on him in battle/the ancient history they have.),gerald's execution squad(alongside them actually showing it with how way more dark than maria's death it was.) visually switching to the ones that shot maria,the moon being in pieces(when the most we got was it being stated to be still blown in half but forgotten.)with the foreshadowing to black doom/the time eater and the most well handled shadow/maria's(helps her voice actor's voiced similar characters like orihime & hinata that have protectors that open their hearts caring side to.) voices have been in a while that excites me for the series having the characters look back on their lore that i definitely would love a sonic anime series(really love one from trigger.:3)/sega to do something similar to these for their 65th.
Nobody seems to be bringing up Maria's shattered image near the end of the dream saying _"Shadow, remember!"_ hinting at Shadow fully recovering his memories rather than simply some equivalent of finding an old family scrapbook. This could potentially have a HUGE influence on Shadow's character moving forward. Edit:typo
The thing that bothers me is that Shadow has the Yellow Emerald in his hand at the end, much like how he does in base Generations, which sucks because either it means it screws up the timeline with Shadow knowing all this future stuff, or Shadow is going to forget everything in this game, and basically delete all of the developments he gets, such as his new powers. I really hope that this is a red herring, and that we're playing as Present Day Shadow; the Shadow post-Frontiers.
Sonic prime has the best sonic animation for a show and the games but I would like for sega to spice things up do a anime cell shaded show or a art style like this heck even a spider verse style show.
We see a gun mech in the trailer am gonna call it and say gun will use infinite having shadow copies in forces as a excuse to take down shadow just like with ibliss
I REALLLLLY hope SEGA and Sonic Team learn the right lessons with this series of animations and make a full animated series with a genuine quality and an extensive use of the cast of characters and lore. This episode was so awesome, but so short and felt they had a well of untapped potential they could access with these!
I’ll tell you what… I actually felt something positive when watching. I’ve never felt anything but bitterness towards Sonic and his games for years. Especially when fans seems to make better stuff like Spark the Electric Jester (which was done by one guy!) than the team that took 5 years to make a painfully average open world platformer. I sometimes question why I even follow this franchise at all sometimes. I am a depressed Sonic fan.
Not a fan of Ian Flynn at all, but this was good. I have a suspicion there was heavy oversight on his work for this short, because some of the lines here were taken verbatim from the Jet Black Shadow manga, which was written by mangaka Imada Yuki. So it’s very possible that either Flynn is taking more inspiration from the Japanese writers this time around, or Sonic Team was strict about how Shadow was presented here. I’d say the latter is very likely given how mainstream this series is compared to IDW.
@@otakuboy1570 Because IDW botches nearly every major character and makes background characters either plot devices or useless. Also the art is good but not made by him (as far as I know).
@MechaKnuckles the only one I agree on when it comes to a botched character is Shadow and even that is starting to improve. So what character specifically is botched? Especially if everyone else is loving it.
seeing Maria like this and, honestly just, seeing more of her. It really justifies a lot of what we saw in SA2 and Shadow's title game. I too would sell my soul to space satan to find a cure to her illness. I too would swear genocide if anything ever happened to her.
Had to wait till 1am but I’d say it was worth it. Overall loved this episode, do wish there was more Shadow and Maria interaction. But aside that, HOLY MOLY the looks, the sounds and music, the emotions, the voice acting, the battle with Emerl and the nightmare sequence at the end… so Damn good! ❤🖤
All this Shadow content is AMAZING AND the GREATEST thing ive seen. Im so happy about this since Shadow has been my fav character since SA2 came out, it’s like im a kid again
I'm just here hoping that Shadow is shown around Team Dark, and that they downplay the 'lone wolf' schtick they've been pushing for some time now. Unlikely, given the edgy rival thing sells, but that'd make me happy.
I know they're not gonna go that deep, but I wonder if at some point during Sonic x Shadow Generations Shadow will have to chose between returning the timeline to its proper course, or choosing a timeline where Maria lives? It would be interesting if Black Doom held Maria's life over Shadow's head.
Another thing I think we should point out is that Shadow seems to have this orange lightning effect. I know he’s had some orange lights associated with him before in other games, but they obviously are using the lightning to indicate speed, similar to how Sonic has it in the Paramount films. You guys think this lightning thing will be a permanent addition to Sonic and Shadow, just Shadow, or this is just for stylization for the short? Just curious.
My theory is that gun hacked emerl and told it to capture or kill Gerald so they would not have to storm the ark but shadow damaged emerl and defeats him forcing gun to do their own dirty work which means inadvertently shadow got Maria killed which is what shadow will find out in this series as like an emotional gut punch makeing him feel more guilty.
Something interesting about Maria here is this few minute short makes it clear she is a Robotnik. She is supportive and kind, but she is smart and seems to understand more than what she initially appears to. There may be more reasons than we fans think for why she was taken out along with Gerald. Seeing her grandfather killed could changed her motivations, kind nature, and world view, she could have been an earlier version of an evil female Eggman. The scenes with Gerald and the darkness with the swaying light was a creepy well done animation scene.
Seeing Maria's illness actually affecting her, the Emerl fight, Gerald's firing squad and Maria shattering like glass in the illusion was absolutely shocking. I'm loving this so far
The animation was already amazing with Maria and the Emerl fight, but when we saw the moon actually desfroyed in modern day, I knew we were in for something great. Looking forward to the future episodes
Just made that shot my lock screen background. It’s so gorgeous! Most beautiful thing I’ve seen come from Sonic the Hedgehog in a long while!
I was really happy to see that the moon is still broken. We have only seen it looking normal which I think the devs just forgot about and gave a throwaway “oh umm this is from the back side of the moon” it’s nice seeing people or just someone remembering the past and actually including this detail.
Colors is in space which make sense that it would look whole
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@@IntellectualBA001”It’s my pleasure. *doot-doot* Beta.”
The animation is amazing. I hope they use this style more often in cutscenes
Yeah I feel some more time with Maria and Emerl was warranted but if they've only got 5 minutes to play with, I get it. If it had been a full 10 minute episode it would only have been the best bit of Sonic media ever, no big deal.
I’ve wanted Shadow to get proper closure over what happened to him since 06 ended and Shadow was reverted back to how he was at the end of his own title game. I see this as his closure
Same. It'll finally put things to rest for the dark Hedgehog. Everyone always seems to get this wrong in terms of his solo game. Shadow's story has NEVER been about actually confronting his past then moving on. It's all about finding things out since he's such a mystery.
But now it looks like Ian can finally just lay it all out in the open. There's a huge difference in saying you've put the past behind you vs confronting it dead on THEN moving on. Will Shadow be able to make that choice? You never really know with him.
With the trauma he's suffered, it's no wonder he is the way he is.
@@TheRibottoStudios yeah. I’ve always sort of related to him in that way. Now he can get the closure he needs to truly move on
As someone who actually does like the ending to Shadow the Hedgehog and thinks it was important for the characterization he has in 06, I am interested to see what they do with Shadow actually having to face Maria dead on (in this case alive on). Something I do hope happens is that with this new adventure, a similar conclusion is drawn. That the past was in the past and after he can finally get real closure, he can finally move on and keep doing what *he* wants to, not being influenced by it and now putting everything to rest.
@@castform7 I’ve always said that to Shadow, Mephiles is what he could’ve become. So to our fav black and red hedgehog, facing Mephiles his way of dealing with his past. But without that encounter, Shadow is still dealing with his memories and his trauma.
@@MelonTartVA I never really saw Mephilis as a dark mirror to Shadow. Yes he literally looks like Shadow but unlike Shadow, the worst Mephilis has gone through is being sealed away for 10 years so that he couldn't recombine with Iblis and destroy everything. If anything, as much as I love Mephilis, he's Black Doom 2. Someone trying to get into Shadow's head and manipulate him into joining their selfish, destructive causes. It's why Shadow, at every opportunity shuts down everything Mephilis tries to feed him. Someone else has tried to do it before and the result of that is Shadow developing a stronger conviction.
They've called it earth many times in the games. That's not new.
Yeah but they were never really upfront if it was OUR earth or just...A earth. With Sonic Unleashed they never referred to places in real life like they do in the movies. With Maria even showing Shadow the aurora borealis it's a pretty clear cut indicator that this is our Earth. The one filled with humans to the brim, the one that Shadow tries to destroy.
And I'm glad it's our earth here. It'll finally put to rest the stupid arguments of "why does Sonic need to have human friends?".
@@TheRibottoStudios but they still used the name earth. Same as here. That's what the planet is called
My dumbass was so use to the terms Mobius that I completely forgot that the term was only canon for SaTAM, Archie and such 😭
The ring of debris around the moon reminds me of the Sega Saturn logo. Easter egg or coincidence?
Me when i see the sixth planet in the solar system: no way
@@cake2943 I can't believe the 6th planet in our solar system was a Sega reference!
It's surreal to see the moon destroyed getting acknowledgement again. For all I love Unleashed, it was really the point in the series they stopped acknowledging it until now
Since this is all 3d they should make a game that looks like this it would be beautiful
I hope this is a sign that Sega is finally taking the Sonic franchise seriously again, and that we might see more Sonic anime, hopefully even a full series. Fans have been asking for this for years, and it's great to see Sega and Sonic Team starting to acknowledge it. Future is definitely bright for Sonic!
Stay frosty though, remember the shorts they made when the remaster of colors were dropping?
@@brycekerr9090Execpt that was fitting for the tone of that game
What i thought was ballsey was the using actual gun sound effects for the Maria scene, I’m not sure how much that will translate into things going forward but at least they’re willing to do it with shadow’s story
They also in a very brief shot (pun intended) showed a close-up of one of the firing squad's members actually pulling the gun trigger on Gerald.
Why is no one talking about Kirk's voice acting? He was great here as Shadow.
I grew up with David and Jason as my Shadow VAs, but I have to say, after actually hearing Kirk's performance with REAL, WELL WRITTEN dialogue, he is the perfect Shadow the Hedgehog. There is, at least for me, no other voice actor I'd want to voice him at this point. Kirk is the perfect mix of both David's softer, empathetic tone and Jason's more gruff and aggressive interpretation.
Thank you, Kirk. Shadow has been my favorite character since day-one release of SA2 and I've been so critical of your performance of Shadow for so many years...but I see now that you actually have real material to work with, you ARE Shadow the Hedgehog.
I been saying this since Forces 😭
@brokendreamsbrokenheart5601 same. I think Ian Hanlin is probably my favorite Shadow now, but Kirk... I'm so sorry for doubting him. I should've known after the Twitter Takeover that when he has something to work with...he can bring Shadow to life.
Perhaps we treated him too harshly.
The animation was really cool. The visuals and effects were amazing. And the music and atmosphere were phenomenal. Kirk Thorton’s Shadow has greatly improved as well. Goes to show the importance of good writing and direction. And it’s great to see them acknowledge some older elements of the continuity again such as the moon still being partly destroyed and the ARK still orbiting the Earth.
Man we need an anime made like this.
The animation style of this series already looks so amazing, but there's something that i find weird
Idk how to properly explain what i mean but they somehow made Maria look...smug? Confident? She looks a little weird in some shots in my opinion. But, BUT this does not mean i dont like that. It looks amazing and we still got 2 episodes coming
Good, Maria actually has a personality other than nice, and dead.
I have faith that, one day, every cutscene in new Sonic games will look like this.
Me pretending to be in Editorial:
It makes sense in hindsight that Shadow didn’t run from the virus during the Metal Virus Arc.
He is the Ultimate Life Form.
His Maria flashbacks were kicking in specifically the sore spots about curing Maria’s disease.
That's what I've been saying! He's the ultimate lifeform not because he's the strongest creature around, but because he's immune to all illnesses, which would've been put to use to create a cure for Maria if GUN didn't happen.
Given the context that the heroes thought the Metal Virus was exactly what Eggman said it was and not a misnomer, Shadow would've been the perfect candidate for taking out fodder zombots, the only problem was that the Metal Virus wasn't an actual virus, it's a culture of nanobots that act like a virus.
People still get on IDW's case for Shadow and how he was portrayed in the Metal Virus arc, but I've literally never had issues with how events transpired during the arc and how Shadow is handled.
@@aaronhussey8522This! That's always how I've seen it, plus people make mistakes when they're upset and Shadow was really angry with Sonic for convincing him to spare Mr Tinker, since Starline turned him back into Eggman.
@@AstroTomsonic couldn't have known this would happen though. Yes his grandstanding can be grating, but Sonic isn't about enforcing his will on others. He just believes people should have that freedom to make their own choices. Starline made his choice. So did Eggman. That's not Sonic's fault and what Shadow said? That he deserved to be infected? That was out of line.
@@aaronhussey8522is less about that and how he went out. Ian originally wanted Shadow to go out in a blaze of glory moment, with him taking off his inhibitor rings as a self sacrifice. But it was Sega who held him back and wanted the "cowards run I win." That's so anti shadow to say. Shadow essentially calling sonic a coward isn't Shadow. Shadow being so arrogant to think he can just take on an entire horde of zombies isn't Shadow. Shadow is smart, yes you act irrational when pissed off bur that's not what Shadow does.
Shadow should've had a sacrifice moment at Sunset City. But instead we just get more of the same issues with how Sega THINKS we want Shadow to be. Versus how we KNOW Shadow to ACTUALLY be and want THAT Shadow back.
@@TheRibottoStudios I'm not saying Shadow was right to be mad at Sonic, but rather saying I understand why he acted out during the Metal Virus.
Maria's death was always sad... But seeing her so expressive and having her personality on full display in the short time she's in the episode, it makes it even more tragic. It hits harder now than it ever did before.
Sorry Game apologist. I actually do care about the moon lore and why it was intact in later games 😅
The moon blasting was faked
@GameApologist No way dude! Lol
Can't believe someone at Sega forgot to rotate the moon for this short. Sure hope someone got fired for THAT blunder!
The 2010's era is truly over. This is the Shadow I remember
I will always defend Shadow's game, despite its flaws. However, the fact that they didn't include the broken moon seemed like a major oversight. The image of Shadow looking up at the damaged moon, that he is responsible for, almost like a constant reminder of his past mistakes seems like such an obvious thing to do. And this short made it even better by having the debris floating around it.
When Kirk screamed Maria it sold me on him as a shadow like legit gave me chills
Ian Flynn is the goat and really cooked!
Wonder the usual suspects will cry about him referencing the moon...🙄
Who are the usual suspects that cry about Ian doing anything? I actually wanna know
@@rickyronny4019 People on *Twitter* act like Ian Flynn killed their dog.
Speculation, ATM:
I'm almost anticipating that they're going to retcon Black Doom into some kind of eldritch deity, with the form Shadow fought in 2005 being an avatar of sorts, and the giant, biblically-accurate angel-looking thing from the recent trailer and poster being his "true" form that existed outside of time and space, until the Time Eater shattered the timeline and let it in. He already had tons of religious, almost Lovecraftian iconography about his design, so doubling down on that and re-establishing him as an entity on-par with the likes of Solaris and the End would actually be pretty sick.
Maria says "remember" right before the flashback of her getting shot, which to me, says there's a big retcon of Shadow's backstory coming. Something buried beneath all the memory rewrites and amnesia that somehow correlates to Black Doom's return. The aforementioned Eldritch Doom retcon could be part of that, or it could be something else, entirely.
The Shadow manga seems to imply that there was a Doom's Eye in captivity somewhere on the ARK (which, shockingly, makes more sense the more I think about it), so maybe it's still there, somehow, and calling out to Shadow in a way that's triggering these flashbacks.
Someone on Twitter pointed out that Emerl having a blue light trail when doing the Spin Dash could imply that the memories of Sonic Battle are getting mixed in with Shadow’s memories of the Ark which is really good subtle foreshadowing if true.
English isn't my first language so...I'm not familiar about the slang Dang but the the short episode was very exciting.
It's used to emphasize something, especially to express anger or frustration. A more family friendly way of saying "damn"
THE MOOOON
Amen!!! I am so excited to see Shadow being set back to status quo. The short was amazing although I would have loved to see Maria more. She was such a sweet character and we see so little of her. I am excited to see how the story plays out in the game.
What do you mean with being set back to status quo?
@@phonesjuda7318 I mean going back to the Shadow from Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic 06.
*WE NEED A FULL SERIES THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS ONE* 🔥💯🐐😫
✨Many possibilities🤔 that they can show us. More of how shadow🔴🦔 came to be, more in depth of how "👁🗨Doom" found out about shadow🖤 and more. Take care & god bless🙏 Apologist crew. Can't wait for the next one Mr. Apologist💚.
Genuinely spat my coffee at AURORA BOREALIS! 😂
THEY KILLED IT not only that but one of the directors of this worked on my beloved ninja turtles in rise of the tmnt and the recent tales of the tmnt but on top of all that he's a storyboard artist on sonic movie 3 how cool is that. Also I'm extremely happy that we have sailor moon as Maria if you watched that anime that's kinda fitting 😅
I dont remember if this was ever discussed before, but I appreciate them explaining why Maria had to be treated on The Arc
I believe it's only ever been mentioned in the Japanese SA2 manual (which also named the illness Neuro-Immuno Deficiency Syndrome). It's great that this obscure lore is presented to a larger audience
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that noticed the Archie parallel considering that comic is very similar to cyberspace in Frontiers not only the end of story trailer we see Gerald and Maria in the white void so Shadow getting to meet Maria again just to give her up again is really going to hurt despite finally saying goodbye
We were all blown away by this! I do agree with saying these shorts promoting the games are the best shows, and I’m a big Sonic Boom fan. The quality, the nods, voice actors showing their stuff.. it was cool that we finally see how Maria’s illness affects her. I’ve seen people say they forgot she was, or didn’t even know she was sick. The calmness of Shadow’s interactions with her is wholesome, even when he still comes off as serious.
“Enjoy the ride and see where it goes.” Beautifully put. We’ll all think about what will happen next, but for now, let’s just take joy in what we got.
The attention to detail is so insane, you can actually hear maria's congestion in her line deliveries. (Im not crazy I swear)
EVERYONE involved deserves ALL of the love
aight imma say it right now, we better get a "sayonara, shadow... the hedgehog" in either the movie or shadow generations or imma be med
this really is shadow's year!(looking back on it makes me feel bad for how luigi's year was handled by comparison as i love the underdog plumber but with how much shadow's being given/the ambitious passion done for the series in general. :3)
really loved this special/the animated shorts remembering the charm of sonic's world as it remembered the details of shadow's story showing them so well like maria's relationship with shadow being like siblings(especially noting his powers possibly being able to heal her.),emerl(both showing shadow's stance on him in battle/the ancient history they have.),gerald's execution squad(alongside them actually showing it with how way more dark than maria's death it was.) visually switching to the ones that shot maria,the moon being in pieces(when the most we got was it being stated to be still blown in half but forgotten.)with the foreshadowing to black doom/the time eater and the most well handled shadow/maria's(helps her voice actor's voiced similar characters like orihime & hinata that have protectors that open their hearts caring side to.) voices have been in a while that excites me for the series having the characters look back on their lore that i definitely would love a sonic anime series(really love one from trigger.:3)/sega to do something similar to these for their 65th.
Nobody seems to be bringing up Maria's shattered image near the end of the dream saying _"Shadow, remember!"_ hinting at Shadow fully recovering his memories rather than simply some equivalent of finding an old family scrapbook. This could potentially have a HUGE influence on Shadow's character moving forward.
Edit:typo
The thing that bothers me is that Shadow has the Yellow Emerald in his hand at the end, much like how he does in base Generations, which sucks because either it means it screws up the timeline with Shadow knowing all this future stuff, or Shadow is going to forget everything in this game, and basically delete all of the developments he gets, such as his new powers. I really hope that this is a red herring, and that we're playing as Present Day Shadow; the Shadow post-Frontiers.
Shadow is always a reminder to take a few minutes to look back and just remind, refresh, remember what you have to hold value to.
Blessed family.
Sonic prime has the best sonic animation for a show and the games but I would like for sega to spice things up do a anime cell shaded show or a art style like this heck even a spider verse style show.
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All I will say is that Maria was adorable and precious and I wish I could hug her IRL
Shadow:this is where I watched Maria die sonic
Sonic : AH YEAH, LOOKS LIKE THE PARTY'S
GETTING STARTED! TIME TO ROCK AND ROLL
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You should do a video on the Sonic x Shadow manga
We see a gun mech in the trailer am gonna call it and say gun will use infinite having shadow copies in forces as a excuse to take down shadow just like with ibliss
I really liked this video👍
I hope the next Sonic animated series where humans and the animal characters just live together on the same planet and neither are aliens.
I would actually really enjoy that.
This animation was amazing! Looking forward to episodes two and three! I had no complaints
Are you gonna make a video about IDW soon again?
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What is that Sonic Man at the end? My word XD
SONIC X PEAK
I REALLLLLY hope SEGA and Sonic Team learn the right lessons with this series of animations and make a full animated series with a genuine quality and an extensive use of the cast of characters and lore.
This episode was so awesome, but so short and felt they had a well of untapped potential they could access with these!
This nailed the most important past of shadow and ALMOST MADE ME CRY! THIS WAS PEAK!
I’ll tell you what… I actually felt something positive when watching.
I’ve never felt anything but bitterness towards Sonic and his games for years. Especially when fans seems to make better stuff like Spark the Electric Jester (which was done by one guy!) than the team that took 5 years to make a painfully average open world platformer.
I sometimes question why I even follow this franchise at all sometimes. I am a depressed Sonic fan.
the only sad thing about this cartoon is that you know the next full sonic tv show will be just for kids. I WANT MORE OF THIS COOL SOMBER STUFF
Not a fan of Ian Flynn at all, but this was good. I have a suspicion there was heavy oversight on his work for this short, because some of the lines here were taken verbatim from the Jet Black Shadow manga, which was written by mangaka Imada Yuki. So it’s very possible that either Flynn is taking more inspiration from the Japanese writers this time around, or Sonic Team was strict about how Shadow was presented here. I’d say the latter is very likely given how mainstream this series is compared to IDW.
Why don't you like Ian Flynn he has made some of the best storylines with some of the best art.
@@otakuboy1570I’m saying. I don’t get the Ian Flynn hate
@@otakuboy1570 Because IDW botches nearly every major character and makes background characters either plot devices or useless. Also the art is good but not made by him (as far as I know).
@MechaKnuckles the only one I agree on when it comes to a botched character is Shadow and even that is starting to improve. So what character specifically is botched? Especially if everyone else is loving it.
@@MechaKnuckles tripping. IDW is great. I still prefer the Archie comics tho
seeing Maria like this and, honestly just, seeing more of her. It really justifies a lot of what we saw in SA2 and Shadow's title game. I too would sell my soul to space satan to find a cure to her illness. I too would swear genocide if anything ever happened to her.
I love how everyone's mind immediately went to Steamed Hams when Maria mentioned auroa borealis.
MARIA IS VOICED BY USAGI TSUKINO/SAILOR MOON’S VOICE ACTOR!!!!!!!!
I was so hyped for this animation, and the hype was rewarded with an AMAZING piece of art.
Had to wait till 1am but I’d say it was worth it. Overall loved this episode, do wish there was more Shadow and Maria interaction. But aside that, HOLY MOLY the looks, the sounds and music, the emotions, the voice acting, the battle with Emerl and the nightmare sequence at the end… so Damn good! ❤🖤
All this Shadow content is AMAZING AND the GREATEST thing ive seen. Im so happy about this since Shadow has been my fav character since SA2 came out, it’s like im a kid again
I'm just here hoping that Shadow is shown around Team Dark, and that they downplay the 'lone wolf' schtick they've been pushing for some time now. Unlikely, given the edgy rival thing sells, but that'd make me happy.
I realize it’s unrelated to the video, but it is for the channel overall. Funko announced a Metal Knuckles POP for New York Comic-Con 2024
I know they're not gonna go that deep, but I wonder if at some point during Sonic x Shadow Generations Shadow will have to chose between returning the timeline to its proper course, or choosing a timeline where Maria lives? It would be interesting if Black Doom held Maria's life over Shadow's head.
Another thing I think we should point out is that Shadow seems to have this orange lightning effect. I know he’s had some orange lights associated with him before in other games, but they obviously are using the lightning to indicate speed, similar to how Sonic has it in the Paramount films. You guys think this lightning thing will be a permanent addition to Sonic and Shadow, just Shadow, or this is just for stylization for the short? Just curious.
That fight choreography sequence was insanely good
I’ll be surprised at this point if the next Sonic show isn’t an anime. Honestly having the people who made this would also be perfect
Honestly, what I find most interesting is that GUN A: has a space fleet and B: brought all their best instead of just a strike team.
A wise hoodie-wearing black dog once said, "Shadow the Hedgehog is Zack Snyder's Mickey Mouse"
My theory is that gun hacked emerl and told it to capture or kill Gerald so they would not have to storm the ark but shadow damaged emerl and defeats him forcing gun to do their own dirty work which means inadvertently shadow got Maria killed which is what shadow will find out in this series as like an emotional gut punch makeing him feel more guilty.
So we now pretty much can confirm Maria got capped multiple times, this better be in the Movie the kids need nightmares.
Imo, I think the Shadow talk with Maria was a bit too dramatic imo, they definitely could've took it a bit slower but overall good
I still don't care that much about Shadow, but Emerl will ALWAYS have me interested.
Willing to bet they could adapt issues 170-171 from Archie comics.
Some sonic fans can never be pleased, especially with Archie fans.
yeah that was some amazing 3D animation thought it was 2D for like a minute or 2
Something interesting about Maria here is this few minute short makes it clear she is a Robotnik. She is supportive and kind, but she is smart and seems to understand more than what she initially appears to. There may be more reasons than we fans think for why she was taken out along with Gerald. Seeing her grandfather killed could changed her motivations, kind nature, and world view, she could have been an earlier version of an evil female Eggman.
The scenes with Gerald and the darkness with the swaying light was a creepy well done animation scene.
SEGA seems to be on a roll now, i just hope the Game doesn’t ruin it.
This is what I’ve been waiting for with shadow for so long
As silly as it is i still really want them to turn the metal virus arc into a game.
Man, why didn't they do this with the Knuckles show?
sega was not afrade to cap that kid :)
The most impactful six minutes of my life.
It felt like it was 1 minute long. Sooo good.
Yay, the original avatar is back.
Shadow is so cool I wish hedgehogs were real
damn you cooked with that video title
Dude I now don’t want to see maria die
This episode was peack
Emerl>
She got shot 🔥🔥 RAHH
Ahh yes 4:06