List of Officials

Here you can find a list of 'Sonic the Hedgehog' or SEGA officials. Third parties affiliated with the 'Sonic the Hedgehog' franchise are also listed here.
== Japan ==
=== SEGA Japan ===
SEGA Japan is the main branch for SEGA that has their headquarters stationed in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Their SEGA logo is light blue in color to represent things made in Japan or if it's for the Japanese audience. 
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=== SEGA Shop Japan ===
SEGA shop Japan is a website to sell goods that are made for the SEGA Japanese audience.
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=== S-Fire ===
S-Fire is a branch of SEGA Japan that specializes in making figures and statues. Their works are usually based off of popular anime series such as My Hero's Academia, Demon Slayer and Chainsaw Man. Their website and figures on their site are copyrighted by SEGA.
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=== SEGA Plaza ===
SEGA Plaza is known to make SEGA or other series related products that are usually available for lottery.
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=== Sonic Team ===
Sonic Team is the group in charge of the 'Sonic the Hedgehog' series at SEGA Japan. They are responsible for making several 'Sonic the Hedgehog' medias such as most video games, calendar pictures and many more. Sonic Team is also responsible for delivering news for the 'Sonic the Hedgehog' series through posts and videos on their social media accounts.
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=== Takashi Iizuka ===
Takashi Iizuka is the current head of Sonic Team. He is currently living in America. He is well known for having Shadow the Hedgehog as his favorite character and for his help in the creation of Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow the Hedgehog.
=== Kazuyuki Hoshino ===
Kazuyuki Hoshino is a member of Sonic Team who is known for being the "Sonic" creative director. He is often seen on Sonic Station Live livestreams and other Sonic Team livestreams like the Red Lantern video series. He is also an artist for some of the official 'Sonic the Hedgehog' art pieces. One of his art pieces is of pictures of the café versions of Sonic, Shadow, Knuckles, Eggman, Tails and Amy Rose made into wrappers for chocolates in celebration of Valentine's Day 2022. He is most well known for his help in the creation of Classic Metal Sonic, Classic Amy Rose and Shadow the Hedgehog.
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=== Eitaro Toyoda ===
Eitaro Toyoda is a member of Sonic Team who is a game planner and is known for supervising over "Sonic" related things. He is also known for his translations and works on the IDW comics as well as his supervision over "Sonic" related stories. One story you can see that was made by him and Yui Karasuno is the comic made for Sonic Colors Ultimate. He works on many projects for Sonic Team and is often seen in Sonic Station Live and other Sonic Team related livestreams. Some projects he is part of includes making videos, making articles on their website Sonic Channel and creating the stories added with the calendar pictures. He is mostly known for his translations on the Sonic IDW Comic series from English to Japanese and for his calendar stories. He is also one of the two Sonic Team members who looks over the contents of the Sonic IDW Comics. The other member who looks over the comics with him is Yui Karasuno. On his personal X account, he sometimes replies to fan's questions about the series and calendar stories he has written.
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=== Yuji Uekawa ===
Yuji Uekawa is an artist who is part of Sonic Team. He well known for his monthly wallpaper and calendar arts.
=== Yui Karasuno ===
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Yui Karasuno is an artist who is part of Sonic Team. She is mostly known for her monthly colored art pieces for 'Life in the World of Sonic'. She has also made art for other 'Sonic the Hedgehog' related projects such as Sonic IDW Comic covers. She is one of the Sonic Team members who looks over the contents of the Sonic IDW Comics. She has also been featured in drawing videos posted by Sonic Team on their official YouTube Channel. Two videos were made where she taught others how to draw Modern Sonic and Modern Tails.
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=== Tomoko Hayane ===
Tomoko Hayane is a V-Tuber who is an artist, a designer and a design supervisor for licensed products for Sonic Team. She was introduced in 2022 by SEGA Japan on a livestream where she taught others on how to draw Modern Tails. She was also featured in other drawing videos like Yui Karasuno. In two separate videos, Tomoko Hayane showed others how to draw Classic Sonic, Sage and Kocos. She is also known to be featured in other videos such as Red Lantern livestreams and in YouTube Shorts. One of her first projects after being introduced that she known for is her fully colored calendar pictures for 2023. There is also an article talking more about her on the Sonic Channel website where she states what her role is in Sonic Team among other information like her favorite character being Eggman.
=== Morio Kishimoto ===
Morio Kishimoto is known for being the game director in charge of the making of Sonic Forces and Sonic Frontiers. He is also known to respond to fans quite often on his personal X account. Many like to take what he says as fact for things that will happen in the future games, but there is no confirmation on this being true. He usually states that he will look into things or that he finds what the fans to say interesting and helpful. Whether they will be implemented in future games is still unknown. He has so far directed four 'Sonic the Hedgehog' game titles. Morio Kishimoto hopes to continue directing games after Sonic Frontiers, but whether he will or not is still unknown. 
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=== Kawamura ===
Kawamura is a development producer who is mostly known for helping with Sonic Frontiers. You can see her appear in Sonic Team livestreams before the release of Sonic Frontiers as a Koco. Kazuyuki Hoshino is often the one to move the Koco figure or plush to act out the Koco talking on Kawamura's behalf.
=== Jun Senoue ===
Jun Senoue is a well known sound director and composer who has worked on the 'Sonic the Hedgehog' series since Sonic Adventure 1. He is often known to play with the band Crush 40 who is famous for their many hit songs in the 'Sonic the Hedgehog' series. His favorite character is said to be Shadow the Hedgehog. He is also the teacher for Tomoyo Ohtani. You can sometimes see him in pictures playing a Shadow the Hedgehog themed guitar that was made for Sonic the Hedgehog's 25th anniversary.
=== Tomoyo Ohtani ===
Tomoyo Ohtani is a well known sound director and composer who has worked on the 'Sonic the Hedgehog' series. The first game he debuted as lead composer was Sonic Frontiers.
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=== Fujiki ===
Fujiki is one of the SNS mangers for the Sonic Team social medias. He is also the manager for the competitive game group, Sonic Speed Gamers that was created by Sonic Team. He is often seen in many Sonic Team related videos/livestreams, such as the Red Lantern video series and Sonic Speed Gamers related livestreams.
=== Ed ===
Ed is one of the SNS managers for the Sonic Team social medias. He is also a club member of the competitive game group called Sonic Speed Gamers that was created by Sonic Team. As a member, he is shown playing 'Sonic the Hedgehog' games in livestreams for the Sonic Speed Gamers on Sonic Team's official YouTube channel. He is also one of the members that work with Sonic Team that speaks both Japanese and English quite fluently. He can also be seen in the videos that give an overview of Sonic Station Live livestreams where they briefs over what happened in the stream in English along with Rena.
=== Rena ===
Rena is a new employee who was last shown in a trail to join the competitive game group called Sonic Speed Gamers that was created by Sonic Team. She was seen in a livestream for the Sonic Speed Gamers where she played Team Sonic Racing with Ed. She was also seen in videos that give an overview of Sonic Station Live livestreams where they brief over what happened in the stream in English along with Ed.
=== Shiro Maekawa ===
Shiro Maekawa is a former employee of SEGA that worked on Sonic Team. He is the writer for several Sonic games like Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes, Sonic and the Black Knight and more. His first story he worked on was Sonic Adventure. He has expressed that his favorite character is Shadow, especially since he is a key person who created the character. He often likes almost any pictures that has Shadow in it, even shipping pictures like Sonadow pieces. He has also bought artwork of Shadow. He has expressed that he would like to come back to SEGA to write stories again if they allow him.
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=== Jun-ichi Kanemaru ===
Jun-ichi Kanemaru is the Japanese voice actor for Sonic the Hedgehog. He has been voicing Sonic since 1998.
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=== Koji Yusa ===
Koji Yusa is the Japanese voice actor for Shadow the Hedgehog. He has been voicing Shadow since 2001 when he first released.
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=== Joypolis ===
Joypolis is an indoor amusement park in Tokyo. They are known to have several series as rides and other attractions. They have a 'Sonic the Hedgehog' section in their amusement park and have 'Sonic the Hedgehog' products being sold at their stores.
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=== Sonic Movie Japan ===
Sonic Movie Japan is the official X account for the 'Sonic the Hedgehog' movies.
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== America ==
=== SEGA America ===
SEGA America is an international branch for SEGA that has its headquarters stationed in Irvine, California. Although it is called SEGA America, the one who runs the Official SEGA X account is from Europe, who also has a headquarters in Europe. They occasionally make TikToks and posts about the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise from their Europe headquarters. Since it is a SEGA account, other SEGA games and series are also mentioned in the social medias. Their SEGA logo is dark blue in color to represent things made in America/Europe or if it's for the English audience.
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=== Marilia ===
Marilia is the Community Manager for SEGA of America. She lives in Europe but takes care of both the SEGA and Europe social medias. She says that Shadow the Hedgehog is her favorite character, but she has also shown to like Amy Rose in many of the medias she creates for SEGA of America.
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=== Sonic America ===
Sonic America refers to the American team who takes care of things concerning Sonic. On their official X account and Tumblr, they often post memes and other news for the 'Sonic the Hedgehog' series.
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=== SEGA America Shop ===
SEGA America Shop is an online store that sells SEGA related products to the American audience.
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=== Katie Chrzanowski ===
Katie is known as the manager of Sonic America's social media team. She is often seen on Sonic America livestreams and is known to help with posts on the official Sonic America social media accounts. She is also known to announce Sonic the Hedgehog related news and answer questions asked to her on her personal X account. Her favorite characters are said to be Chao, Tails and Amy Rose.
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=== Justin Thormann ===
Justin Thormann is known as an associate manager for Sonic America's social media team. He is often seen on Sonic America livestreams and is known to help with posts on the official Sonic America social media accounts. His favorite character is said to be Shadow the Hedgehog.
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=== Kenneth ===
Kenneth is known as a member of Sonic America's social media team. He is often seen on Sonic America livestreams and is known to help with posts on the official Sonic America social media accounts. His favorite character is said to be Omega.
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=== Mike Cisneros ===
Mike Cisneros is known for his work on helping make 'Sonic the Hedgehog' merchandise. He is often seen on Sonic America livestreams showing off new products that are available for purchase in America and/or Europe.
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=== Aaron Webber ===
Aaron Webber used to work together with Katie and the rest of the Sonic America crew until he transferred positions.
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=== Roger Craig Smith ===
Roger Craig Smith is the English voice actor for Sonic the Hedgehog. He has been voicing Sonic since 2010.
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=== Mike Pollock ===
Mike Pollock is the English voice actor for Dr. Eggman.
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=== Kirk Thornton ===
Kirk Thornton is the English voice actor for Shadow the Hedgehog.
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=== Colleen O'Shaughnessey ===
Colleen O'Shaughnessey is the English voice actor for Miles 'Tails' Prower. She also voices Tails in 'Sonic the Hedgehog' and 'Sonic the Hedgehog 2' the movie.
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=== Cindy Robinson ===
Cindy Robinson is the English voice actor for Amy Rose.
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=== Ben Schwartz ===
Ben Schwartz is the English voice actor for Movie Sonic the Hedgehog.
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=== Sonic Movie ===
Sonic Movie is the official account for the 'Sonic the Hedgehog' movies.
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=== Sonic Speed Simulator ===
Sonic Speed Simulator is a Roblox game that is in partnership with Sonic America. They often update who is being added through their X accounts. The studio that works on the game is Gamefam Studios. Gamefam Studios are also know to make other Roblox games other than Sonic Speed Simulator. They are a third party and are not affiliated with SEGA directly.
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=== Evan Stanley ===
Evan Stanley is a comic book artist and writer for the Sonic IDW Comic series. She is now the lead writer for the comics. She is a third party and is not affiliated with SEGA directly.
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=== Ian Flynn ===
Ian Flynn is a comic book writer for the Sonic IDW Comic series. He is known to have helped with the story of Sonic Frontiers. He once was the lead writer for the comics until Evan Stanley took over. He often answers questions that he asked on his YouTube channel The Bumblekast. He is a third party and is not affiliated with SEGA directly.
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== Europe ==
=== SEGA Europe ===
SEGA Europe has a headquarters stationed in the United Kingdom. They share a social media account with SEGA America. They occasionally film TikToks at their headquarters, some of them containing elements from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. Their SEGA logo is dark blue in color to represent things made in America/Europe or if it's for the English audience.
=== SEGA HARDlight ===
SEGA HARDlight is part of SEGA Europe who is an international branch of SEGA that has its headquarters station in London. SEGA HARDlight is mostly well known for their supervision over the 'Sonic the Hedgehog' mobile apps. The mobile apps they update the most are: Sonic Forces: Speed Battle, Sonic Dash and Sonic Dash+. They use their X account to update fans of new characters being added to Sonic Forces: Speed Battle and Sonic Dash/Dash+.
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=== Nollie ===
Nollie is an employee that works at SEGA Hardlight. She has often expressed that her favorite character is Amy Rose and that she is the one who likes all the Amy and Sonamy arts on the official SEGA Hardlight social medias. She can also be found on Discord taking care of the server for SEGA Hardlight. On the server, she often expresses her emotions with Amy icons.
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=== SEGA Shop Europe ===
SEGA Shop Europe is known to make SEGA related products for Europe and sell them on their online shop.
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== Other ==
=== Deven Mack ===
Deven Mack is the English voice actor for Prime Sonic the Hedgehog.
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=== Ian Hanlin===
Ian Hanlin is the English voice actor for Prime Shadow the Hedgehog.
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