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Inktober 2025 - Day 9: Heavy.
🟣"Do you hear somethi-IIIIIING!? INCOMING!!!"
🟢"I DON'T WANNA BE A PANCAKE!"
🟡" ! ! ! "
#Inktober #Inktober2025 #InktoberDay9 #InktoberHeavy #Heavy #SonicHeroes #FangTheSniper #BeanTheDynamite #BarkThePolarBear #sonicfanart #Hooligans

October 23, 2025 at 3:33 AM

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TOUMA

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Blast The Cat
Coloring Test
頑張って塗ってみました
ふぅー

November 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM

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GamingYoshi Fanatic

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Day 22 has the tag "Button"!

At just the press of a button, Leon can activate Boost Fire!

#FZero #Inktober #Inktober2025

November 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM

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すびかか

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November 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM

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Nazrafer 🍻

@misterapiary.bsky.social

A Robux commission for a great friend of mine !! :D
#fangthesniper #fangthehunter #art #myart #sth #sonic

November 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM

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Fantastic Mr Flint

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For a wanted outlaw, Fang sure likes to spend time posing for the camera. #FursuitFriday

November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM

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3D render of Fang The Sniper, from ‘Sonic The Fighters’. His fang only appears on one side of his face.

November 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM

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The GHZ

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Fang was conceived by S&T2 planner Tadashi Ihoroi and designed—with Naoto Ōshima’s blessing—by artist Shin’ichi Higashi, both of whom had joined Sega about a year earlier in 1993.

Higashi was inspired by the compact design of Opa-Opa and the wackiness of long-running gag manga Tensai Bakabon.

Photo of Tadashi Ihoroi in 2000, from the November 24, 2000 issue of Dreamcast Magazine, page 62. Ihoroi was the game planner for Sonic & Tails (Sonic Chaos) and its sequel, Sonic & Tails 2 (Triple Trouble). Shin'ichi Higashi credits him with coming up with Fang's wacky personality.

Photo of Shin'ichi Higashi circa 1998, from the Burning Rangers Official Guide. Higashi had worked as an artist on Sonic & Tails (Sonic Chaos) and Sonic Drift, but Fang was his first original character at Sega.

Opa-Opa on the Fantasy Zone arcade flyer.

November 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM

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The GHZ

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I don't blame Takashi Iizuka for shunning the 8-bit games all these years—they're very much a “you hadda be there” thing

But I was, and I love them still

And I love Fang, even though I don't think there's any other character in the series that's drifted as far from his designers' original intent 🧵

Screenshot of a Fang boss fight in Sonic & Tails 2 / Triple Trouble. In the boss fights, Fang always has some kind of attachment—in this case, a drill bit—installed on his air bike, but he always struggles to use them effectively and ends up getting blasted by his own machines more often than not.

Art of Fang, probably drawn by Shin'ichi Higashi. From the August 5, 1994 issue of Famitsū, page 80.

November 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM

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The GHZ

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And here’s where things start getting weird: the ad specifically describes the new character as a “jerboa-wolf hybrid” who “lives in subspace” and has a “cunning personality.” Furthermore, they are specifically asking for “cool” names.

There's no hint of his comicality, and wait—jerboa/wolf HYBRID?

Promotion soliciting name ideas from the August 5, 1994 issue of Famitsū, page 80. Prizes promised to winners include a Game Gear carrying case and "the latest games."

November 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM

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The GHZ

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So for 30 years, we just had to accept the uncomfortable reality that at some point somewhere in the Sonic universe, a wolf and a jerboa got very close.

Anyway, in the Oct. 14, 1994 issue of Famitsū, two winners were announced in the naming contest, both evidently having submitted the name “Fang.”

Fang the Sniper name announcement from the October 14, 1994 issue of Famitsū, page 75. I've blurred the names of the two winners to avoid culpability should any ravenous Sonic historians attempt to locate and pelt these hapless now middle-aged men with machine-translated questions. But you can find the original unblurred scans at Gaming Alexandria, if you want. Please promise to be good.

November 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM

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The GHZ

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The “Sniper” part came from the dev team, though of course that hits different in the current sociopolitical climate than it did in 1994, clearly causing some headaches for the lore council.

But bottom line, you can see how people starting perceiving Fang as a cool type character.

Even within Sega

“Nack the Weasel” from issue 122 of the Archie Sonic comic, illustrated by J. Axer. Nack/Fang's early appearances, such as those in the comics, tended to portray him as much more wily and competent than his depiction in the games.

Nack from November 12, 1996 issue of the Sonic the Comic, illustrated by Richard Elson.

November 19, 2025 at 11:34 AM

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Devonxy

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Wreck #Growtober2025

October 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM

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Jonathan Higgins

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I grew up playing my copy of Sonic Drift 2, and I never actually saw the credits until now-ish. The game doesn't have a save battery. So if you're 7 years old or whatever, you just kind of assume, "Run a cup, then it's over."

Once I actually knew how to beat it, I ran the other cups just because.