Sonic The Hedgehog "anime"

**Sonic the Hedgehog** (Sonikku za Hejjihogu) or sometimes abbreviated as STH is a currently long running anime series. This adaptation is loosely based on the video game Franchise under the same name created by Yuji Naka and Naoto Oshima.

## Sonic The Hedgehog

### Label

Genre: Action,Adventure,Comedy, Sci-fi,Fantasy

### Label

Directed by: Naoto Oshima, Kazunori IkegamiStudio: MADHOUSE

Written by: Shiro Maekawa

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                Mayori Sekijima
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                Masashi Kubota
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Licensed by: Sega

Network: TV Tokyo

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               Central Park Media                Cartoon Network (Toonami Block)
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Original Run: November 1, 1997 - Ongoing

### Overview

#### **Story**

Sonic the Hedgehog follows the adventures of Sonic, who along with his friends and many allies, defend their planet Mobius against the Evil Tyrant Dr. Eggman Robotnik from world domination. While also battling many other villains that range from aliens, robots, and gods themselves.

#### **Production history**

The anime first premiered in Japan November 1, 1997 on Fuji Television and Central Park Media at around 6:30 pm eastern time. The English Dub for the series premiered January 27, 1998 which aired on Cartoon Network's Toonami block. AD vision was the first studio to merge with Madhouse to do the English dubbing of the first half of the series. It wasn't until April of 2001 that Sega announced that they were parting ways with AD vision and began using Viz Media as there current dubbing for the series beginning with the Sonic Adventure Saga in the fall of 2001.

#### **Reception & Criticism**

As of 2012 Sonic the Hedgehog was considered as the best longest-running video game anime series based on a video game, beating Pokemon for nearly 20 years. The show represented many themes of friendship, love overpowering hate, and achieving and never giving up on your goals. The series also featured heavy sci-fi overtones along with fighting similar to the anime series Dragon Ball Z which many would say was influenced or straight copied the anime.

Many items such as apparel, clothing, backpacks, plush toys, figurines and many more boosted the popularity of the series in both Japan and North America. The fast food chain Mcdonalds featured toys for the anime twice in the 2000s. Many video games based on the anime were created during that era as well boosting Sega's ratings for the video game franchise. While many folks loved the anime it did receive controversy throughout the years for being known as a rip-off of Dragon Ball Z. This is due to the heavy sci-fi influence as well as the Super Sonic transformation being similar to the Super Saiyan transformation.

### Sagas

1.New Beginning Saga

2.Escape from Eggman Island Saga

3. Little Planet Saga

4. Death Egg Saga

5. Angel Island Saga

6. Triple Trouble Saga

7. Naugus Saga

8. Chaotix Saga

9. Mega Gear Saga

10.Death Egg Mk Saga

11. Perfect Chaos Saga

12. Space Colony Ark Saga

13. Sonic Advance Saga

14. Sonic Advance 2 Saga

15. Sonic Heroes Saga

16. Sonic Battle Saga

17.Black Arms Saga

18.Sonic Advance Saga

19. Metallix Saga

20. Sonic Rush saga

21.Sonic Riders saga

22.Sonic Rush adventure saga

23. Nazo Unleashed Saga

24. Sonic riders zero gravity saga

25. Metarex Saga

26. Shattered World Saga Act 1

27. Shattered World Saga Act 2

28. Enerjak Reborn Saga

29. Iron Dominion Saga

28. King Scourge Saga

29. Sonic Generations Saga

30. Eggman Empire Saga Act 1

32. Eggman Empire Saga Act 2

33.Mephiles Saga

34. Shadow Fall Saga

35. Nega Sonic Saga

36. Deadly Six Saga

37. Neo Metal Saga

38. Metal Virus Saga

### Movies/OVA/Tv specials

1. Sonic, The Worlds Fastest
2. Sonic Shuffle
3. Hyper Madness: Super Sonic vs Hyper Knuckles
4. Sonic Tales: Tales from the Brotherhood
5. Sonic Tales: I, Robotnik
6. Sonic Tales: The story of Jules
7. Sonic Labirynth
8. Sonic 06 OVA
9. Marine's Big Adventure
10. Sonic and the Secret rings OVA
11. Sonic and the Black Knight OVA
12. Sonic Colors OVA
13. Sonic Adventure OVA "20th Anniversary special"
14. Sonic Adventure 2 OVA"20th Anniversary special"
15. Sonic The Wrath of Nazo
16. Sonic Forces
17. Sonic Venegance