Sonic the Hedgehog's typical irreverence leads to the coveted chaos emeralds being caught in the crossfire and rendered unstable just before activation. The resulting chaos control engulfs everything for miles around Dr. Eggman's base, and, with scrambled input, nobody can predict the outcome.
Isolated from his friends and enemies alike, Sonic awakes in a strange world: an unknown city surrounded by mysterious people. He realizes he has been warped across the universe to an entirely different planet—Earth. As he rushes to escape the equally confused authorities, Sonic finds himself falling head-first into the pool of the illustrious Thorndyke family.
Thankfully, Christopher, Thonrdykes' son, saves Sonic and offers protection from a society that mistakenly believes him to be hostile. Sheltered by the family, Sonic resolves to regroup with his friends, save this new world from the threat he brought to them, and find a way home.
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KnucklesOfficial
It's the best because the characters and story are the greatest ever written. If you hate this show you are probably lying. The plot is simple yet is the most enjoyable thing I've ever experienced. The conflicts feel very real and are not forced. This show is the pinnacle of entertainment and can never be topped. This show is easily the reason I am still alive to this day and continues to give me joy with each rewatch. Some people may be turned off by the fact that it's based on a video game, but trust me, this show will not disappoint you.
NeonKazma
I don't really wanna review Sonic X. What about you, Tails? Do you want to? (Tails staring at me bored and pissed) Well...... Sorry Tails, I have to do this anyway. We all know Sonic. He's the badass mascot of SEGA that spawned in the Genesis in the 90's and became a pop culture phenomenon. When news began of a Sonic anime in the works, fans were thrilled with excitement and maybe Sonic can translate well into anime. But then came 4Kids! and...... The results were not pretty. Hated by both Sonic and anime fans, Sonic X was a huge failure among fans of Sonic,due to ridiculous plot, ripping off other animes and terrible new characters.
Sonic X begins with, who else, Sonic and his friends going to Dr. Eggman's base to rescue Cream and her Chao, when a nuclear reaction on the Chaos Emerald exploded and sending Sonic and his pals to Earth. That makes sense right guys?..... Moving on. After the weird explosion, Sonic gets chased by cops and ends up falling into the pool of a kid's house named Chris Thorndyke, a 10-year-old boy who lives with his grandfather Chuck and her maid Ella. So in the first season, it begins with a bang and then it goes a little bit strange for me. First, why the hell did Sonic and his friends end on Earth? DIdn't the place that they live is basically Earth? If not, then what's the name of their world then?! (although they did explain this in the second season of Sonic X, but the way they explain it is messed up). Second, how can a Chaos Emerald send you trough time? Cause that was never even in the games and things get even crazier in the second season of Sonic X, when they introduced another new character Cosmo and boy, they crammed up a lot of story into Season 2, cause the amount of backstory that they give to the plot in Sonic X just screams epic bullshit all the way in my opinion. Also, i found out that Sonic X in Japan was more violent and bloody than the US version, they even show Sonic bleeding while in a fight with Shadow in the Japanese version and hearing both Sonic and Tails swear a lot in the Japanese version, as well as Amy saying "Fuck". It was so controversial that 4Kids! edited the living crap out of Sonic X, so that it may receive a TV-Y7 rating in the US.
There are some things that I really like about Sonic X. First the animation. While it's not really perfect and there are a few incredibly bland backgrounds at times, the art and character models do look really good and fluid. Character models really bring the Sonic feel to life and they really work on each of the characters personalities from the game into the anime. the sense of speed really goes perfectly with the art and it really looks damn good on screen. Also, i like how the creators are, at least, giving some of this characters some depth to it, where many other Sonic games failed. There's one part where Sonic comes to see Amy, but Amy gets angry at him cause he always left her without telling her and then Sonic actually gives a Rose, apologizes to her and telling Amy that he would actually stay with her by the end of the world in the Jap version! Holy shit, Sonic, that's pretty damn deep. Also in the Jap version, the character development in Shadow was really great and I really can't believe i care for the guy, but really I just did. To be fair as well, while this anime does sometimes rips off some cliches from animes, it does deliver some very funny moments that make Sonic X worth the time to enjoy.
Now the main reason I think Sonic X fails is because of the shitty English dub and dialogue script that 4Kids! wrote for the US version of Sonic X (in which I do agree on). Voice-acting can be a hit or miss and it does fit the voices for each character, but sometimes the English voices can be extremely corny and cheesy and hell and the terrible script for the 4Kids! version ruins the show. It often feels rushed and really ruining some of the character development by making it too damn simple, i mean, really, couldn't they write something better than the script that these voice-actors were given to do?. Also, characters like Chris, Cosmo and etc. are really bland and useless. Chris looks like Sora from Kingdom Hearts and basically, he's just there to be a buddy with Sonic, nothing more and Cosmo is just for Tails to have a love interest, just like Sonic and Amy.
If you wanna see Sonic X, see the Japanese version instead. It has better English subtitles dialouge and some nice character development to it. I don't recommend the English dub, cause 4Kids! really ruined it by cutting too much plot from the Japanese version and just rushing the series for a quick-buck. If Sonic X was dubbed by Funimation instead of 4Kids!, it would have been so much better for Sonic X, cause Funimation only does little editing on animes all the damn time. It's not the greatest thing ever, but it's definitely not the worst thing ever made, it's actually pretty enjoyable and it worth the interest if you like, but please, see the Japanese version, not the 4Kids! one.... Thank you.
MeltyBlood_Len
There's something to be said when a Sonic fan hates a Sonic show so much that they have to write a review on a public website so that other people can see it and (most likely) disagree. But let me say this clearly: I am a huge Sonic the Hedgehog fan and I hate this show. Why do I hate this show so much? Well, let's compare it to the best Sonic TV Show ever, Sonic SatAM. Story: Sonic X: well... maybe like, 5 out of 10. Sonic SatAM: 9/10 Any of you who remember Sonic SatAM know that the storyline was pretty intense while still at the sametime being humorous. It could balance seriousness and comedy and that was something that made the show so good. I mean, the show was about pollution for the most part, but Sonic and the others DID talk about other things AND created comedy out of the situation. You might not have realized you were learning about the environment, and you probably weren't really. But I'm sure that you saw Robotnik's home and thought 'Ew gross, jeez, I hope this doesn't happen where I'm from' or something like that.
Sonic X, I have to say starts off with a decent plot but only if you know the characters already. If you just come in, they show you all the characters, but you don't really know them. I think that the original two arcs for this series is chronicled in the two games Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 (SADX and SA2B for Gamecube players). Well, the games are better than the series itself, but for the most part, the stories are the same. But the characters do play a part in the plot, so I can't say that I can put the plot up high, like I would if we were just talking about the game.
Art:
Sonic SatAM: For me 8/10
Sonic X: For me, 6/10
This really depends on which Sonic you like better, honestly. They're drawn in two different styles and I prefer the older Sonic to the newer one. The art is pretty clean in Sonic X. It's also pretty good in Sonic SatAM. I think the backdrops in both are really good, and the character design again, really depends on which Sonic you like. Same with all the other characters. The only character that would make any real difference is probably Robotnik, as known as Eggman (Why?). I think his design was the most radical change ever (since he went from pointy headed with small, red eyes to... well, Eggman). Honestly, I like the newer Robotnik (Eggman) better. The Older one just was creepy. Although hilarious.
Sound:
Sonic SatAM: 10/10
Sonic X: skklfjklsadjfkjdakkkkkk
Opening themes:
Sonic SatAM has THE BEST OPENING EVER. Like seriously, how could you not get pumped for the show when you heard it? If you weren't thrilled by the theme itself, you could get excited watching the opening animation itself. So there you go.
While Sonic X's animation is pretty intense for reasons I can't explain other than running everywhere all the time, I can also say that the theme song is pretty meh. It reminds me of the Yu-Gi-Oh one or the Digimon one, only not executed well. The premise behind these themes is just to repeat the name of the show over and over again in the hopes that you'll remember the show with only a few other words that aren't like "Digimon' or whatever. Sonic X tries to do that, but it's not really well executed. I moreso got annoyed. There's only so many times I can here "gotta go faster, faster, faster, faster, faster" before I want to skip to the commercials for relief. But sometimes I'm really stoked when I hear it, like, "AW MAN I LOVE THIS" and sometimes I'm just like "Eh." And I really can't say that it's because the song is bad. I can't say that it's because it's good. So I don't know how to rate this. I just know that I'm a fan of the opening theme for the most part.
Voice Acting:
Both series have their pitfalls, but I will give them both a pretty high score for voice acting, even if I don't think some characters matched their voices. As always, Knuckles is a favorite character and most people AGREE with his voice actor. Big sucks, but his voice did match his absolute suckiness. Amy's voice actor was good too. Rouge also. Only one voice would grate at my nerves for hours on end, CHRIS. And since he was in PRETTY MUCH EVERY EPISODE, everyone sounded okay in comparison, as long as he shut up.
Character:
Sonic SatAM: 7/10
Sonic X: 2/10
This is where Sonic SatAm can dull a little bit. Sonic SatAM consists of a wide range of characters, in what I call Sonic Syndrome. SEGA shows that they can't leave Sonic well enough alone by constantly adding new characters to the games without any real reason and then dropping them forever afterwards. Granted, all the characters in Sonic SatAM are in the comic series... but it's still sort of like "Do any of these guys do anything but wait around for Sonic?" And everyone always hates on Tails, but he's one of the only characters who is CONSISTENT in the series. Props, Tails. Props.
Sonic X has the biggest case of Pretentious Sonic Syndrome-- adding characters to the series and then acting like those characters are so totally canon. Prime Example: CHRIS AND HIS ENTIRE FAMILY. If you played the games, when you watch the show, you're like, "What the fuck is this? Who thought this was a good idea? Why? Why?" Yes, we get that Sonic enters 'our world', but he never befriends a human to the point of living with him. I guess you could say that a hole in the plot of the games is that everything seems to take place in just about one or two days... but that's the entire point. Sonic is fast. When he saves the world, he does it quickly. He doesn't need Chris or Chuck or any of that stuff. And Chris isn't even well written, in my opinion. I don't know, I would just play the game at that point.
Overall:
Sonic SatAM: 10/10
Sonic x: 1/10
No, I'm not going to be nice. I hate Sonic X. HATE. I went in thinking it would be good and, like any good Sonic fan, I defended the hell out of this show. But I blame 4Kids for the lack of creative process put into the show, and I honestly hope no one watches this because holy crap, it is terrible. It's not even that the premise is bad, it's that it was executed terribly despite 4Kids having the thing set up in front of them. Seriously. The series was RIGHT THERE, already written out in all of it's fantastic gaming glory but no one thought to themselves, "Hey, the people who watch this because they like Sonic are gonna get really pissed off." On the other hand, if you like Sonic and old cartoons, you'll probably like Sonic SatAM (and probably think Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is hilarious/deplorable and that Sonic Underground shouldn't even exist). In other words, play the game or watch something else Sonic related. Like the straight-to-VHS movie, Sonic the Hedgehog. DEFINITELY WATCH THAT. Not this. This should be placed in the bowels of hell and forgotten about.
Animewolfguy
When I was a kid, I love sonic x to death and praise the dub back when I was watching it every Saturday morning of the 4kids block . But as I got older and starting to use the internet, I come a across many people ranting about 4kids who are the one who dub sonic x. As I start to know more of what they do to anime they got, I realize how much of my childhood I wasted. Now that I got that out of the way, lets me say that sonic x is a decent anime but didn't reach its potential whenit was announce. So here is my review of the show.
Story:6/10
The plot starts as sonic and his friends attacks Dr.eggman's base to rescue Cream and cheese. Sonic face him head on but an accident occurs that suddenly sends sonic and his friends to a different place in time I guess since the anime did a bad job of explaining that part. Later he meets up with Chris who lets him stay. The others are found and they start to look for the emeralds before Eggman can. Now my first issue is this. It gets very confusing as what I said before, did not explain much of how they got sent back in time. This has been later explain in season 2 but I'm still confuse!? Another problem is that it very cliche and I notice this a lot threw out the entire anime. This show had 3 seasons and to me the good ones are season 2 and 3 as season 2 follow mostly from the games with few changes and it works and season 3 having a decent plot arc. But in the U.S version you won't get the full story as their a lot of edits done in order to fit to children standards. I watch every episode dub and sub and I notice a lot of scenes cut out and stuff they edit out in order to get a Y7 rating in america. Ya they pretty much rape it to death as far as everybody says. So for plot I give it a 6 for the japanese.
Art:7/10
The art is really decent for the most part. While not at the wow factor, it gets the job done. The bland background are really detailed and the character look well enough like their video game counter parts. The action scenes are really the best moment as the sense of speed looks so well. So art it did its job.
Music:8/10
Now music is pretty decent. The opening is good but I like the ending songs the most. My favorite has to be ending 3 because I just freaking love those beats. And the background music did good to fits its scene but we don't get that in the in the U.S oh no we get very bland music 4kids made which is epic crap! The only piece of music I like is the opening and thats it! So music I give it a 8 in japanese while I give the 4kids a 1 and thats because of the opening.
English dubs vs english subs:
4kids this has to be one of your worst dubs ever! Well not as bad as one piece but still its bad! Now the voices are actually pretty natural for the U.S but the main problem is the script! 4kids hired script writers who don't know what sonic is. This is fail fail fail as its so simple it just makes me sick! Now the japanese is a lot better with better voice acting and dialoge so watch it but please avoid the english dub at all cost!
Winner: English subs
Characters:6/10
The character are just like their video game counterparts. In the japanese, I praise it for trying to add more depth to the characters. I actually care more about them. You wont get that in the dub as they try to simplify it so kids can understand it. As for the new characters, they are hit or miss. Some I do like while others are pretty much useless like Chris who is just there to be friends with sonic and the anime mostly focus on him which really waste time. There is also Cosmo and she just there to be a love interest to tail with some few exceptions. So character I give a six.
Enjoyment:6/10
Well the japanese version is where I get the most enjoyment out of. The dub pretty much knock it all down with its edits and bad writing! While not great, it is what its worth a watch so I watch it if you have some time to waste but only subtitles. Parents don't let your kids watch this in dub because if you do, once they become anime fans, They'll realize they have wasted part of their childhood like I did.
Overall:6/10 Fair at best
pheonix2014
WATCH SONIC X or PLAY SONIC ADVENTURE 1&2 AND SONIC BATTLE BEFORE READING 4KIDS screwed the U.S dub up horribly,i reccomend the uncut verson if you want the full diolouge and story.season 1 was a litle rough around the edges,but it was just starting,i likednhow the characters sticked to their personalitys in the games.but ii have one problem with this anime...its name...chris thorndike!the devil chiled,i really did not like this character.he was verry verry annoying.i liked season 2 the best,it had game based arks,like sonic advnture,and sonic adventure2,also a sonic battle ark.and thare were no filler episodes between SA1&SA2 arks,and at the end of theSA2 ark,when sonic and shadow fought finnal hazzard,and live and learn played...i loved it!!!season 3 was ok,chris was useful for once(holy crap)and was less annoying,and tails finnaly got some love!
ShadowSableye
Alternates between ironic peak fiction and actual peak fiction. But please find a torrent for the battle against BioLizard because if you watch the offical dub you won't hear live and learn. The filler can honestly be super fun some times and Chris is overhated. The final season is this weird Sonic X meets Dragon Ball GT but it somehow works. Also the art design is peak Sonic, fight me. Be warned though if you are wanting to find artwork of Shadow from this show, do not google "Sonic X Shadow", you will not get what you were looking for. Finally MAL keeps saying I need to write a longerreview so this is just some word vomnit at the end so that I am able to post it.
conformityrules
Sonic X was a favorite of mine back in the day. When the show aired on Saturday mornings, courtesy of the CW4kids, the Sonic fan in me tuned in every Saturday to watch the adventures of Chris Thorndyke and his stranded alien, animal, anthropomorphic friends. What Sega hoped to do what this series was popularize the brand by conveying Sonic's video game adventures in a television format. Does it work? Sort of . . . It gets some things right but some things wrong. Story (7/10): Season 1 is a mostly episodic set-up that details the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (I mean, Sonic and Chris).The first episode details how Chaos Control (teleportation, a power granted by the Chaos Emeralds) mis-used by Eggman whisks Sonic and his friends away from their planet, Mobius, to the real world. There, Sonic and his friends take shelter at the home of a lonely, 12-year-old rich kid name Chris's mansion. In fear of what would happen if their identities were revealed, Chris tries to help Sonic and co. stay below the public eye (though these attempts ultimately prove futile). As you can tell by this premise, there are little to no overarching plot details, so I'll have to judge the episodic story lines by what merits do have. They're a blend of action and slice-of-life sitcom antics that worked okay for me at the time but thinking back on it now, come off as rather bland. The central reason behind this is how oddly slow-paced this show is.
Most modern cartoon series know that kids tend to prefer a faster pace. It lends itself to more intense action, snappier comedy, and compelling events. These things help keep aforementioned target audience interested. Unfortunately, Sonic X doesn't really do this. Even as a kid, I recall yawning during most of these season 1 episodes because the writers spent way too much time on conversational scenes that have no weight. Because of the archetypal nature of these characters, conversations in the boring mansion backdrop aren't going to entertain, especially when they're sparse on humor. Oddly enough, the human characters are used for humor more often than Sonic's group, who seem to take their conflicts a bit too seriously. This results in an uneven tone that only kept me hooked because I cared about the Sonic characters.
Season two picks things up a bit, adapting plots from Sonic Adventures 1 and 2, only using the human characters established in the series. Now, this was a bit more compelling. From Sonic and Shadow's duels, to the climatic battles between titanic foes, season 2 was action-packed and filled with thrills that entertained me at the time. There's a surprising bit of pathos behind the stories, and even the slower-paced conversational scenes worked better because it felt there was actually something to talk about. Sure, 12-year-old wish fulfillment was at play here, but it was still a LOT more enjoyable than season 1.
Season three is . . . weird. This time around, Eggman's not even an antagonist, but an occasional ally. The foe this time around is a space-fearing race known as the Meterax who are in pursuit of an OC for reasons established during the plot. It's the series attempt at an overarching story, and it does a decent job. The Meterax are pretty bland as far as overlords go, but to its credit, the arc is fairly well-executed Ensemble darkhorses like Shadow and Rogue only get bit parts (unfortunately), but otherwise, it's a decently executed (if not terribly distinct) storyline.
Art (5/10): Ugh. TMS does not bring their best here at all. Very little here is well-done. The colors are bland, the backgrounds are forgettable, and the animation is limited during conversations and cuts corners during fight scenes. This is egregious because a series like Sonic should be more fast-paced (pun totally intended), not a weird mix of camera pans, looped animation, and dragged frames. The human character designs are bland, with little to distinguish them from the anime grain.
To its credit, though, the Sonic characters are rendered accurately. Sure, Snic has less quills than he normally does, but TMS brings their designs to traditional animation form about as accurately as one could do so. If only they moved a little more . . .
Sound (8/10): Whether America's "Gotta Go Fast" or Japan's "Sonic Drive", I remember Sonic X for its iconic themes. They were catchy, upbeat, and opening themes that really capture the tone of the video game series. The 4kids score, however, was pretty weak and didn't have any memorable tones. The anime's, however, was well-done and matched the on-screen action well.
The future ending themes for Sonic X in Japan were strong as well. T.O.P was my personal favorite. Combined with cool on-screen visuals, it conveyed the smooth, cool side of Sonic exceptionally well.
While the English dub of this series is well-cast, it's not terribly well-acted. Besides its script inconsistencies, the voice acting is stiff and awkward at times (it would take time for this cast to come into their own). Conversely, the Japanese voice isn't terribly well-cast, but its much better acted. I wouldn't blame most people if they watched the sub on Hulu because of this.
Character (6/10): I mentioned earlier that Sonic and his friends are archetypal, but that doesn't mean they have to be boring. These video game characters have enough personality that they should be able to drive a series like this. Unfortunately, they don't get enough screen time and what little they do get is marred by underwhelming comedy, and poorly-executed build up to episodic conflicts. Sonic, in particular, feels like an enigmatic drifter who we only cut to when we need him. He's got his cocky, classical anti-hero style traits like he does in the video games, but they don't shine through here because the main character spot is taken by Chris Throndyke, an utterly forgettable progtagonist. Ash Ketchum and the lead from the Beyblade series look compelling compared to this guy's generic niceness, really looks up to Sonic as role model stuff. His one distinctive trait (his lonely rich kid side) doesn't get enough screen time or development to be interesting. To his credit, though, his emotion in some particularly tear-jerking scenes does ring true.
The other human characters are pretty boring. The butler has his moments but isn't strong enough to be memorable, the scientist is bland in much the same Chris is, and the maid is a boring stereotype. Chris's uncle, Sam, is a weak Human Torch expy, and the President is about as memorable as an unnamed president would be.
One of the only strong characters in the human cast is Topaz, an original character who is a member of GUN. Her vitriolic relationship with Rogue is well-executed, and she's played refreshing straight as a normal person swept into these events without her consent. A couple one-shot humans, like a traumatized GUN soldier in seasons 2, and Helen in season 3, are also portrayed effectively and show more distinctiveness than their supporting/main character peers.
As for Sonic's friends, they have their canon traits. Amy loves Sonic, yet is kinda violent to everyone else, Cream is the enthusiastic younger sister type character, Knuckles is, well, a knucklehead who is kinda slow at times, and Tails is the upbeat, ready to help sidekick. These personalities don't get a lot of limelight in season 1, but get some tests in seasons 2 and 3. These moments are refreshing, but they certainly don't take them out of one-note character. Dr. Eggman is admittedly entertaining, and he gets really cool a couple times late in the series but is mostly a bright spot because the rest of the cast is that bland. It's bit post-morteum to say this now, but his robot buddies, Decoe and Boccoe, are only good for a couple gags.
Enjoyment (6/10): I LOVED this series when I was younger. For all its flaws, it was my favorite characters on the TV screen, battling evil, going through drama, and having fun together. Does it really stack up for me now?
Honestly, there are so many other series that fill the quotient for this series better. It has a really yawn-inducing first season, and the next two seasons, while decently-executed, don't stand out much from its contemporaries. The main reason I'll remember this series is because of how nostalgic it was, and that despite its slow pace, I still tuned in every week I could.
So, props for that.
Overall (6/10): Don't watch this series if you're not a fan of the franchise, casual or otherwise. But, if you are, this series might be diverting. If you can make it past season 1, there are legitimately enjoyable plots, scenes, and character dramas. It's just not gonna appeal much to those who don't care about the franchise already.
MissHeed
Sonic X is based on the two games for dreamcast and Gamecube at least for the first part of the anime. Then end up going to space towards the end. The Story really boring. If You aren't a hard core sonic fan you won't enjoy this anime. However this anime is not complex at all so even your average joe can enjoy it. Art: The art work is decent you can still have some amusement by looking at the characters. The art work on tails and amy are great they have really improved. Sound: I can say the anime does have good english dub the jpdub everyone sounds like women the opening to the jp version of the anime alot better.
characters: the personalitys are pretty dull compare to the sonic 1993 series
every character seems like a girl, there emo and when they try to be funny it
it's either funny or fail.
MrSonicFan34
This is by far the worst animated adaption in the whole entire Sonic series, this series really had not effort put into it whatsoever, probably due to Sonic not doing well in japan at all. But to me, that brings up the question, why does this thing exist in the first place? Story - 3/10 In terms of the series plot, well... it does not really have a plot until later in the series, the first 26 episodes of this is just basicly Sonic and freinds going on an adventure to find the Chaos emeralds to get back hime after being transported to earth. After the first26 episodes is the first time where the plot has any significance. To bad they were lazy and just took the plots from the two Sonic Adventure games and made a terrible adaption of it. Really, the only arc with some ounce of effort put it was the last one, Even that was not very orignal.
Animation - 1/10
Then there's the art, which is some of the worst I have ever seen in my whole entire life. Only a very small percentage of the shows 78 episodes have well drawn, on model animation. And I will admit, those few episodes looked fantastic. But then theres everything else. God. The Sonic Stadium fourms has a thread dedicated to the many different animation styles in the show. And trust me, there are many disgusting ones in there.
Music - 7/10
The music for the show is actually pretty good. The music that plays in the episodes fits it well enough, but I am more focusing on the shows opening and three ending themes, all of which are fantastic and well worth listening to.
Characters - 2/10
Then theres the characters, and I may as well talk about the shows true main character, Chris Thorndyke. I'm serious, he is the only character in the show to get any backstory, or development... To bad he is a unlikable brat. Moving on, we have the "main" character, Sonic, who really only appears at the end of the episode to defeat the Eggmans schemes at the end of most episodes, most of the time he's just lying around doing nothing. No one in the rest of the cast is important at all to be honest, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Cream, just for the most part stand in the background and watch Chris whine and Sonic do all the work. The only character in the show who's worth a damn is Dr. Eggman, and without him, this would be even more painful than the show already is, he is the only source of relief in the whole show, he's a funny and fun to watch.
Overall - 1/10
Don't watch this show. There is almost nothing in it that's worth watching it for. If you want to listen to the opening and endings, you can just listen to them on youtube. Stay away, it's not worth you're time. And if you just have to watch this trainwreck, avoid the 4kids dub like the plauge.
Anim3Punk
A Disappointing Review of Sonic X Story/Characters (5/10): Lets talk about the characters first. Sonic, the blue, funny and fast hedgehog, is the main protagonist of this show. He is the hero, the knight in shining armor, the... okay lets just skip his intro. We all know who Sonic is so there's no need to explain his background. He appears in a lot of videogames and is the mascot character of Sega. In this show he is portrayed as a cool, cocky and fast character. He is headstrong and always runs before he thinks. His goal is to stop Dr. Eggman from obtaining the Chaos Emeralds. Dr.Eggman, Sonic's power hungry arch-enemy, is a mad scientist who wants all of the 7 Chaos Emeralds in order to gain absolute power (...for some reason).
Supporting cast: essentially, anyone who is not Sonic or Dr. Eggman is a supporting cast member. Even the human protagonist, Christopher Thorndyke had been converted to being a simple damsel in distress. In fact most of the main cast was there just to help Sonic. Other than that they were pretty much useless.
Honorable mention goes to Shadow and Rouge, who are by far the coolest characters with the best backstories aside from Sonic himself.
The story seems very generic with the hero finding things in order to defeat the main villain. In Sonic X's case, he bursts into Dr. Eggman's base right when he was about to achieve absolute power. Sonic interferes with his plan which causes an explosion that transports everyone to Earth. After that, Sonic and his friends team up with Chris to collect all the Chaos Emeralds in order for them to get home and defeat Dr. Eggman.
Art/Animation (6/10): The art/animation was watchable but nothing stood out as interesting.
Sound/Music (6/10): Generic. Nothing stood out as interesting except for the theme song. I found that to be very catchy.
Dub or Sub?: Sub. If you plan on watching this, go with the sub/Japanese version. They edited a lot of violent stuff out of the Japanese version when they created the American version. The American version was very kid friendly. The english dub voice acting was acceptable but the dialogue wasn't very good.
Enjoyment (6/10): The show entertained me when I was young but now, I mainly see it as a waste of time. The only thing that was worthwhile was any interactions/battles that took place between Sonic and Dr. Eggman.
Summary/Overall (6/10): Overall, this is a kid's show so all of the things that I listed above are not important. The story is generic. The characters are uninteresting (aside from the four I mentioned above). The art and sound aren't that impressive. And, the show does absolutely no justice to any of the Sonic videogames that I played as a child.
Review #5
Robijet
Hey, do you know Sonic? Than this is a super duper opertunity to take a new (now old)adventure whit your favorite Sonic Charackters! Its a original Japanese Story about the Sonic Universe. Whe got a Sonic Movie and you may thougt is this the Real Storry there? Whel , if you whana loock clously backstorry than sadly not. The Sonic Movie is another universe. Sonic X is diferent. It shows every bit from our best Charackters Storry board specally Shadow, the Edgy enemi. The action, Sound, is top. You whil have fun time watching it. The Storry is also about to collect the 7 ChaosEmeralds. Plot is, Sonic lifes whit a kit Christopher 12 years old whit his familly togheter.
superidol788
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N0TH1NG2SEE
Sonic X began as an ordinary Anime for kids in its first half. Simple created episodes where Sonic helps the people on earth and slowly becomes considered a hero in society. The characters were all pretty good and thoroughly introduced, which gave the viewer the certain feel of commitment. While the plot wasn't mainly focused in the first half, most episodes were entertaining and gave someone a better view on the whole Sonic Universe. All in all a comfy procedure. The comedy might not be for everyone, but it isn't bad. Then, when the second half began, a lot changed. The show was given a whole new setting andthe plot was primarily focused. This made the whole Anime way more interesting and kept the viewer hooked, who was looking for more action, more storytelling and most importantly a certain meaning.
I don't want to say that the first half was bad or anything, it's just that the second was a lot more interesting and fun to watch. It is the reason why this show is considered to be good.
The first half was pretty slow paced, while the second was the exact opposite.
The ending of the show is something very significant. It is really sad. Not a happy ending, just the bland reality. But very good.
It is very thrilling and touching.
It is one of those ends you could call: "fulfilling."
I don't think anyone could have created an ending better.
If you don't mind watching Anime that is targeted at kids I would really recommend you to watch it.
And something to note, throughout the show many truths have been spilled. It teaches you to beware a healthy mind and do the right thing.
You learn for your life while watching this. Something you can't say for every show.
That means, yes. I would call this Anime good for the development of children's minds.
If I had to vote for each half separate I'd give the first a 3/5 and the second a 5/5, which gives a result of 8/10 in total. Storywise.
Additional:
OST was pretty neat, though I like the english opening more I wouldn't recommend watching it in English at all since it's heavily cut and the voices are straight up bad.
The animations are alright, considering it's been drawn by different animators throughout the show.
Nothing great but nothing bad either.
The voices were good, compared to the English ones they appear even better.
Thank you for reading my review.
AngelKitty
Okay, this is my first ever review on here, so this may really suck... But here we go. First let me say that I'm not even going to bother with the 4Kids dub. The dub was so terrible that it's one of the biggest reasons why I regret ever watching this. I'm going to focus on the original Japanese version as much as I can and just pretend that the 4Kids dub never existed. Everyone knows how much 4Kids ruins anime. But with that out of the way, let's get started with the actual review. This was one of the very first anime series I remember lovingwhen I was a kid. I remember even rewatching some of the episodes over and over and constantly talking about it with my friends and always drawing the characters. But now that I've grown up and matured a bit more, I think to myself: Was it really that good? Unfortunately, no, it wasn't as good as I remember it being. However, I didn't think it was TERRIBLE exactly. It's a typical anime based off of a video game. You can't expect it to be spectacular.
Story: 6/10.
The story, if I can remember, is about Dr. Eggman collecting all seven of the Chaos Emeralds and also captures Cream the Rabbit, so Sonic comes to try and save Cream and take the Emeralds out of Eggman's hands. All this leads to an accident where a very large explosion occurs and Sonic and all his friends are then transported to Earth, not knowing how they can return to their home planet, Mobius. All seven of the Chaos Emeralds have been scattered around Earth and now Sonic and his friends must collect them all before Eggman does.
The story itself wasn't horrible. It wasn't breathtaking and thrilling, but it wasn't horrible. It's really no worse than any other typical kid's anime plot. The characters are separated from their home planet, they do what they can do to help the planet that they've landed on, and they eventually make their way home. Plus it's also got some cliche mech-like fighting with all the air force pilots and robots and the transformations for getting super powers, so again, it's like your typical cliche, anime plot. It's nothing too special. Pretty cheesy, but nothing horrible.
Art: 7/10.
The art was actually pretty decent. The environments were very colorful and vivid and the lighting was average. They would sometimes overdo the lighting effects and make things too bright and I thought they overdid that a bit. However, the scenery itself, again, was very vivid and pretty. The city scenes were nothing special, but when they'd focus more on Sonic's world, the scenery was just very enjoyable to look at. The character designs were decent as well. It had the same, unique style that Sonic has had for years. The characters just really stick out and I still enjoy their designs. Unlike your typical chibi cat with dot eyes and a 3-shaped mouth, they just have their own, unique style which to me seemed like an American cartoon style mixed with the anime style, and that again, is what I thought was so unique about the style. So the art was, in my honest opinion, very well done, but they could have used less light effects.
Sound: 6/10.
To be honest, a lot of the tracks sounded the same to me... Then again, I usually don't pay too much attention to the soundtracks in anime. They all had a good, jumpy, actiony feel to them while others had just a sort of "sit back and relax" feel... If that made any sense. The opening theme, in my opinion, was pretty terrible. I liked how the clips were all put together, but the song was just kind of awful. Again, just my opinion. However, the ending theme for the last season was very charming to me. It was a sweet, little love song and just in general had a cute scene going on. I enjoyed some tracks in this anime, but most of them just sounded the same to me.
Character: 5/10. They were quirky enough. A lot of the characters just had a pretty sarcastic personality. Some were hostile and impatient, others were sweet and social. Most of the human characters were pretty irritating and were generally useless and so were a few of the animal characters. Some of the characters were pretty much just there to get in the way and others just showed up for some filler episodes, so the characters weren't really that special. They had some silly dialog here and there, but they weren't anything that made my jaw drop in awe.
Enjoyment: 5/10.
It wasn't horrible, but it isn't the sort of thing that I'd sit down and watch again. It had it's silly, quirky moments, but nothing that would make me go "Hey, let's go watch some Sonic X! YEAH!!". That's probably one of the last things I'd say.
Overall: 4/10.
I enjoyed the fighting scenes and some of the silly, arguing scenes. The art, again, was nice to look at and the story wasn't horrible. I thought it was more cliche than anything. The soundtrack was okay and the characters were fine. Personally, I thought a lot of the episodes were just boring, filler episodes, but they didn't make me wanna throw up. They just weren't that entertaining. So again, the anime is rather cliche and just had a lot of filler episodes, but it wasn't outrageously horrible. Not something I'd sit down and watch again, but still not as horrible as people say it is. Just avoid watching the 4Kids dub and it should be an okay anime.
Ember_Blackwood
Ever since I was a young kid I enjoyed playing Sonic The hedgehog games. They were not only fun, but something that simply drew me in was the link you'd create with some of the characters. Sonic X is not exactly that kind of anime. For hardcore fans of the series like myself, it is without any doubts something you have to watch, but if you aren't, then you might be disappointed. The plot of the story, or should I say storieS since Sonic X is splitted in 3 segments, each covering different arcs. The first arc was a bit painful, a slice-of-life style that justdidn't feel right. The second and third arcs were really enjoyable for me though. The references to Sonic Adventure DX and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle were well placed. The games obviously did it better, but it is still nice to see such spinoff.
The ending, or the 3rd arc, is what the first should've been. They picked up an actual story they've and made it progress through the last few episodes. It was... weird, yet fun to watch. This anime is definitively not the best spinoff that could have been made, but I would recommend it to any hardcore fans of the Sonic saga.
GokensLetsPlays
Sonic X is an anime that's based off of Sonic Adventure, originally released for the Sega Dreamcast. The anime is about Sonic and friends trying to stop Doctor Ivo Robotnik (Or just simply Eggman). While fighting him, Chaos Control happens, sending Sonic & Co. from the planet of Mobius to Earth. While running across Station Square, Sonic lands in a pool, and a young boy named Christopher Thorndyke goes to rescue him. As the plot goes on, Sonic meets some of his friends, such as Cream the Rabbit and Miles "Tails" Prower, also meeting a long-time rival, Knuckles the Echidna. It's from there that theAdventure Arc. starts up and characters from Sonic Adventure show up. If you've played Sonic Adventure, you already know the plot, but otherwise, you'll enjoy it.
Art style:
For me, I loved all the visuals from this show. Everything looked amazing and the visuals for the anime were down-right stunning. The characters in it are similar to their regular video game models, but with more detail than their Dreamcast models.
Sound:
The voice acting can be either good or bad for some people. In the English Dub, I loved Mike Pollock as Dr. Eggman, he plays the role perfectly and is the current voice actor to this day. Jason Griffith and others also do a fairly good job on their characters, aside from a certain future character. Sonic's Japanese Voice Actor also does a good job as Sonic, but I will admit that I haven't seen much of the Japanese version. For the most part, these voices fit their characters.
Characters:
Sonic has his personality like he does in current games: Cocky, cheesy, cool, but can be serious when the time comes. Christopher Thorndyke is annoying a lot of the time, but gets a lot better in Season 3. I'll only talk about three more, and these three are Team Chaotix. Vector is a clumsy goof who has it in for Cream's mother, Vanilla. *Ba dum tss.* Espio is a ninja, so he's much more calm and cool than the other two. Charmy is what a Six-Year-Old should be: Hyperactive, full of energy, moving around a lot, and talking a lot. I love all three of these characters, especially Vector. Sonic can be dumb at times, but Sonic always has been like this. Tails is the smart one, but admires Sonic like an older brother. Knuckles is very, very stupid. Amy is your typical fangirl, obsessing over Sonic. Eggman's robot assistants, Decoe and Bocoe are your Scratch and Grounder of this show. They can be dumb. Bokkun is like a child, whining over simple things. I won't talk about every character, cause I'd spoil some of the future characters, but they're similar to their video game counterparts.
Enjoyment:
Growing up with Sonic the Hedgehog, I can say that this show was great. If you're watching the English dub, even with all the edits compared to the Japanese version, you'll enjoy at least some of the roles, especially Mike Pollock as Dr. Eggman. That's easily one of the best roles in the show. If you liked Sonic Adventure and Sonic Battle, you'll enjoy it a lot!
Overall:
I love the art-style of all these characters. I love most of these characters. I love the story. I love most of the voice acting. I like the soundtrack to this show. Either way, yes, I do recommend this show. If you like Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, and Sonic Battle, you're going to, at the very least, love Seasons 1 and 2. This anime gets an 8/10. It was a great show, and if you're a fan of the blue blur like myself, you're going to love this show.
Jiren_CHAD
Sonic X is merely proof that you cannot bank off the success of others. Let us remain forthright—Sonic X cannot stand on itself. (Ironically, neither can the Sonic games.) It's an anime that banks off the successes of others, from Dragon Ball to Gundam. Ironically, it tries to bank off the success of Sonic the Hedgehog itself, by creating a story about a boy named Chris Thorndyke and mindlessly shoehorning Sonic and his pals in a more recently modern style into the anime. There's so little to say here—it's so insipid and repetitive that by the time it gets even remotely acceptable, the game of charades areover.
The story revolves a cast of pointless human characters, attempting to throw in a "relatable" perspective for its young viewers. If I were to be quite frank with you, Chris is the point of view character, as it feels like you're "watching" Sonic, rather than Sonic having any raw exposition of his own. Unfortunately, it insinuates the idea that the blue eulipotyphla himself is not worthy of holding his own individual plotline and characterization absolved from all anime-original (fillershit) characters and settings. All of the characters feel like one big flat character arc, and the major growth is focused on Chris crying his heart out for an alien hedgehog.
That's not to say that there is no point and meaning behind the addition of these characters themselves, but that they virtually mean nothing in the grand scheme of things and hinder the quality of the series more than benefitting it.
I also don't get the idea of it being majorly episodic for majority of the series. It's dreadful. This is not Pretty Cure, for crying out loud. I don't give a shit about Chris Thorn"dyke" and his mishaps throughout elementary school! I'd understand if episodes like Sonic Baseball were fillers thrown around every now and then. The thing about episodes like fillers being an every now and then thing is that we get to see the softer side of characters we already love as they explore harsher settings. I don't care about these Phineas and Ferb-bullshit-style adventures where Chris is having a silly normal day and Sonic defeats Eggman's new invention.
The countless majority of the episodes serve as pointless fluff. A plot centered around the misadventures of the speedy hedgehog and his posse bears more than enough potential to work with. After all, it's not the idea of an anime-centered plot being an issue, it's that the mahou shoujo episodic bullshit structure of episodes tells you its demographic. And please, don't dare push onto me the bullshit argument and logistical failure that due to it being a children's show, then it's okay for it to be low-effort garbage. You're insinuating that our younger generations don't deserve better material to work with, and that they shouldn't enrichen their horizons.
The final saga of the series, the Metarex Saga fixes some of these problems, but the series already spent the past 50 episodes slowly building characters that I don't give an actual shit about it. Go fuck yourself.
In addition to the abhorrent plot, the animation has unquestionably aged and is in itself an unspeakably unsightly plight. The sound effects, to say the least, shit the bed, and I want that horrid superhero horn sound effect from the dub out of my head.
Final ranking: Garbage moeshit trying not to be. Chris could thrive in his own dogshit kids anime for all I care, but I suppose to SEGA that the idea of slapping a Sonic label onto his anime and then making it very thinly related to Sonic the Hedgehog as it goes on is more important than anything else.
Duckielover151
It actually feels a little strange that MyAnimeList doesn't separate this show into different entries by season, the way pretty much everywhere you can stream it marks a distinction between the seasons, because each of the three seasons felt like a very different experience to me. Season one is a pretty generic kids' show. Sonic and company accidentally get themselves transported to Earth and befriend a young boy named Chris, who doesn't really have a personality to speak of but DOES have a conveniently rich and influential family. So the Thorndyke mansion becomes the gang's headquarters as they go about their conflict of the weektype storylines, fighting Dr. Eggman and trying to find a way back to their own planet.
It's fine for what it is. Good even. I imagine the targeted age group (which is around 7 years old) would find this show pretty enjoyable. I remember liking it quite a lot when I was a kid. But some kids' shows are just... stronger than others. Enjoyable in more of an all-ages kind of way. And I wouldn't say season one of Sonic X held up that well, in that regard. I found it a little dull and inconsequential as an adult. (But again, that's not a particularly strong critique, as I recognize that it's not MADE for adults.)
I was actually really disappointed with season two. I'd really been looking forward to season two, because it's the batch of episodes that animates the storylines from the Sonic Adventure games that I'd grown up on and still remember fondly. All I can say... All I probably HAVE to say... is that, though the full season is 26 episodes, BOTH games' storylines are shoved into the first eleven. Everything was so insanely rushed that none of the genuinely emotional plot points from the games manage to leave an impact or even hit the target at all, most of the time. It was just really bad.
And then they try to shove in a storyline with Chris when it finally is time for the Sonic characters to return home.... About how he can't bring himself to say goodbye because they've changed his life so much and he finally has real friends after being neglected by his parents all his life... And honestly, that didn't really work either. It SHOULD have. I was expecting a storyline like that pretty much from the moment his family dynamics are introduced. But Chris never seemed all that bothered by his parents' absence in his life until that very moment. And even then, they really didn't play that kind of storyline out to its full potential the way they could have. If Chris had been this super timid kid who hadn't been able to make any friends at school or anything either until befriending Sonic's gang gave him some courage or something... it could have worked. But this kid was perfectly-- frankly, unreasonably-- well-adjusted until the moment the story demanded that he not be to try and manipulate an emotional response out of the audience, and I just wasn't falling for it.
But season three actually brought this show back around. Thanks to some time warp shenanigans, Chis is now a lot older than he looks, complete with some skills that allow him to actually help out in a crisis, instead of just get captured and need to be rescued. So that was nice. And the story did shift to be enjoyable in more of that all-ages way. A longer, continuous conflict. Character development that actually meant something and moved me a bit. (Chris isn't the only one who got to grow up. Cream gets a nice little arc where she wants to prove to her mother that she's mature enough to go into battle with her friends too, and she DOES pull her weight in this final season.) The traveling-around-the-galaxy storyline was actually a little reminiscent of Dragon Ball GT to me. Honestly, season three could almost stand alone. This anime does, at least, go out on a pretty strong note.
I wouldn't say it's good enough that I'm likely to ever rewatch it, just for fun. But it's pretty good over all, even accounting for some really rough patches.
TheUltimateKalie
Gah! So terrible. The only reason why I watched the show was because I liked the games. This show kills the psychology of the characters and any form of plot from the games. There are some parts to the series where the character could have done something right off the bat to avoid the whole situation but instead, decideds to do nothing or do the stupidest thing possible. It was just a terrible anime.
