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 loving
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when 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.
Oct 6, 2012
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 loving ... |
