Sonic x Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings

This 3 part series, which serves as a prologue to Sonic X Shadow Generations, follows Shadow and his journey to unravel the mystery of black dooms return. Each episode is directed amazing, and I'd say the characterization is the best part. Team dark is back and the way they play off each other works really well. Shadow himself is the best he's ever been in the late 2000s, he shows emotion, he's not just grumpy all the time. The ending scene with rouge and the gun commander talking about Maria, then the cut to shadow in the aircraft thinking of her, with the song "without you" in the backround, in my opinion is the best directed scene. Overall, this animation definitely helped fix shadows character as of recent.