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Oh God, where do I start with this insult to intellect?Sonic X is one anime where I will fully admit that it's much better in its original unedited and uncrapified Japanese version. It might be a bitch looking for episodes with English subtitles, but trust me.
Having your ears raped by Cream's nails-on-a-chalkboard voice will be incentive enough. x____e;
I blame 4kids entirely for the epic fails seen in this anime. I can understand the need for SOME censorship, since the Japanese are a lot more lax about swear words in children's television than we are.
BUT, they took it WAY too far. :/
Any of you remember that beautiful song in the episode "Memories on the Wind"? (forgive me if I messed that up, I remember it's something like that). When Amy spots Super Sonic flying through the sky after months of absence from him and runs to her house to meet him, and when she gets there, admits that she'll wait forever for him an they come damn close to a love scene? (seriously, Sonic even gave her a rose)
If you watched the ENGLISH version, you wouldn't know what in the world i'm talking about. xD
Because 4kids, for some reason, decided that the BEAUTIFUL Japanese song should be cut out, the scene should be dramatically shortened, hell they even cut out the sign that said it was Amy's House! That, I have NO idea why. D:
But I digress, on a character I actually can't stand too. xD Just try to find the Japanese version of that episode and you'll understand how much better it is.
Because 4kids fucked up a LOT more than just that in this thing. :/
First off, the voices. Oh God, the voices. Few were actual improvements, like Espio, Blaze, Charmy, Knuckles, and Eggman (they had no choice with him). The rest? Barely tolerable.
Rouge sounds like a 40-year-old smoker hooker, instead of the lovely flirtacious voice she had before.
Amy sounds even more annoying than before, because 4kis made it possible.
Sonic sounds like he's going through PUBERTY all over again. (I MISS YOU RYAN DRUMMOND!)
Shadow's turned into this emo whisperer ghost version of himself. Sometimes I feel like he's going to start writing dark poetry on a spontaneous whim halfway through a level or something. >__>;
Vector sounds mentally retarded. FIND DAH COMPUTER ROOM!
Tails..he sounded a lot better in Sonic Adventure 2: Battle. He was voiced by an actual BOY then. xD
Well, that covers my issue with 4kids voice actors. Let's move on to the REALLY intolerable element of this show. The thing that made a part of me die inside from sheer implosion of intellectual thought.
Chris Thorndyke
I still don't understand what makes him so special. He's a sad lonely little boy who's only purpose on the entire show is to replace Tails' rightful place as Sonic's best friend. Other than that? Sonic probably saves him just as much as Amy Rose, and I don't see that as something to be proud of.
He whines, he cries, and he makes Amy that much more tolerable. In fact, he even took AMY's place in the SA2B storyline as the one who trigers Shadow's full memory. That was a 'What the hell!' moment for me. :/
I don't like him. Plain and simple. xD
ONE MORE THING TO COVER. This is getting longer than I expected. Whew. xD
The characters got fucked up a little too.
-Shadow appearing, then disappearing, then appearing again and then disappearing AGAIN. Since when did he become Houdini? >__>;;
-Knuckles was even more aggravated than usual. Like he was constantly constipated. D:
-Cosmo. She was sweet, but horrifically predictable. I knew from the get-go she was going to be some kind of spy for the Metarex. Why else would she stick around so long? :/
-Sonic. I only say this, because of that brief moment of Dark Super Sonic. THAT was impressive and I REALLY would have loved to see Sonic do some real carnage there. But that would probably damage little children's minds and tempt them into shooting people or thinking they can fly. D:
Well, I think i'm gonna cut off there. xD If you like, comment me with your opinions! I haven't watched Sonic X in quite some time, so I bet you all could give examples I haven't thought about yet. xDD
Sonic X doesn't belong to me. It belongs to 4kids. Devil company. >/ It also belongs to Sega. Because I guess people will go around reporting people if they get credits a teensy-bit wrong. :/
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Comments: 190
peanut72712 In reply to ??? [2011-07-19 18:42:44 +0000 UTC]
i like sonic x please dont hurt me
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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to peanut72712 [2011-07-19 20:19:37 +0000 UTC]
Lol, why would I hurt you? Everyone's entitled to their opinion. xD
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peanut72712 In reply to Flaming-Hailstorm [2011-07-19 20:20:13 +0000 UTC]
cause i like sonic x
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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to peanut72712 [2011-07-20 03:55:29 +0000 UTC]
I just said everyone is entitled to their opinions. I'm not going to take a machete to your neck just because you disagree with me.
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Saphire1515 In reply to ??? [2011-07-15 19:59:01 +0000 UTC]
Ugh. 4kids needs to go out of business
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kid45buu2 In reply to ??? [2011-06-24 18:00:06 +0000 UTC]
i agree on some levels (yes 4kids did censor a little to heavily, yes shadow acted emo, yes Chris can be a little pussy) but that is what the game idea XMA is designed on. I'm going to rewind sonic X back to shortly after the final fight and create a new story in the sonic X universe. about TAILS.
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Sephirath21000 In reply to ??? [2011-06-04 07:16:37 +0000 UTC]
There should be a reason behind the characters of this show always actinglike they do here... and I'm not just talking about the english versions of them.
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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to PeachyPie101 [2011-04-15 05:27:26 +0000 UTC]
You're welcome. xD
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Dioran In reply to ??? [2011-02-23 06:19:33 +0000 UTC]
i dont like amy, she reminds me of a bully at school
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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to Dioran [2011-02-23 06:26:16 +0000 UTC]
Really? Oh no. D:
I guess hammers really must be evil.
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Auxilon In reply to ??? [2011-02-22 22:09:37 +0000 UTC]
Love the fact that you bolded CHRIS THORNDYKE. He sounded like he had a dyke doing his voice, too.
You've covered everything I can think of. Love your commentary.
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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to Auxilon [2011-02-23 01:59:41 +0000 UTC]
Thank you. <3
Yes. No criticism of Sonic X would be complete without some mentioning of Chris Thorndyke. xD
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pkstarstorm1up [2010-12-19 21:10:52 +0000 UTC]
Chris is a great character and is Sonic's other best friend. You can have more then one best friend.
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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to pkstarstorm1up [2010-12-20 01:55:40 +0000 UTC]
I'm not saying that you can't.
I'm saying that Chris took Tails' role as that, and therefore left him almost redundant. Like he did to a lot of characters (i.e Amy's role in the SA2B arc).
And, i'm sorry, but I only see Chris as this clingy over-sensitive little crybaby who'd sooner suffocate Sonic with his selfish neediness than ever be a true best friend.
But, we all have opinions.
By the way, my Grammar Nazi side says that it's 'than', not 'then'.
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pkstarstorm1up In reply to Flaming-Hailstorm [2010-12-20 02:19:16 +0000 UTC]
but what roles? What roles from the adventure series did Chris take from Tails? The only one I can think of is helping Big find Froggy, and Cream did that as well.
But that's what Sonic Team wanted since they created the chacter of Chris and Sonic X.
Besides anyone in his situation would have acted the same, he's a lonely kid who just wants his parents to spend time with him, Sonic was able to get them to come home more often and he felt that Sonic leaving would regress his life back to loneliness.
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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to pkstarstorm1up [2011-01-07 07:26:41 +0000 UTC]
I get what you're saying, and i'm sure on some level I am being a little unfair to Chris, but I just can't likhim, for my reasons stated.
What was intended doesn't mean much to me. It's how I interpret it, and I interpret Chris negatively because not a lot of positives ring out to me about him. The show would have been just as fine without him and the other humans.
I particularly don't like him in the last season. All this ridiculous nonsense just to get him back as a super smart child (Haven't we already explored this with Tails?) and ONCE AGAIN go through a tearful farewell at the end. Ugh.
I just don't like him, and i'm sorry we disagree on that.
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GeminiTheWolf In reply to ??? [2010-12-13 19:20:19 +0000 UTC]
I had an awesome dream once. It goes something like this:
Okay, so me and my friends are so at that we launch a f*cking at them, and they were like: , and after that, we rebuild the entire city into the Archadian Empire (fans of FFXII, anyone?). Don't ask why. Anyways, we then bring back Sonic X and make mjor changes (Chris gets killed and Cosmo is brought back), and before we knew it, it became the most popular show in the world, and we became very f*cking rich.
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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to GeminiTheWolf [2010-12-14 08:42:21 +0000 UTC]
...
Lol, wut?
xDD That is single-handedly the most randomly constructed comment I have ever received.
I take it your subconscious despises 4kids just a tad? xD
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GeminiTheWolf In reply to Flaming-Hailstorm [2010-12-14 18:17:38 +0000 UTC]
MY FRIENDS AND I HATE 4KIDS.
They always butcher awesome anime.
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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to GeminiTheWolf [2010-12-14 18:37:47 +0000 UTC]
They do, indeed. :/
Honestly, sometimes, I just wish I knew Japanese. xD
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BlackCeiling In reply to ??? [2010-11-10 02:48:38 +0000 UTC]
Both the japanese AND english versions of sonic x sucked. There are no words to express how much I hate that show
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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to BlackCeiling [2010-11-10 05:26:09 +0000 UTC]
The Japanese version is much better than the English version.
It's not a fantastic show, but the Japanese version is easier to watch.
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Mikazuchi In reply to ??? [2010-11-02 02:00:59 +0000 UTC]
While I do agree that the original Japanese is a million times better than the 4kids edit, a million times zero is still zero.
Sonic X is a poorly done adaptation to the awesome Sonic Adventure video games. While I understand there's no way they could've carried the level of action from the games into the anime, they didn't have to give so much attention to the OC's no one cares about, Chris being the poster boy.
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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to Mikazuchi [2010-11-02 04:01:08 +0000 UTC]
I guess I can agree with you there. I thought it was a little lame that they carried already well-known plotlines into the anime. We all know what's going to happen, we only get to see a few changes or scenes the games left to our imagination.
But that was it, and it was admittely a little lame of a decision.
I can say that they did become original-ish, with Cosmo and the Metarex..but it was still so bad. Horribly predictable and cliche what would happen. I could smell Cosmo as a spy a mile away.
I guess, it's just more tolerable in Japanese. xD
In English, god, it's just got no points of redemption. D:
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Jackie-The-Werewolf [2010-11-01 20:31:07 +0000 UTC]
I totally agree with what you said about Chris. A couple of my friends actually LIKE Chris, and ask me why I hate him. I feel like just plain yelling "CHRIS IS AN IDIOT!!!"...
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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to Jackie-The-Werewolf [2010-11-02 00:40:38 +0000 UTC]
He just seems so unnecessary to the series. I mean, sending the Sonic group into the human world was an okay idea, but Chris just dominated everything with his whiny clinginess. :/
And even when the group came back home, they STILL had to involve Chris again, using a REALLY stupid reason and forcing us to watch ANOTHER tearful goodbye at the end of THAT season.
It's like, "Okay, seriously. The novelty wore off 40 episodes ago. Make Chris fall off a cliff or something already." :/
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Drawingforaliving In reply to ??? [2010-10-31 20:42:30 +0000 UTC]
Back when I was little,I though Sonic X was ok,then when I got older and saw the original uncut Japanese versions,the english censored Sonic X seemed so suckish.
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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to Drawingforaliving [2010-10-31 22:31:25 +0000 UTC]
It is suckish. xD
I wish I knew Japanese, sometimes. xDD
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Drawingforaliving In reply to Flaming-Hailstorm [2010-11-01 01:04:20 +0000 UTC]
Same here.XD
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Tom-the-Foxey In reply to ??? [2010-10-31 15:34:03 +0000 UTC]
Dont forget about the ending of season 3. As i agree with all your other conserns, i'd say the thing that tripped me off the cliff was how they epicly fuc#$d up the moment where tails shot cosmo. Just to see, i watched the japaneese version with english subtitals, And i have to say,
WHAT THE F%@K was there to censor?
These guys must have been smoking a killer ammount of crack while they edited this, because everyone i've ever met can never find anything wrong with it.
i say, FOPRGET THE CHILDREN!
(not to be taked the wrong way) at the time this came out most sonic fan's had grown older! im sure they could save us the decincy.
if i were working there i'd just switch up the jap' to english and leave it! make it rated R or something, but don't screw with the story!
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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to Tom-the-Foxey [2010-10-31 18:52:44 +0000 UTC]
THANK YOU.
4kis fucking MURDERED a beautiful heart-wrenching scene just so they could soften the blow for the kids, which I can't stand. :/
In the original Japanese version, you can actually SEE and FEEL Tails' heart breaking as he kills the first girl he's ever had feelings for. You cna HEAR it in his voice as he protests angrily and screams as he commits the act.
What they did to it..It was a major disappointment. :/
They just don't cater to the older fans anymore. They tried only once with the Shadow the Hegehog game, an yet it still wasn't as dark and deadly as the hype led to believe.
It's all about the damned kids, I guess. D:
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Tom-the-Foxey In reply to Flaming-Hailstorm [2010-11-01 21:45:07 +0000 UTC]
Oh no, im not done!
Truefully, i don't give a $#1T about 4kids, and i think i could learn to live with it, but the one thing i don't understand,
why the F#%K did they take out tails' Yell, "I Love You!" ???!
If you think about it, that was just stupid.
take a disney movie for example, snow white! that was all kissy smoochy romance crap, and it was a kid's movie! WTF? not satasfyed? try another well known childrens tale, Cinderella! or how about Beauty and the beast? the list goes on and on and on and on!!!
As i said before, i can deal with all the other $#1T they put in and took out of the origional storyline, but if they won't even dare to do something a multi million doller childrens company will, then thats sad.
That does seem to be true, and to tell ya, all the children could give a $#1t. the avrage 'child' today knows things adults speculate about. One of my good friends is 11 and he has the matureity of a 20 year old. i'd say those 'children' can handle a little more violence, a little more romance above the standing zero!
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GeminiTheWolf In reply to Tom-the-Foxey [2010-12-13 19:30:40 +0000 UTC]
3 things:
1. I'm on the same level as you on the whole Cosmo's death scene. Why they censored it, I have no damn idea. It was the perfect love scene, for Christ's sake.
2. Why did SEGA want to kill off Cosmo anyway? She was the best character in the whole show.
3. Speaking of Disney stuff, let's not leave out Hunchback of Notre Dame. That movie pretty much introduced kids to sexual harassment. Not only does the main bad guy, who's 60 years old or so, want to rape a 20-year-old woman, he also sings a song about it called "Hellfire".
*Sigh*...back then, when people had balls...
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Tom-the-Foxey In reply to GeminiTheWolf [2010-12-15 12:14:27 +0000 UTC]
1= no kidding. . .
2=i guess they didn't think her as a likewise character, or someone just to have for that show. . .
3= oh sure, its not only disney. but they still dont seem to care about it UNLESS its on tv. . .
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GeminiTheWolf In reply to Tom-the-Foxey [2010-12-15 18:42:22 +0000 UTC]
Finally, someone who's on the same page as me.
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Tom-the-Foxey In reply to GeminiTheWolf [2010-12-17 02:53:32 +0000 UTC]
to bad the majority of people that actually watch it don't have much background infrmation about them, they just see as them like that and even go with it, gahh. . . i just want to strangle um' somtimes.
me= soo. . where do you think tails is from?
other= oh hez from SOnic X
^ actual conversation. they had to hold me back.
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GeminiTheWolf In reply to Tom-the-Foxey [2010-12-17 16:17:07 +0000 UTC]
This is also a real conversation:
Me: So, I'm pretty sure you know about Sonic, right?
Other: Yeah, he's the Werehog.
Me:
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Tom-the-Foxey In reply to GeminiTheWolf [2010-12-18 16:47:37 +0000 UTC]
i could make a entire deviation just typing up crazy conversations that infuriated me just with regular people. gahhh.
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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to Tom-the-Foxey [2010-11-02 00:31:12 +0000 UTC]
You have to keep in mind, though, that back then, censorship wasn't such a huge issue. That's why you had things like Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry be common harmless cartoons, despite all the bltant violence.
Now, everyone believes our children are mindless robots who'll do anything just because a cartoon did it. Which is an insult, because most kids can judge the difference between cartoons and reality. :/
I don't understand it. I grew up with movies like Hunchback of Notre Dame and I turned out fine. But a few cases of people NOT in their right mind, and suddenly everything needs to be sugar-coated and padded with bubble wrap. D:
It's really unfortunate, mostly because Censorship itse is a subjective matter. Every person has a different level of tolerance, so I think it's better to have each person DECIDE what they want to watch, instead of having it decided FOR them.
Because personally, taking out the pure raw emotion of a show just leaves it a childish and idiotic shell of itself that I can't stand, so exampled by this poor show. D:
I don't believe our children need to be censored by big companies like this. I say, give us something translated into our language and force the PARENTS to do the censoring themselves, instead of making companies do it to get out of the responsibility. :/
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Tom-the-Foxey In reply to Flaming-Hailstorm [2010-11-02 02:20:20 +0000 UTC]
hey, think about this~ this is a chapter of a book that i will name later.
there was a man that was madly in love with a woman, they had a house out in the country. one day they go in an argument, and the woman stormed off. he found her in the woods and made up with her.
then, three men attacked them and held the woman hostage with the intent of having sexual interactions (rape) with the man. YES the MAN. he refused so they murdured his wife and ran off.
Later, he took his wfes dead body and cut it up, up into little tiny peices (they described it) and distributed her pieces throughout the country so if anyone sees the men they will know and have revenge upon them in the name of the bloody woman.
sound like something that needs to be cencored from our children?
what if i told you that the book that holds these guresome scenes is the BIBLE?
thats right. no lie.
( i forgot exactly where it is in the bible but its there.)
HHUUUMMMMMMMM.....?!~
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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to Tom-the-Foxey [2010-11-02 03:53:19 +0000 UTC]
Um..i'm not following what your point is here. xD
I'm not religious, so I don't count the Bible in any kind of argument/discussion i'm in. Mostly because there's a lot of messed up stuff in there.
Plus..what normal kid is going to sit down and read/digest the entire Bible?
-stops now before someone gets offended-
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