>>3123438I wouldn't put too much stock in any of the anthology manga, as great as some of the strips are. It also portrays Noctis as a partypooper who's rude to "Noctobo" and threatens to eat it when the actual game shows he gets super gooey over animals, especially the black Chocobo chick you take to Wiz. And there's a strip that's entirely about the Chocofamily fandom cliche (Ignis and Gladio are the Team Mom and Dad respectively, while Noctis and Prompto are actual manchildren who can barely function without them; frequently the former two view it as an actual nuclear family, and are fucking, while their "children" are too) that's basically the FFXV equivalent of the MCU Superfamily. As in, cute and popular, but not well supported by canon, especially as time goes on, but able to grow and sustain itself largely off of fandom momentum, and injections of new canon info are shaped to fit its molds rather than the other way around.
The anthology manga is entirely fan-submitted. None of the staff actually wrote for them, whoever was in charge of it just gave the OK on comics they found well-drawn enough to compile it within the book. And going by the first example they weren't running very stringent checks on whether they had to be in-character or not as long as they were cute and well-drawn. I mean, I guess they'd have to or else none of the funny Ardyn entries would make it.
