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The Jet Black Hedgehog: Shadow the Hedgehog (Manga)

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  1. MH MD

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    Yes but also no

    It spoils the main points -which are obvious from beginning- and all bosses so you should stay away anyway

    But also how the story plays out is very different in lot of key ways, even from the very beginning -spoiling when they took place a bit-, + - the game runs parallel to Sonic Generations, while the manga actually starts from 50 years ago and details Shadow's life at the ark for a bit   , so the manga have been surprising actually even after playing the game, basically a different take on the same premise
     
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  2. Blue Spikeball

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    Thank you. Guess I'll leave it for later then.
     
  3. Gestalt

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    Uh oh, seems like I mixed something up – chapter 6, the final chapter, is out!

    What a blast. The build-up to Neo Devil Doom's defeat, Maria's farewell, Shadow's awakening was insanely good.

    If you're a Shadow fan, do NOT sleep on this comic.

    Only in the manga:
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  4. Rokkan

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    This was awesome, it was written pretty well, the differences between this and the game's story are very satisfying, and it makes me wish the game's story was a tad more like this manga. Maria has a satisfying central role in this that would've been really great to have in the actual game itself. The way that this uses amnesia and mind/memory control and what does that mean for Shadow's character was really really good, the best we've seen that be deployed for Shadow. Really fantastic finale. Shadow is a litttle too over-the-top angry in this mangaka's interpretation of him, and there are times where stuff isn't quite too well-drawn, but I think these are my only real issues with this. Even when stuff doesn't look as well-drawn as it should, I think the compositions and poses look great! What a fun read, I hope this gets released outside of Japan.
     
  5. Deep Dive Devin

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    It's very funny to me that Black Doom essentially fooled the readers as well as Shadow with that "pretend I caused the ARK raid and Maria's death" illusion.
     
  6. Gestalt

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  7. shilz

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    getting my daily allowance of vitamin kk
    It's not just a collection of the whole story?
     
  8. Gestalt

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    These appear to be the CoroCoro comics of Shikkoku no Harinezumi: Shadow the Hedgehog as a standalone book!

    No word of new stories!
     
  9. MH MD

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    Now that the volume is out, there is 4 extra pages you can read at the end -it's translated-, it's cute little flashback

    Gotta say that i loved this manga overall and it's one of my favorite depictions of shadow and maria
     
  10. Gestalt

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    That's-a so nice!

    I've placed an order on Amazon JP for the paper version of it. According to them, I'll receive it in two weeks. Gotta wait a little longer, but I'm already looking forward to it.

    Though shipping costs are quite expensive, something told me I'd regret not adding one to my collection, so I bit.
     
  11. Gestalt

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    Hey, my copy arrived today:
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    Yahoo!

    Scans can be found here.

    Now all we can do is wait and hope for an official localization...
     
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  13. Gestalt

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    If that doesn't sound epic, I don't know what does. Hopefully, they do a bit more with him than just, "OK, and now for Sonic. Remember, Shadow and Sonic are nothing alike!"

    Back to BookWalker, I guess :)