Sonic X

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Japanese: ソニック X

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Type: TV

Episodes: 78

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 6, 2003 to Mar 28, 2004

Premiered: Spring 2003

Broadcast: Sundays at 08:30 (JST)

Producers: TV Tokyo

Licensors: 4Kids Entertainment, Discotek Media

Studios: TMS Entertainment

Source: Game

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Theme: Mecha

Demographic: Kids

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG - Children

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Score: 6.55¹ (scored by 46,134 users)

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Ranked: #6083²

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Popularity: #2293

Members: 76,244

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Sonic the Hedgehog's typical irreverence leads to the coveted chaos emeralds being caught in the crossfire and rendered unstable just before activation. The resulting chaos control engulfs everything for miles around Dr. Eggman's base, and, with scrambled input, nobody can predict the outcome.

Isolated from his friends and enemies alike, Sonic awakes in a strange world: an unknown city surrounded by mysterious people. He realizes he has been warped across the universe to an entirely different planet—Earth. As he rushes to escape the equally confused authorities, Sonic finds himself falling head-first into the pool of the illustrious Thorndyke family.

Thankfully, Christopher, Thonrdykes' son, saves Sonic and offers protection from a society that mistakenly believes him to be hostile. Sheltered by the family, Sonic resolves to regroup with his friends, save this new world from the threat he brought to them, and find a way home.

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Background

Note: The series was broadcasted for 52 episodes on TV Tokyo from April 6, 2003 until March 28, 2004. However, the episodes 53-78 were broadcasted together with the rest outside of Japan in the US and France but a decision to broadcast them in Japan was never made, although there exists a Japanese language version for those episodes.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Sonic the Hedgehog

Main

Kanemaru, Junichi
Japanese

Prower, Miles

Main

Hirohashi, Ryou
Japanese

The Echidna, Knuckles

Main

Canna, Nobutoshi
Japanese

Robotnik, Ivo

Main

Otsuka, Chikao
Japanese

Rose, Amy

Main

Kawata, Taeko
Japanese

The Rabbit, Cream

Main

Aoki, Sayaka
Japanese

Thorndyke, Christopher

Main

Kobayashi, Sanae
Japanese

Shadow the Hedgehog

Supporting

Yusa, Kouji
Japanese

The Bat, Rouge

Supporting

Ochiai, Rumi
Japanese

The Cat, Big

Supporting

Nagasako, Takashi
Japanese

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Haigney, Michael

Producer, Script

Kamegaki, Hajime

Director

Moriwaki, Makoto

Episode Director, Storyboard

Tomonaga, Kazuhide

Episode Director

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Opening Theme

"Sonic Drive" by Hironobu Kageyama & Hideaki Takatori

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Ending Theme

	1: "Mi-Ra-I" by Run&Gun (eps 1-13)
	2: "Hikaru Michi" by Aya Hiroshige (eps (eps 14-39 and 53-78))
	3: "T.O.P" by KP & URU (eps 40-52)

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Jun 30, 2020

KnucklesOfficial

Recommended

It's the best because the characters and story are the greatest ever written. If you hate this show you are probably lying. The plot is simple yet is the most enjoyable thing I've ever experienced. The conflicts feel very real and are not forced. This show is the pinnacle of entertainment and can never be topped. This show is easily the reason I am still alive to this day and continues to give me joy with each rewatch. Some people may be turned off by the fact that it's based on a video game, but trust me, this show will not disappoint you.

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Mar 11, 2012

NeonKazma

Mixed Feelings

I don't really wanna review Sonic X. What about you, Tails? Do you want to? (Tails staring at me bored and pissed) Well...... Sorry Tails, I have to do this anyway. We all know Sonic. He's the badass mascot of SEGA that spawned in the Genesis in the 90's and became a pop culture phenomenon. When news began of a Sonic anime in the works, fans were thrilled with excitement and maybe Sonic can translate well into anime. But then came 4Kids! and...... The results were not pretty. Hated by both Sonic and anime fans, Sonic X was a huge failure among fans of Sonic, ... due to ridiculous plot, ripping off other animes and terrible new characters.

Sonic X begins with, who else, Sonic and his friends going to Dr. Eggman's base to rescue Cream and her Chao, when a nuclear reaction on the Chaos Emerald exploded and sending Sonic and his pals to Earth. That makes sense right guys?..... Moving on. After the weird explosion, Sonic gets chased by cops and ends up falling into the pool of a kid's house named Chris Thorndyke, a 10-year-old boy who lives with his grandfather Chuck and her maid Ella. So in the first season, it begins with a bang and then it goes a little bit strange for me. First, why the hell did Sonic and his friends end on Earth? DIdn't the place that they live is basically Earth? If not, then what's the name of their world then?! (although they did explain this in the second season of Sonic X, but the way they explain it is messed up). Second, how can a Chaos Emerald send you trough time? Cause that was never even in the games and things get even crazier in the second season of Sonic X, when they introduced another new character Cosmo and boy, they crammed up a lot of story into Season 2, cause the amount of backstory that they give to the plot in Sonic X just screams epic bullshit all the way in my opinion. Also, i found out that Sonic X in Japan was more violent and bloody than the US version, they even show Sonic bleeding while in a fight with Shadow in the Japanese version and hearing both Sonic and Tails swear a lot in the Japanese version, as well as Amy saying "Fuck". It was so controversial that 4Kids! edited the living crap out of Sonic X, so that it may receive a TV-Y7 rating in the US.

There are some things that I really like about Sonic X. First the animation. While it's not really perfect and there are a few incredibly bland backgrounds at times, the art and character models do look really good and fluid. Character models really bring the Sonic feel to life and they really work on each of the characters personalities from the game into the anime. the sense of speed really goes perfectly with the art and it really looks damn good on screen. Also, i like how the creators are, at least, giving some of this characters some depth to it, where many other Sonic games failed. There's one part where Sonic comes to see Amy, but Amy gets angry at him cause he always left her without telling her and then Sonic actually gives a Rose, apologizes to her and telling Amy that he would actually stay with her by the end of the world in the Jap version! Holy shit, Sonic, that's pretty damn deep. Also in the Jap version, the character development in Shadow was really great and I really can't believe i care for the guy, but really I just did. To be fair as well, while this anime does sometimes rips off some cliches from animes, it does deliver some very funny moments that make Sonic X worth the time to enjoy.

Now the main reason I think Sonic X fails is because of the shitty English dub and dialogue script that 4Kids! wrote for the US version of Sonic X (in which I do agree on). Voice-acting can be a hit or miss and it does fit the voices for each character, but sometimes the English voices can be extremely corny and cheesy and hell and the terrible script for the 4Kids! version ruins the show. It often feels rushed and really ruining some of the character development by making it too damn simple, i mean, really, couldn't they write something better than the script that these voice-actors were given to do?. Also, characters like Chris, Cosmo and etc. are really bland and useless. Chris looks like Sora from Kingdom Hearts and basically, he's just there to be a buddy with Sonic, nothing more and Cosmo is just for Tails to have a love interest, just like Sonic and Amy.

If you wanna see Sonic X, see the Japanese version instead. It has better English subtitles dialouge and some nice character development to it. I don't recommend the English dub, cause 4Kids! really ruined it by cutting too much plot from the Japanese version and just rushing the series for a quick-buck. If Sonic X was dubbed by Funimation instead of 4Kids!, it would have been so much better for Sonic X, cause Funimation only does little editing on animes all the damn time. It's not the greatest thing ever, but it's definitely not the worst thing ever made, it's actually pretty enjoyable and it worth the interest if you like, but please, see the Japanese version, not the 4Kids! one.... Thank you.

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Mar 12, 2015

literaturenerd

Not Recommended

Overview:

Few names in the history of video games have raised controversy and fierce arguments like Sonic the Hedgehog. In the early 1990s, Sonic was almost universally beloved. His games were fast, simple, and fun. They didn't have the massive number of worlds, secrets, and re-playability that Super Mario for SNES had, but they were the best thing on the Genesis/Masterdrive system...other than Rocket Knight Adventures of course. However, since the Sega Saturn came out, Sonic has starred in a lot of REALLY horrible games including: Sonic R, Sonic Fighters, Sonic Shuffle, Sonic 06, Sonic Free Riders, Sonic Boom: the Rise Lyric etc. At this point ... Sonic is an absolute joke and most Sonic fans are angry Sega kids in their late 20s and early 30s driven by nostalgia, bitterness, and a refusal to admit they should have just bought a SNES. "Shut up you damn kids! Sonic is good!"

Why would I even review a Sonic anime? Simply put, I was a Sega kid. During the late 80s and early 1990s, there was a resentment of Japan in the US caused by fear of Japan's rapidly growing economy, similar to how Americans feel about China now. Few Americans disliked Japan more than my old man, largely thanks to his partially Chinese heritage. Whereas the SNES was filled with anime inspired JRPGs and fully embraced its Japanese origin, Sega in the US focused on sports games, beat em ups, and if you didn't know better (my dad didn't) you would think Sega was a real, red blooded American company. Even though retrospectively the SNES was a superior system in graphics, sound, game library and every other category, I ended up with a Sega genesis because MURICA! ...Even though Sega is in fact a Japanese company. My friends got to play games that revolutionized storytelling in video games like Final Fantasy 6, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, etc. I got to play really primitive football games where the playbook complexity was at the level of "run play" or "pass play", all the teams had the same stats, and you were lucky if they even had the real team names, let alone the player names. I got to play platformers with NO draw distance like Tazmania, where everything is trial and error rather than actual skill. I got to enjoy inferior ports of games with 1/2 the levels and quality of their SNES counterparts like Sunset Riders and Hyperstone Heist. If you were a dumb jock who was around college age in the early 1990s, the Sega Genesis was a passable system. Otherwise it fucking SUCKED! We Sega kids are so forgiving and dedicated towards Sonic because he was basically ALL we had God Damn it! Other than Sparkster-Sama the Rocket Knight of course (Peace be upon Him).

Story and characters: 3/10

The story is that Sonic, Robotnik, and all the other Sonic characters get teleported to Earth thanks to a bullshit plot device and Sonic must team up with a young boy named Chris and his other human friends to stop Robotnik (Eggman), retrieve the chaos emeralds, and return home. That sounds pretty simple right? The problem with Sonic X, like the later Sonic games is that they feel the need to try tell a ridiculously convoluted story and end up failing miserably. Sonic was never really about the story in the first place! Stop trying to make Sonic into Final Fantasy! The best story for any Sonic game or show was easily the American cartoon Sonic SatAm, which kept a fairly simple premise, didn't have a million worthless characters, and focused on the theme of environmental preservation vs. industrialization. Sonic didn't have lots of human sidekicks because the only humans were Robotnik and his assistant, who had taken over Sonic's world and were rapidly destroying the planet's environment and turning the animals into robots. The quality came not from how mindblowing the story itself was, but HOW the story was told and the overall tone and world the show created. There was no need for ancient deities, time travel, and worthless friends like "Vector the Crocodile". Sonic Team should have realized that overly complex sub-plots and extra sidekicks wasn't improving the quality, but they keep reaching for the stove and getting burned over and over again! After the first couple seasons, the show could have ended with a small fragment of decency. Instead we get a time skip and a completely unnecessary 3rd season that more than jumped the shark. It would be more accurate to say it pulled a Dr. Strangeglove and cheerfully rode the A-bomb into oblivion.

Art: 2/10

Let me be real honest here. Sonic X looks like crap. I don't like the human art models, I don't like the animal character models, I thought the animation was atrocious. I really don't have anything positive to say on this topic.

Sound: 3/10

Sonic may have had some faults, but Sonic games have traditionally had AMAZING quality soundtracks. The Sonic OSTs for Sonic 1, 2, 3, and Sonic and Knuckles are some of the catchiest, most awesome video game music ever written. Even Michael Jackson himself helped compose the soundtrack for Sonic 3! How is the music in Sonic X? Lets just say it REALLY doesn't live up to the legacy of Sonic music.

Overall: 3/10

Sonic X did NOTHING to help breathe new life into the ailing Sonic franchise. I stand with the majority of critics in my opinion that at this point, Sonic should be taken out back and put out of his misery like Old Yeller. The only entertainment you can get out of this show is that the voice actors for the American dub are the same poor sons of bitches that had to dub the Video Brinquedo (Brazilian Pixar) knockoff cartoons. Every time Robotnik says anything I want to chime in "precisely". Cookie if you get that last joke. Even though this series was aimed at children, I can't honestly recommend this one to young viewers, old Sonic fans, or really anyone else. Other than maybe extreme masochists.

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