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Sonic the Hedgehog (anime)

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The original Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie, referred to as Sonic OVA by some, features Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, Knuckles the Echidna, Dr. Eggman, Hyper Metal Sonic, and a few original characters, such as the human Sara. The Sonic Movie was made in 1996, during it's native release in Japan it was presented in two different episodes ("Journey to Eggmanland" and "Sonic vs. Metal Sonic"). ADV Films dubbed it in English in 1999, and released it in Europe with a single box video. They later released it in North America in 2000 as Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie.

World

The main setting of this Sonic cartoon it is Planet Freedom, and it has many different accessible dimensions, like the Land of Darkness, and in typical anime style, this place seems a crossbreed of a fairy tale and Earth. The realm the series starts out on is Land of the Sky.

Story

Sonic is relaxing like he usually does. When Tails comes out to test a new bodyboard, he asks Sonic to give it a try. Sonic declines, since he has a great fear of water. Tails' bodyboard however, encounters a flying ship driven by Old Man, an old owl anthropomorph, and he is almost about to go into a cliff, being picked up by the ship. Sonic runs after hearing "Help!" from Tails several times. Sonic rescues them, but Old Man gives news of the President being held captive by Dr. Eggman. Sonic and Tails race to the Presidential Palace, where they encounter Eggman holding the President and his daughter, Sara. Eggman tells Sonic a lie that his city (Robotropolis in the English version to copy off of SatAM), in the Land of Darkness, is being held by a metal version of himself called Metal Robotnik (Black Eggman in the Japanese version). After Sonic trusts Eggman, Sara goes into Robotnik's ship with him, playing around with the controls. Sonic and Tails go into the Land of Darkness, encountering badniks, but they soon get to the abandoned city. There, they get into a long battle with Metal Robotnik, eventually making Knuckles save them and destroying Metal Robotnik.

Sonic, Tails and Knuckles go into the core of the city, where Sonic is held in a glass container which copied his DNA. The protagonists think that the bomb that Robotnik threatened that would blow up the Land of the Sky was a dud. The Metal Robotnik appears, eventually crumbling, then revealing Eggman and Sara in it. Robotnik shows Sonic a metal version of himself, Hyper Metal Sonic, and the two get into a fight. Hyper Metal Sonic wins, and Tails and Knuckles go back to the Land of the Sky, where Tails finds out that Hyper Metal Sonic is out to destroy the world by hitting the Ice Caps and blowing it up. The blue hedgehog wakes up, and thinks about Hyper Metal Sonic knowing everything Sonic does, or did. Sonic gets to the workshop, and hears all about the Ice Cap thing from the President. Sonic, Tails and Knuckles go to the Ice Cap, where Sara is being held captive for marriage she is being forced into. Sonic encounters Hyper Metal Sonic, and the two have a long fight. Tails corrupts Metal's data with the navigation watch Eggman gave him before, and Sonic is able to do serious damage. At the same time, however, the President's ship is destroyed. Hyper Metal Sonic saves the President and Sonic realizes that Metal does have emotions, as he was programmed with Sonic's DNA. Metal gets blown into a volcano, where Sonic tries to save him, but Metal says "There is only one Sonic.." and is destroyed. While is Sonic is smarting from his injuries, Eggman says that he still has Sonic's DNA and that he can create more Sonic clones. A robot blows up the CD that the DNA is inside, thwarting Eggman's plans.

Trivia & Censorship

  • In the original translations Knuckles presented as a mole and not as an echidna; this mistake even re-occurs in the character-bios featured in the DVD release.
  • Sonic Anime was also censored somewhat as the anime was originally aimed at teenagers. Most of the censorship issues are mainly concerning not translating certain Japanese curse words, but in the scene where Sonic is supposed to show his middle-finger at Black Eggman, ADV changed the scene so that it seemed that Sonic was holding up his index-finger. However, in the DVD version Sonic still gives him "the finger." Other censored scenes include:
    • In one of the early scenes, Sara is holding one of the robots in a perverted way.
    • Sara calls Metal Sonic a "pervert" when she and Sonic crash into Eggman's ship and he crashes through the bottom and accidentally looks up her dress. Sonic, who basically sees, feels and thinks everything Metal Sonic does, has an adverse effect on this event. However, it could have possibly been the effect of him landing on his groin on Eggman's rocket.
    • In one scene, Miles "Tails" Prower accidentally grabs Sara's breasts. This causes Knuckles the Echidna to state, "I never thought you would stoop that low".
    • In a daydream when Eggman proposes to marry Sara, she is shown breastfeeding one of their many children. (Referred to as "Egglets")

Official Cast List

Japanese version

English version

Box Art

  • "Journey to Eggmanland" JP cover (VHS)

  • "Sonic vs Metal Sonic" JP cover (VHS)

  • EU cover (VHS)

  • EU cover (DVD)

  • US cover (DVD)

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