Cover for Volume 1 the Shadow the Hedgehog manga by Yuki Imada was released on September 14. The manga will be serialized on the Monthly CoroCoro Comic, beginning with its October issue. It will begin serialization ahead of the release of the Shadow Generations game by the Sonic Team and SEGA on October 25.
Yuki Imada is known for titles such as Robot Crisis (2016), Tengoku no Ragnarok (2017), Mini4King (2021), and Bikkurimen: Private Maidan Girl’s Academy (2023). The latter is based on the Bikkuri-Men anime series, which featured characters from LOTTE’s Bikkuriman chocolate wafer snacks.
The upcoming Shadows Generations game is directed by Katsuyuki Shigihara, with Shun Nakamura and Takashi Iizuka as producers. It will be available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, as well as on Windows.
Shadow the Hedgehog manga, first announced in August this year, also coincides with the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 3 film this December. The third film of the series will also focus on Shadow the Hedgehog, who is voiced by Keanu Reeves. The rest of the “Sonic Team” will also reprise their roles namely Ben Schwartz as Sonic the Hedgehog, Colleen O’Shaughnessey as Miles “Tails” Prower, and Idris Elba as Knuckles the Echidna.
This is not the first time the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise had manga adaptations, with the first one being published in the April 1992 issue of Shogaku Ninensei. It also had multiple versions aimed at elementary school children, which were published in Shogaku Ichinensei, Shogaku Sannensei, among others.
The original Sonic the Hedgehog game series was first released in 1991 for the Sega Genesis. Since then it had developed multiple platformers, most of which are created by Sonic Team; spin-offs in the racing, fighting, party, and sports genres. In addition, the series also includes merchandise lineups, animated films, feature films, and printed material.
Source: CoroCoro News
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