Sonic X

Truly wonderful series. It definitely starts out slow, but once the third episode comes around, it really picks up. The human characters aren't the best additions to the Sonic universe I've ever seen, but they're tolerable. Sonic and Co., however, are very well developed. I've only seen the series in Japanese so far, but I'm not sure if I'll watch it in English. I can't imagine what it'd be like with the English voice actors for the Sonic Adventure series (if that's who'll be used). Still, if you can catch it in the original language, I highly recommend it.

This has been a great Sonic cartoon comeback! But also it is a little different from the other Sonic cartoons like Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) and Sonic Underground. Because this series was produced by 4-Kids Entertainment (the creators who did Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh!) and the first three Sonic cartoons were produced by DiC Entertainment. This series is based on the brand new Sonic video-games for Nintendo Gamecube. In this series, Sonic and his friends are trying to collect the powerful chaos emeralds before the evil, Dr. Eggman (aka Dr. Robotnik) gets the chaos emeralds. Sonic and his friends were accidentally transported from their world to the real world with the power of chaos control and then all the chaos emeralds were scattered in random places around the world. This time Amy Rose gets to be in this Sonic cartoon and so does Rouge the Bat and Shadow the Hedgehog! When I first watched the sneak preview at this show on Fox Box (formally known as Fox Kids), I thought at first Jaleel White was going to return to his role of Sonic the Hedgehog but instead they used a different voice actor named Jason Anthony Griffith who does a pretty good job at doing the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog. Plus I think Dan Green does an excellent job at doing the voice of the all and powerful Knuckles the Echidna! I am really glad Knuckles is in this series again just like in the last series in 1999, Sonic Underground! I like the animation to this show and the voice acting is pretty good. Maybe with the success of this show maybe it will help bring back new episodes of Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) and Sonic Underground. But who knows?

User Rating: 10/10

BOTTOM LINE: A GREAT SUPER SONIC COMEBACK!

Take the Japanese Sonic X. Excelent dialog, music, and character voices. Add 4kids Entertainment. The result is a horrible dubbing of an excelent series. The dialog: acceptable words and phrases from the Japanese version were changed into cheesy jokes and sentences no one uses. The music: Japan had two excelent songs, Sonic Drive and Mi-Ra-I. 4kids removed both and replaced with repetive dull theme music. In-show music originally techno-esc music has been replaced with cartoon orchestral music. Character voices: Horrible, most of them are cheesy actors that can't speak normal. I wish the Japanese voice actors knew english. But even if they did, 4kids woldn't even take them. I'll stick with the subtitled episodes from WolfPack Productions.

I'm watching it for the first time in a decade and also the first time with English subtitles rather than English voice acting (recommended by the way). It's not a fantastic show. It just isn't. It's an anime about anthropomorphic herdgehogs, it's not gonna be winning any Emmys. It is overdramatic and incredibly edgy, especially the episodes including Shadow. It's storylines are kinda dumb. But it's also the first Sonic cartoon I watched that actually has serious stuff going on. There's death and stuff, ya know? It's not purely a kids tv show. And even though that makes it come off as edgy and a little off, I still like it. It's definitely not for everyone, just for people who already know the characters and don't mind watching a show where you're invested in what's going on half of the time and and smiling about how ridiculous it all is the other half. If you can put up with that, then it's something that's enjoyable enough to watch.

I get why people while say that It has too much focus on Chris Thorndyke and other side characters. But it is a fun show none the less. I feel like the critics don't get it.