>>531458996
Nowhere did I mention Tails in the manga as what canon game Tails was like.
I merely posted it as an attached image. It was divorced from my point. Though I do quite like Manga Tails I am willing to acknowledge the ways in which he differs.
Sonic and Knuckles have not been 'friendly rivals'. Knuckles is actively distrustful towards Sonic in Adventure 1 and Advance 2 where Dr. Eggman tricks him that Sonic is up to no good. Repeating his earlier distrust towards Sonic. The two are not friends. Rather, rivals. Even their interaction in Advance 3 is shown to be confrontational. The two are not friends as depicted by the original writers for Sonic. The first writer to try and push for 'Sonic and Knuckles as friends' was Maekawa with Heroes. Tails is Sonic's friendly rival, because they're friends who push and challenge each other. It's Sonic's goal to make sure he stays ahead of Tails while Tails desires to keep up. The possibility of Tails keeping up, and matching, but not just that, potentially surpassing Sonic, constantly pushes Sonic to improve and try his best. And Sonic as a constant goal gives Tails something to aspire to. It plays into their flat never ending character arcs. The issue is, Maekawa did not understand this nuance or how to write Tails in this regard. Instead, he wrote Tails as Sonic's 'technical assistant buddy' flanderizing his role as the team's mechanic which got worse as western writers started treating him as a stand-in for Rotor and Sally.
