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>the people who made the characters and franchise

Almost none of them are actually involved in Sonic anymore. Iizuka is almost as much of a pretender as any elevated comics writer, but his heart is in the right place.

>Convince me not the be a JP purist

Sonic 2/3/K were made in the west with largely American staff and are considered essential to the canon. If the timeline had tilted even slightly in a different direction we probably would have had a Comix-Zone-vibes Archie game back then too.

>It's written by fanfiction.net writers and fancomic artists from deviantart.

Maekawa era was fundamentally fanfiction already.

I'm playing devil's advocate. Sonic CD is my favorite Sonic game.