Sonic Mania Adventures

Sonic Mania Adventures

## **More Information**

***Sonic Mania Adventures*** is a 2018 American animated web series based upon the original *Sonic the Hedgehog* franchise, canonically taking place after the events of both *Sonic Mania* and *Sonic Forces*; now promoting *Mania*'s extention; *Sonic Mania Plus*.

It was directed and written by Tyson Hesse, being produced by Neko Productions and Sega.

A holiday special (which also counts as the sixth episode), titled "From: A. Rose", has been released on December 20, 2018, despite the series' ending on July 17, 2018.

Classic Sonic went back to his dimension after the events of *Sonic Forces*. He discovers Robotnik is collecting the Chaos Emeralds and already has four of them. Sonic must gather all the Chaos Emeralds before Eggman does.

## Overview

### Season 1

After the events of *Sonic Forces*, Classic Sonic returns back to his dimension after one big adventure in Modern Sonic's. He finds Dr. Eggman with four Chaos Emeralds. Sonic has to collect all the Emeralds before Eggman would.

## Cast

* Sonic the Hedgehog\*
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Dr. Robotnik
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Mighty the Armadillo
* Ray the Flying Squirrel
* Amy Rose

\* = There is no voice actors as this series does not contain dialogue.

## Episodes

In addition to the serialized release, on the same day "Metal Mayhem" released a separate video titled "The Complete Mini-Series" was also uploaded. Although promoted as just the five individual episodes strung together in a single video, it actually featured animation touch-ups and additional effects on several sequences from the first four episodes, as well as some minor music differences to accommodate the edits joining some of the episodes together.

## Production

*Sonic Mania Adventures* began production back in 2017, with Tyson Hesse serving as the art director for the series. The series was first revealed at the "Gotta Go Fast" Sonic panel at SXSW in March 2018 with some concept art and a teaser trailer. There, it was revealed that the series would consist of five short animated episodes that would be released online on the official *Sonic the Hedgehog* YouTube channel for everyone to see for free. The series was to follow a monthly release, with exclusive *Sonic Mania Adventures* merchandise being made available in America, Australia and New Zealand at www.shop.sega.com for each episode as it goes live.

It had been confirmed that the series was to feature no dialogue; every plot element would be conveyed using visual clues.

On 19 December 2018 —five months after the previous episode— a sixth episode was announced to release on 20 December 2018 as a holiday special.

## Trivia

* "The Complete Mini-Series" has updated some of the series' animation errors.
* Despite ending on July 17, 2018 with "Metal Mayhem", the series aired it's sixed episode titled "From: A. Rose", also being a holiday special, as it aired on December 20th.
* This is the first *Sonic the Hedgehog* franchise-based web series.
	+ It's first product to be available on the internet is *Sonic: Night of the Werehog*.
	+ It's latest is *Sonic Colors: Rise of the Wisps*.
* *Sonic Mania Adventures* was announced back in 2017, thus beginning it's production in that same year.
* This is Tyson Hesse's first Sonic series, predating *Team Sonic Racing Overdrive* and *Sonic Colors: Rise of the Wisps*.
	+ Speaking of Tyson Hesse's connection to Sonic media and *Sonic Mania*, he also animated *Mania*'s opening and ending animation and well as it's (and *Sonic Mania Plus*') pre-order trailer.
* *Sonic Mania Adventures* is the first series to air fully without any dialogue.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Sonic Mania Adventures* on IMDB
2. ↑ *Sonic Mania Adventures* on Sonic News Network

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