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Sonic the Hedgehog (anime)

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The original Sonic the Hedgehog animated video, referred to as Sonic the Movie or 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.

Sonic the Hedgehog was released on May 31st, 1996 in Japan and was presented on two different VHS episodes ("Journey to Eggmanland" and "Sonic vs. Metal Sonic"). ADV Films dubbed it in English in 1999, and released it as Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie in Europe with a single box video. They later released it in North America in 2000.

World

The main setting of this Sonic cartoon it is Planet Freedom, and it has many different accessible "dimensions" (dimensions is probably a mis-translation for lands). The area 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 Tails yell for help several times. Sonic manages to rescue them. Shortly after, the Old Man tells Sonic that the President being summoned Sonic to his residence. Sonic and Tails race to the Presidential Palace, where they encounter Eggman holding the President and his daughter Sara hostage. Eggman tells Sonic that his city, dubbed Robotropolis in the English version, has been taken over by a metal version of himself called Metal Robotnik (Black Eggman in the Japanese version). Sonic reluctantly agrees to confront Metal Robotnik.

After Sonic and Tails leave Sara enters Robotnik's ship and starts fiddling with the controls. Robotnik chases her and the door shuts and the machine exits through the roof. Meanwhile, Sonic and Tails go into the Land of Darkness, encountering badniks, before reaching an abandoned city. Once there, a long confrontation between theirselves and Metal Robotnik take place. Fortunately, Knuckles assists Sonic after he gets trapped in a hole which is quickly filling with water. Shortly after, Sonic destroys Metal Robotnik.

Sonic, Tails and Knuckles go into the core of the city. After reaching the control panel for the electricity generator Sonic is trapped inside a glass container and his DNA is electronically scanned. Sonic & his friends finally manage to shut off the switch. Metal Robotnik appears, giving the appearence he was intact but he is seen crumbling and Eggman and Sara can be seen among the rubble. After regaining his composure Eggman introduces Sonic to a robotic counterpart, Hyper Metal Sonic. Eggman explains to Sonic that Hyper Metal Sonic was programmed with Sonics DNA and thus would know his every move. A battle ensues between Sonic and his robotik counterpart and goes skybound. Hyper Metal Sonic wins, and Tails and Knuckles return to the Land of the Sky. Tails finds out that Hyper Metal Sonic is out to destroy the world by destroying the Ice Caps and causing the continents to drift apart. Tails and Knuckles go to the Ice Cap and find Sonic & Hyper Metal Sonic fighting. Tails corrupts Metal's data with the navigational watch Eggman gave him before, and Sonic attacks Hyper Metal Sonic, causing serious damage. Hyper Metal Sonic hears the President and the Old Man, who are trapped in their airplane which just had a crash landing. Shortly after, Hyper Metal Sonic gets blown into magma filled crevace but clutches onto the side. Sonic tries to save him, but Metal says "There is only one Sonic.." and falls to the bottom. While Sonic is smarting from his injuries, Eggman says that he still has Sonic's DNA and that he can create more Sonic clones. One of Robotniks robotic projectiles wanders by as he is saying this and explodes, destroying the CD.

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".

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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