Sonic X

Sonic X (Japanese: X Hepburn: Sonikku

Ekkusu) is a Japanese anime television series created by
TMS Entertainment and based on the Sonic the Hedgehog
video game series published by Sega. Sonic X initially
ran for fty-two episodes, which were broadcast on TV
Tokyo from April 6, 2003, to March 28, 2004; a further
twenty-six were aired in non-Japanese regions such as the
United States, Europe, and the Middle East from 2005 to
2006. The show's American localization and broadcasting were handled by 4Kids Entertainmentwhich heavily
edited the content and created new musicuntil 2012,
when Saban Brands obtained the rights to the series, and
later in 2015 by Discotek Media.

taining the Emeralds, which activates the Chaos Controltechnique. This teleports Sonic, Eggman, and some
of Sonic's other anthropomorphic friendsTails, Amy
Rose, Cream the Rabbit (with Cheese the Chao), Big
the Cat (with his frog Froggy), Rouge the Bat, Knuckles
the Echidna, and the Chaotix (a detective crew comprising Espio the Chameleon, Vector the Crocodile, and
Charmy Bee)to Earth, the parallel-universe version of
their world. Sonic is chased by police, escapes into a mansion's swimming pool, and is rescued by a twelve-yearold boy named Chris Thorndyke, who lives there with
his movie-star mother Lindsey, corporate executive father Nelson, scientist grandfather Chuck, maid and chef
The plot follows a group of anthropomorphic animals Ella, and butler Tanaka. Chris tries to hide the animals
originating from the gamessuch as Sonic the Hedge- from his family until Cream accidentally reveals them,
hog, Tails, Amy Rose, and Cream the Rabbit and a but they all build up a good rapport with Chris' family
human boy named Chris Thorndyke, whom the animals and with Chris' friends Danny, Francis, and Helen.
meet after teleporting from their home planet to Earth. The animals still want to return home, so they repeatWhile on Earth, they repeatedly scue with antagonist edly scue for the Emeralds with Eggman, his robot asDoctor Eggman and his robots over control of the power- sistantsthe hyperactive, attention-seeking Bokkun and
ful Chaos Emeralds, while also adjusting to their status as the bumbling Bocoe and Decoeand his larger, armed
celebrities. The nal story arc sees the friends return with robots. Eggman plans to take over the world, catching the
Chris to their world, where they enter outer space with a attention of the unnamed nation's President, so Knuckles,
newfound plant-like creature named Cosmo and ght an Rouge, and federal agent Topaz work to stop him. The
other animals soon join the crusade and, when Eggman
army of creatures called the Metarex.
is defeated, they are all hailed as heroes. However, the
Sonic X received mixed reviews from critics. Generally, writers criticized its American localization and some unfazed Eggman awakens a creature named Chaos from
a huge gem called the Master Emerald. The animals ght
of the characters, while being more generous toward its
story and aesthetics. The series was very popular in the a losing battle to retrieve the Emeralds until Chaos abUnited States, though less so in its native Japan. The sorbs all seven and becomes giant, but an echidna girl
show's merchandise included an edutainment video game named Tikal, who entombed herself and Chaos in the
for the Leapster, a trading card game, a comic book se- Master Emerald millennia ago, emerges to help placate
ries featuring an original storyline, and various toys and him. After Sonic uses the Chaos Emeralds to become
other items. The phrase gotta go fast, the title of Super Sonic, he defeats Chaos, who returns to the Master
the show's North American theme song, has survived as Emerald with Tikal.
a Sonic catchphrase for over a decade after the show's ini- Shortly afterwards, Eggman nds his grandfather Gerald
tial release.
Robotnik's diary and Gerald's old project Shadow in a
military base. After being released by Eggman, Shadow
breaks into a museum to steal an Emerald and is mistaken for Sonic, which gets Sonic arrested. Amy rescues
1 Plot
him, but Shadow, Eggman, and the duplicitous Rouge
escape to the space colony ARK, where Eggman threatSee also: List of Sonic X episodes, List of Sonic the ens to use a weapon called the Eclipse Cannon to destroy
Hedgehog characters, Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure Earth if Earth does not submit to his rule; he blows up
half of the Moon to prove his power. Eggman collects
2 and Sonic Battle
the Emeralds to power the Cannon, but this triggers a program Gerald set up decades ago, which will destroy Earth
Sonic the Hedgehog attempts to destroy the base of in hours. Everyone works together to shut it down exDoctor Eggman and retrieve seven Chaos Emeralds. One cept Shadow, who is unsympathetic until Chris convinces
of Eggman's robots inadvertently shoots a machine con1

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him. Shadow and Sonic power up using the Emeralds
and reroute the ARK away from Earth, seemingly killing
Shadow. Eggman rebuilds the Moon, seemingly out of
remorse, but its position shifts, creating a solar eclipse,
so he manufactures and sells Sunshine Ballsto replicate sunlight. Sonic sees through his greedy motivations,
and Eggman is arrested for fraud. Bokkun activates a
robot named Emerl, who quickly allies with the animals,
and Eggman escapes prison. Emerl wins an Emerald in a
martial arts tournament involving numerous hero and villain characters, but he goes berserk and begins to wreck
the city, so Cream and Cheese have to destroy him.

are ominously controlling a planet that is made of water

and contains a Planet Egg. After Sonic almost drowns in
it, the planet begins turning into a giant seed; the Metarex
reveal that, because they have lost the battle, they will destroy the galaxy with this planet. Cosmo sees a vision
from her mother Earthia, telling her that she must sacrice herself to save the rest. She fuses with the giant
seed and instructs Tails to use the Blue Typhoon's cannon to re Super Sonic and Super Shadow at her and the
seed and destroy them. He does, in tears the whole time,
and annihilates the Metarex. Back on the animals' world,
Sonic and Shadow reappear and solemnly inform Tails
that they could not revive Cosmo and only found a seed
of hers; Cream and Amy try to cheer him up. With a
change of heart, Eggman builds a device for Chris to return home but promptly reverts to his old ways after Chris
leaves. The series ends with Cosmo's seed sprouting and
Chris returning home.

Later, two government physicists show up at Chris' mansion to announce that the animals' world and Earth were
once a single world split in two by a cataclysmic event,
but are rejoining, which will stop time irreversibly, and
the only way to stop it is to send the animals back home.
Tails and Chuck begin to build a gate to teleport the animals back to their own world with Chaos Control, but
Chris does not want them to leave. When it is nished
and all of the animals but Sonic have left, Chris suddenly 2
shuts the machine down and whisks Sonic into the woods
to hide. Sonic is understanding, and Chris' parents nd 2.1
him and promise to spend more time with him. With
Chris' approval, Sonic returns to his own planet, stopping
the merging of the worlds. However, Chris vows that one
day, he will see Sonic again.
Six months later, a race of villainous robots known as
the Metarex attempt to steal the Emeralds from Sonic,
but he scatters them across the galaxy. Meanwhile on
Earth, where six years have passed and Chris is now eighteen, Chris builds another device to return to the animals' world; he is twelve again when he arrives. A sick
plant-like girl named Cosmo lands on their planet and
they nurse her back to health, so she joins them, and
they all board Tails' new spaceship, the Blue Typhoon.
On the Typhoon, they scour the galaxy for the Emeralds
and Planet Eggs(objects that allow life to ourish
on planets, which the Metarex have stolen to depopulate
the galaxy) and ght the Metarex at every turn. Eggman
joins the Metarex shortly after. Along the way, Tails
and Cosmo slowly fall in love with each other. Later,
Rouge nds Shadow alive in a capsule on Eggman's ship
and releases him. At one point, he saves Chris from
the Metarex before disappearing, but he reappears and
tries to kill Cosmo, much to Tails' anger. The Metarex's
leader, Dark Oak, appears and reveals that the Metarex
and Cosmo are of the same species and that they secretly
implanted a tracking device in her brain while extinguishing the rest of their kind; she has been an unwitting spy
ever since. Chris, Knuckles, and Tails notice that removing the device will likely destroy her sight and hearing
forever. Knuckles pushes for it to be removed anyway,
but Tails refuses, so the surgery is called o and the battle against the Metarex continues.

HISTORY

History
Creation and development

This scene shows (clockwise from top left) Sonic, Tails, and
two original major characters Cosmo and Chris in the typical outer-space setting.

The show was created by TMS Entertainment (also subsidiary of SEGA Holdings Co., Ltd.).* [2]* [3] It was the
rst anime series based on the Sonic universe. It was primarily inuenced by other anime rather than work from
the West, and was created for a Japanese audience.* [4]
Yuji Naka, then the head of Sonic Team, lled in as executive producer, and Yuji Uekawa created all of the original characters.* [2] Most of the series consists of original
content featuring new as well as established characters,
but the second season is mostly based on the plots of Sonic
Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2. While traditionally animated, it includes non-outlined CGI elements for things
such as Sonic's homing attack.* [3]

Two trailers for the series were produced. The rst was
developed before Cheese had been given a name in Sonic
Advance 2 (2002); it referred to Cheese simply asChao
The heroes nd the Chaotix and Shadow, and everyone . It was made up largely of footage that would later appear
heads to the center of the universe, where the Metarex in the series' intro, but also of unused scenes featuring

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Music

unique anthropomorphic animals.* [5] Sega showed o

the second, which was narrated in Japanese, at its booth
at the World Hobby Fair video gaming event in February 2003.* [6] It consisted mostly of scenes from the rst
few episodes, followed by introductions to the main characters. However, it also showed a still frame of a silver
anthropomorphic hedgehog (not identied as Silver the
Hedgehog) who never appeared in the series.* [7]

3
some reason.* [13] He recalled being given only short
samples of Eggman's voice from the gameshe was not
told specically which gameand brief descriptions of
his characters' roles.* [12]* [13] Beginning with Shadow
the Hedgehog, the cast of Sonic X would assume their respective voice roles in all Sonic games released between
2005 and 2010, at which point all the roles were recast
with the exception of Mike Pollock as Eggman.* [14]

Several of the Japanese performers had voiced their characters in the games, but they were also given ample information about their characters' roles in the anime. Chris'
voice actress Sanae Kobayashi was not sure she would be
able to eectively communicate Chris' growth as a person owing to Sonic's presence, but found that a worthwhile goal. Chikao tsuka, who voiced Eggman, found
him a dicult character to play due to the tension in his
voice and tsuka's desire to have children who watched
the show recognize the character as a villain but not hate
him.* [1]

Sonic X aired in Japan on TV Tokyo's 8:30 am time

slot from April 6, 2003,* [15] to March 28, 2004.* [16]
It consisted of three seasons, each of them 26 half-hour
episodes long. The series suered from poor ratings in
Japan, so the third season has never aired in that country despite being produced there.* [3] 4Kids licensed the
series in North America from the beginning;* [3] ShoPro
Entertainment was also made a license holder in November 2003.* [17] It aired in North America on the Fox Box
block of Fox channels.* [18] The series was also localized
for other countries in Europe, Asia,* [9] and the Middle
*
Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka believed that Sonic X East. [19] In June 2012, the bankrupt 4Kids sold its Sonic
*
and its merchandise, along with the game Sonic Heroes, X license to Saban Brands's Kidsco Media Ventures. [20]
had helped expose the Sonic franchise to a new generation The series was released on DVD; in Japan, only seasons
of potential gamers in 2003, and he dubbed it a Sonic one and two were released, and their 52 episodes spanned
Yearas a result.* [8] More boldly, Naka hoped that Sonic 13 discs.* [21] 4Kids released theProject ShadowDVD
X alone would cause the popularity of the Sonic series in North America, covering the rst arc that focused on
to skyrocket, as that of the Pokmon series did after its Shadow (episodes 3338), on November 15, 2005 to
tie in with the release of the game Shadow the Hedgeanime adaptation was rst released.* [9]
hog.* [22]

2.2

Broadcast and localization

4Kids Entertainment handled the show's American localization. The episodes were heavily edited for content and
length; 4Kids has been described by Destructoid as being
infamousamong anime fans for this type of overzealous
editing. 4Kids removed alcohol consumption and coarse
language, instances of breaking the fourth wall, and numerous romantic scenes.* [10] Unlike some other series
that 4Kids translated around the early- to mid-2000s,
such as Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Sonic X suered no
full episodes being cut. Producer Michael Haigney personally disliked realistic violence in children's programs,
but had not intended to make massive changes himself.
Instead, he was bound by Fox Broadcasting Company's
strict guidelines, which forbid content such as smoking
and strong violence. In 2006, near the end of the show's
American production, Haigney stated in an interview that
he had never played a Sonic game, read the comics, or
watched any of the previous Sonic animated series.* [11]
4Kids found new voice actors rather than using those
from the games, with auditions beginning in early
2003.* [12] They invited Mike Pollock to audition for
Eggman, having known him from his work on Ultimate
Muscle and Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, and chose him for
his yelling and pitch-wavering talents;* [13] Pollock also
voiced Ella.* [12] 4Kids allowed Pollock to make minor
alterations to the dialogue when lines "[didn't] work for

2.3 Music
The Japanese version of Sonic X was scored by Yoshihiro Ike. Its opening theme was Sonic Drive, performed by Hironobu Kageyama and Hideaki Takatori.
The series included three ending themes:Mi-ra-i(
Future) by Run&Gun for episodes 113,Hikari
Michi( Shining Road) by Aya Hiroshige for 14
39 and again for 5378, and T.O.Pby Uru for 40
52.* [2] 4Kids hired several composers to write a background score for the North American release for both
artistic and commercial reasons.* [11] The North American opening and closing theme, titled Gotta Go Fast
, was performed by Norman J. Grossfeld and Russell Velazquez.* [2] A soundtrack titled Sonic X ~Original Sound
Tracks~ was released in Japan on March 8, 2004; it consisted of 40 tracks of original music from the rst two
seasons.* [23]

3 Other media
Sonic X was extensively merchandised in various forms
of media and other products. Two Game Boy Advance Videos of episodes from the rst season of Sonic
X were released in May 2004.* [24]* [25] In October
2004, ShoPro licensed four manufacturers to create Sonic

4 RECEPTION

X merchandise; they variously produced items such as

bedding, beach towels, backpacks, stationery, and pajamas.* [26] Six Sonic X novels were published between
2005 and 2007: Aqua Planet,* [27] Dr. Eggman Goes
to War,* [28] Battle at Ice Palace,* [29] and Desperately
Seeking Sonic by Charlotte Fullerton,* [30] Meteor Shower
Messenger by Paul Ruditis,* [31] and Spaceship Blue Typhoon by Diana G. Gallagher.* [32]

3.1

Comic series

Another Happy Meal game based on Big the Cat shing

arrived the following year.* [52]
LeapFrog Enterprises released a Sonic X educational
math game for its Leapster handheld game console; it
was released in 2005 in North America* [53] and 2007 in
Europe.* [54] The game stars Sonic and Chris, who must
rescue Tails, Amy, and Knuckles from Eggman. It is a
fast-paced platform/action game in which Sonic runs and
jumps through levels and destroys Eggman's robots along
the way. Periodically, Sonic must answer math questions
to continue. The game features three levels, each with its
own math concepts: the city Station Square (sequencing,
counting in increments); Angel Island, the home of the
Master Emerald (addition); and Eggman's base (subtraction).* [55] There are also math-based minigames unrelated to the levels to supplement these skills.* [56]

Archie Comics, publisher of the main Sonic the Hedgehog

comics, started a Sonic X series in 2005. It was originally
set to run for only four issues, but was extended to 40 issues due to high demand. The last issue was released in
December 2008, and it kicked o the main series' Sonic
Universe arc. The comics were written by Ian Flynn,
who also authors the main comic series.* [33] Some issues
were published in Jetix Magazine in the United Kingdom 3.3 Trading card game
and Italy.* [34]
Score Entertainment created a Sonic X collectible card
While the comics are set during the Sonic X timeline, game for two players, released in 2005. Players battle for
their plot is original. Eggman imprisons humans inside Chaos Emeralds; whoever gets three rst wins. Each turn,
robots and tries to use them to kill the animals, but the both players lay out ve cards face-down and ip over
animals destroy the robots.* [35] Eggman uses malicious one at a time; whichever card has a lower number value
Chao to destroy Station Square, but Tikal and Chaos ar- is eliminated. Eliminating the other player's cards and
rive from the past, return the Chao to normal, and bring combining the special abilities of one's own cards allows
them back to the past.* [36] Soon, Sonic nds a machine one to score rings; whichever player has the most rings at
in the desert and thinks nothing of it,* [37] but after ght- the end of the turn wins an Emerald. As the game does
ing with Eggman in Paris and a bizarre world created by not emphasize collecting rare cards, a few booster packs
the doctor,* [38]* [39] Eggman reveals the desert machine are enough to build a competent deck. KidzWorld gave
was his and it begins to wreck Station Square. Sonic de- a positive review, praising its ease of learning, low cost,
feats it, but he is accused of working with Eggman, so he and inherent strategy, but also noting that it feels more
and Eggman are both locked up.* [40] Nelson bails Sonic like a generic card game with Sonic characters than like a
out of jail, and he saves Cream and Chris from some wholly Sonic-based product.* [57]
ghosts.* [41]
Eggman enacts more malicious schemes based on holidays like Christmas,* [42] Valentine's Day,* [43] and
St. Patrick's Day,* [44] Afterwards, he temporarily res
Decoe and Bocoe and creates replacements, Dukow
and Bukow,* [45] who kidnap Sonic and give him to
an organization called S.O.N.I.C.X. Sonic escapes with
ease,* [46] but S.O.N.I.C.X. repeatedly tries to ruin his
reputation.* [47]* [48] Meanwhile, the animals take on
Eggman in his various schemesincluding becoming a
wrestler and creating a circusto keep the Emeralds from
him.* [49]* [50] In the nal issue, Metal Sonic appears and
allies with Eggman to defeat Sonic, but Shadow steps in
and warps himself and Metal Sonic to another dimension.* [51]

3.2

Video games

In 2003, McDonald's packaged ve dierent singlebutton dedicated console games, mostly based on various
sports, with Happy Meals to promote Sonic X: two featuring Sonic and one each for Tails, Knuckles, and Shadow.

4 Reception
4.1 Critical reception
Sonic X has had a middling reception; Conrad Zimmerman of Destructoid cited its horrible localizationas
a main reason for negativity.* [10] Tim Jones of THEM
Anime gave the show two stars out of ve and criticized
the English voice acting:It's really annoying how all the
recent Sonic games use these untalented actors/actresses
in their dubs, because they make the original English
voices sound like award-winning performers.* [3] Other
comments on the show's aesthetics were mostly positive.
Sta of GamesRadar admitted, At least the song ts.
Can't imagine Sonic listening to Underground 's wailing
Meat Loaf light rock, but he'd denitely jam to Sonic X.
*
[58] Jones praised the rock music from Sonic Adventure
1 and 2, as well as thepretty piano musicandcatchy
Japanese intro and outro themes. He also found the backgroundsnice to look atbut did not like the use of CGI

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for Sonic's homing attack.* [3]
The human charactersand, to a lesser extent, the animal oneswere also criticized. Jones decried Chris as
a dull, boring, uninspired characterand also described
Tanaka and Ella asblandstereotypes of Japanese- and
African-Americans, respectively. Jones also criticized
the presence of Amy and Big, but took particular issue to
the show's portrayal of Sonic, which he summarized as:
"'I'm gonna run around downtown until something exciting happens and use a stinking Ring to defeat my enemies'".* [3] GamesRadar bemoaned both the piss-poor
Adventure charactersand the original human ones.* [58]
In contrast, writer Gaz Plant of NintendoLife opined that
one of the key successesof the series was its incorporation of numerous characters from the games, including
lesser-used ones like Big and the Chaotix. Fans were divided on the merit of the Thorndykes.* [59]
The show was well received for faithfully following the
format of the games. Famitsu oered a uniformly positive review before the rst episode broadcast in 2003,
commending the skillful transition of the games' speed
and style to animation, and expected the series to continue to grow more interesting.* [15] Plant stated that
where Sonic X truly succeeded was in its retelling of
iconic stories.* [59] Independent of the characters involved, GamesRadar appreciated the idea of following
Sonic's core concept.* [58] The original storylines were
also well received. Amidst his criticism of most of the
show, Jones praised the rst episode in general, especially its humor.* [3] Plant acclaimed the character development that built on the stories of the original games, especially Sonic's and Amy's relationship and the Chaotix's
newfound viability as comedy devices. Concurrently, he
found the show surprisingly touching, particularly in
its emotionalnal climax, and favorably compared
the space exploration of season three to Star Trek.* [59]
Famitsu 's rst preview called the story profound (
jk).* [15]
Common Sense Media gave it three stars out of ve and,
while not commenting further on its quality, stated that it
was appropriate for grade-school children but that some
violent scenes were inadvisable for younger viewers.* [60]
A second Famitsu review from later in 2003 called the
anime an outstanding success and encouraged readers to
tune in.* [61]

4.2

Popularity and cultural impact

ter to King Harald V of Norway to approve his name

being changed to Sonic X. They allowed Christer
to write it himself but did not send it until he badgered
them further, and the king responded that he could not approve the change because Christer was not eighteen years
old.* [65]* [66] Extending over a decade past the show's
initial release, the phrase gotta go fasthas been used
in the titles of video game periodical articles to represent the Sonic series* [67]* [68] and other fast-paced video
games.* [69]* [70]* [71]

5 See also
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic Boom
F-Zero: GP Legend
Space opera
Kirby: Right Back at Ya!

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