00:02It starts out wasting my time with Black Doom reminding Shadow of stuff both he and we already know
00:09and trying to be scary towards a character with plot armor, so that's a boring start.
00:14Black Doom reveals that Shadow has to let him absorb him for this Maria to be allowed to live
00:19because if he's defeated, she'll be returned to the Ark 50 years ago to get killed.
00:25I knew this manga wouldn't have the guts to go any differently.
00:30He wouldn't be able to have a good friendship with Maria after he's absorbed anyways.
00:35So I guess the only reason he'd be against it is he'd rather sacrifice his life to keep Maria alive.
00:44It's confusing that she says she knew it about her doomed future.
00:48She says that because he said he had been destroyed once, when he went from being in illusions to having a body,
00:55she thought she was like him and figured out that the reason Shadow was trying so hard for her was that he had seen her die.
01:03As if he wouldn't have tried so hard before.
01:06As if they didn't have a good friendship before.
01:09So this is stupid.
01:12Maria tells him that because he's lived this long, he should take care of himself from the Earth instead of her.
01:17She finally makes a convincing point to Shadow when she says she hates the place she's in anyways.
01:24Implying that she wouldn't even be grateful if she did get to live.
01:28I do think this is done a million times better than the game though.
01:32He's not magically convinced to by someone who doesn't care about as much as Maria.
01:38Maria herself is the best person possible to convince him to do this.
01:43So Shadow takes off and pads things out by hesitating to fight Black Doom even though he was given an argument in favor of it.
01:51Gee, I wonder if he's going to win.
01:54I just don't see the point of this issue existing if it's going to be so redundant with the game.
01:59At first Black Doom tries to absorb him, which is such insulting padding because this already happened and already had him overcome it with Maria's encouragement.
02:08After this, this is nothing but worthless, redundant padding.
02:14Although I like seeing Maria nag him to do his homework and thank him.
02:18But it's confusing that she gives him a birthday cake for him with one candle on it.
02:22When according to the manual of Etsy 2, he was only on the Ark for a week.
02:27But I already established that this is another universe.
02:31Shadow just has to fly towards Black Doom.
02:34And after redundant padding, he explodes immediately.
02:37What a wimp.
02:40Maria starts disappearing, but she tries to tell him to smile.
02:43Which just rips off Sonic telling Elise to smile in 06.
02:47And at least they get to see the rare side of him forcing himself to smile.
02:52She disappears, and it's just padding after this until the story ends.
02:57Well that was a predictable waste of time.
02:59Which did nothing but try to disguise how redundantly uncreative it was with sentimental fluff about how heartwarming Maria is.
03:06Which I already know.
03:08The pacing sucked, and it was uncreative.
03:11So the only thing I got out of this issue was seeing flashbacks of her friendship with Shadow.
03:15But the majority of this issue was blatant padding where Shadow flies around until he eventually ramps into Black Doom.
03:22And one-shots him like he was the wimpiest wimp ever.
03:26It was so boring, and I don't see the point of it ending with Maria not surviving when it's an alternate universe.
03:35Then it would have had a real point to existing by having a good ending this time, instead of basically ending the same way as the game anyways.
03:42Except, at least it's Maria who convinced them, instead of somebody else.
03:50I guess the word mangaka means writer, so I'm going to assume the writer was Yuki Imada.
03:56You come to a story for a good experience, and my whole experience was boredom.
04:04So what kind of good story is that for me?
04:07Vibes alone don't make a good story, and especially not an amazing manga.
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