Exactly, Japfags should honestly stfu and know their place, this isn’t even an issue of “Oh, some unwell troons are trying to hijack a normal Japanese franchise”
Holy fucking TRVKE.
Jap-Purists are the reason this franchise has been stuck in a permanent state of unmoving story wise.
These people love to go around flaunting about “muh shonen” and “muh sovl” like paid shills, gathering around on different sites for the sole purpose sucking off Sega of Japan, the same Sega of Japan that decided to move away from said shonen concepts and story-beats while leading the franchise as a whole into a state of safe, bland stories that have most kids pointing and laughing at them.
And God forbid someone mention Archie or SatAM around these types
(oddly enough, a lot of JapPurists like AoSTH for some reason) as they’ll have a meltie so catastrophic, it causes another split in the mountain of splits between JapPurists and SoA fans.
I genuinely wonder where this franchise would be now if these types fucked off to another franchise in the 90s, for all I know we could’ve gotten Sonic Wonders of the World, Richard Kuta’ Sonic Movie, Sonic Mars with the original SatAM-esque story and hit issue 300 of Archie by now.
Despite this, gone are the days of Sega Sydney, an entire amusement park being given strong SatAM branding due to the raw popularity alone that’s for sure.
Sonic has always done better in America, the games were initially being sold on consoles that had no market share in Japan, a good portion of the games were made in America or in some cases by whitey themselves, and even to this day the games have always done poorly in Japan.
The fact that this is common-knowledge yet SEGA of Japan ignores it is so braindead from every aspect from the business side to the consumer side.
SEGA has most likely wasted millions on trying to push Sonic in Japan through advertising alone.
Nearly all of the Classic sonic games considered to be of good quality all originate from Sega of America, or at least a subsidiary like the Sega Technical Institute yet despite all this SOJ continues to march ahead leading this franchise into obscurity thanks to lessening the strangle hold SoA use to have over the brand.
Also, I will never read a single issue of the IDW comic as long as I live, I don’t know much about it but what I do know is that there’s a retarded dyke couple in it, there’s a scene where Sonic convinces Zavok to walk away from a fight like in Twilight or an episode of Steven Universe, and that the soyboy known as Ian Flynn keeps trying to force his OCs into the mainline canon, none of those things being good.
You’re better off ignoring IDW as a whole.
I gave it a shot two years ago and couldn’t stand it at all, there’s a reason why IDW is so popular around
that side of the franchise
(“muh gender affirming, pronoun respecting sonic comic, thanks Evan Stanley for making me feel heckin seen and noticed!!!!”)
The writing is god awful, the story flip-flops between nothing burger and table scraps of plot, the characters are all based on Ian and Evan Stanley’s HEADCANONs instead of the actual source material and worst of all, it just is not fun to read at all.
Thanks to the aforementioned points, the entire comic feels like a bunch of Dragon Ball Z filler episodes back to back with no real story progression and by God is a tough to sit through.
TL;DR
Something something words words words the left can’t meme.
