Sonic the Hedgehog has a long and rich history in animation, and I believe that this blue hedgehog is a childhood memory of many post-80s generations, when it was called Sonic Boy in the Little Dragon Club, I hadn't even actually seen the hedgehog.
Since the early 90s, this long-haired blue mammal has taken root in the hearts of fans. In addition to the original video game, Sonic the Hedgehog jumped into many other dimensions and now includes three published comic book series, a live-action movie and six animated series, each of which has garnered a lot of attention over the years.
And this blue hedgehog has been in today's headlines a few days ago, so today let's take stock of what are Sonic's 6 animation works.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > SatAM</h1>
The first is the earliest cartoon in Sonic IP, and 1993's Sonic the Hedgehog, also known as "SatAM" by fans, is the origin of many Chinese players to understand the Sonic series.
As an origin work, the setting at that time was relatively incomplete, and it was not known to gamers as Green Hill Town and Aquatic Ruins. The series takes place on a planet called Mobius, a happy, peaceful constitutional monarchy, the Kingdom of Acorn, inhabited by many animal-like inhabitants. And the main villain, Julian, who calls himself Dr. Robotnik, the Mechanical King, enslaves the people here and mechanizes them so that they cannot resist. And our protagonist, Sonic, seeks to save the country with the help of the underground guerrilla group Freedom Fighters.
SatAM's story as a whole is a story of war and rebellion, mainly taking place in the Dark Lands of the West. Although the war may seem less brutal, this kernel, which is inevitably accompanied by losses in the war, has been with Sonic from that period onwards, and has been around for decades to come.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (AoStH).</h1>
Although it is the same setting, the adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog of the same period are a more humorous work. Unlike SatAM, which often airs on Saturdays, AoStH episodes air on weekday mornings.
In AoStH, Sonic is on the planet Möbius with his friend Miles Prower, known as Tails, and is also rebelling against the arch-villain Julian, but the story is more interspersed with something that educates young children.
The series draws more inspiration from the game than SatAM, from the theme song to the use of mechanical enemies in the game, and even the setting for collecting Chaos Emerald, all of which are reflected in this animation.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > Sonic Underground, the three siblings of the Sonic</h1>
Launched in 1999, Sonic Underground was introduced, a series that uses a lot of SatAM settings, but also brings with it some unexpected elements: musicals.
The series takes place primarily in a dark, dystopian world where Sonic forms a new team with siblings Sonia and Manic. In this series, like Sonic in the previous series, the voices are Allel White. And continues the previous story setting, in order to liberate the planet Möbius from the evil Mechanical King. However, in this series, each episode will have a children's musical (brain supplement Disney's anime movie, sing a paragraph without a word, and the enemy will follow).
At the same time, this series adds side quests. The three little hedgehogs are also searching for their mother, Queen Alena. The setting also marked Sonic's first royal title. Sadly, Sonic Underground was cut off after a season, leaving the unsolved case behind.
Although the comic book company later planned the end of the series, it was also shelved, which also led many people to wonder when the lyrics in the comic's theme song "They swear that their mother will be found" will be realized.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > Sonic the Hedgehog: Movie (1999</h1>).
Not to be confused with the 2020 live-action film Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie, a series released in Japan in 1996 that split into two episodes.
Its artistic style and plot are similar to the settings in the game "Sonic CD". It's mainly Sonic teaming up with Tails and Knuckles, who often accompany him on adventures. In this series, they seek to protect the free planet from Dr. Robotnik's latest invention, Hyper Metal Sonic ( A Metal Version of Sonic ) .
The whole movie is only an hour long, so the movie is very fast-paced, which also makes him more like a promotional film for a game. Of course, it may be a game promo, and it can be seen that its main function is actually to introduce the two auxiliary characters of Sonic in the 90s, while supplementing the setting of the game world and arousing the audience's curiosity about the game. The movie is full of "if you want to know more, go play the game". For example, there is a semi-sunken city in the Dark Lands of the Mechanical King, which closely resembles Manhattan, trying to get some people to look for the context of whether this is an apocalyptic setting.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > Sonic X</h1>
Sonic's blue phantom disappeared on screen for some time, and it wasn't until Sonic X in 2003 that he brought his modern adventures to television screens around the world. The collection draws inspiration from Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 and is reborn in Panne. The series transports Sonic and his friends to our "real" world. They are also protecting our world from dr. Evil's Mechanical King, and in this series they begin to enjoy new adventures with human protagonist Chris Thorndyke.
The series resulted in the first appearance of many Sonic characters in the animated series, including would-be girlfriend Amy Rose, the avant-garde anti-hero hedgehog "Shadow" and the mysterious bat "Rouge". The series is also the Sonic emoji "Gotta go fast!" The origins of.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > sonic Boom</h1>
Nearly a decade later, in 2014, Sonic returned to animation again, and this time as his first 3D series, the image was a continuation of the video games of the time. Although Sonic Boom had some skirmishes with the game, the cartoon ended up being unexpectedly sought after due to its increasing humor.
A large number of hardcore fans quickly noticed the large number of memes in the series, as well as some mockery of some bugs in the game's setting. Because the series was limited to around 10 minutes and relied on comedic effects rather than action, it unexpectedly became a hit series after its 2017 suspension.
Sonic still has a tenacious vitality, even if its countless directions and ideas are finally ended, but whether it is video games, comics or animation, looking back at many series in the past few decades, after welcoming the arrival of new fans, no one will know what will happen in the future. In any case, it was only a matter of time before the hedgehog rolled back and forth at the speed of sound and might eventually roll back to the cartoon.