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Flaming-Hailstorm — Sonic X, Why Watch It?

Published: 2010-10-30 22:23:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 10048; Favourites: 103; Downloads: 12
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Description 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

Tom-the-Foxey In reply to ??? [2010-11-02 12:17:39 +0000 UTC]

hey, i see ya there, im not that religious myslef. i just used that as an example of things that should or shouldent be cencored.
(im not saying the bible should be cencored, that infact is my point, you just can't cencor these things!)

idk. i didn't XD just some pages though.

but yeah, i never meant to offend anyone at all with this. if i have im sorry.

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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to Tom-the-Foxey [2010-11-02 17:00:11 +0000 UTC]

Well, like I said, censorship is subjective. It's really up to anyone's discretion, or at least I think it should be. xD

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Tom-the-Foxey In reply to Flaming-Hailstorm [2010-11-02 22:58:15 +0000 UTC]

sooo. . .

good conersation? uh. .

4kids sucks? . . .

yeah.

lets go with that. . .

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Drago2721 In reply to ??? [2010-10-31 14:04:26 +0000 UTC]

SonicX is awesome.
But I lol'd when I saw this.

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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to Drago2721 [2010-10-31 18:54:32 +0000 UTC]

xD Thank you.

I don't mean to insult actual fans of the show, and I hope it didn't come off like that to you. D:

I'm just venting everything I don't like about it, as a person who's not a fan at all. xD

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Drago2721 In reply to Flaming-Hailstorm [2010-10-31 19:30:53 +0000 UTC]

No problem
Nah, I didnt have a problem

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chronocrossfanboy In reply to ??? [2010-10-31 11:58:46 +0000 UTC]

I hate ANYONE who uses the r-word(Retarded) as an insult.

Heck, I hate BATMAN for saying "Are you retarded? I'm the goddamn Batman!"

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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to chronocrossfanboy [2010-10-31 18:55:56 +0000 UTC]

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to insult anyone else with that, really.

Well, besides Vector, I guess, but at the time I couldn't think of a better word to describe him. I just don't like Vector.

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ramirezisoscarmike In reply to ??? [2010-10-31 06:47:32 +0000 UTC]

LEO BURNETT AND 4KIDS ARE THE DEVIL! [link]

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Thy-Muse In reply to ??? [2010-10-31 05:50:34 +0000 UTC]

Wow, chick above me is a total bitch.~

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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to Thy-Muse [2010-10-31 06:16:29 +0000 UTC]

I know, right? I'm new to this because I just started posting things here now. I didn't know my credit was bad. D:

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naoto-rhinestone In reply to ??? [2010-10-31 05:32:26 +0000 UTC]

I know you "credited" it.
Although that was a rather terrible credit...
But this is still against deviantART policies and copryright laws, so I am reporting it.

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LittleMissDalek In reply to ??? [2010-10-31 04:00:09 +0000 UTC]

I love you man.

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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to LittleMissDalek [2010-10-31 04:08:39 +0000 UTC]

Lol, thank you xD

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gurrenlagann29 In reply to ??? [2010-10-31 01:06:04 +0000 UTC]

I agree with you 150% on this man. I swear Cream's voice made my ears bleed more than once -_-.

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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to gurrenlagann29 [2010-10-31 01:13:02 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

I'm amazed the people could stand recording the actor's voice for her. Those are the people I feel sorry for. xD

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gurrenlagann29 In reply to Flaming-Hailstorm [2010-10-31 01:15:31 +0000 UTC]

Oh God yes! >.< Her voice was just....GAH!

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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to gurrenlagann29 [2010-10-31 01:18:40 +0000 UTC]

As much as I hate the others voices, i'll take them over Cream any day.

Even Amy's or Vector's. x___x

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gurrenlagann29 In reply to Flaming-Hailstorm [2010-10-31 01:20:20 +0000 UTC]

God Vector's was bad too. But 4Kids just screwed it up alltogether.

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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to gurrenlagann29 [2010-10-31 01:26:37 +0000 UTC]

Not quite. Eggman's voice is decent, given the circumstances. I actually adore Blaze's because it fits her personality, and Charmy's tolerable.

And Espio? Oh god, he sounds so suave, like James Bond. <3

xD But the rest? Yes, screwed up.

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gurrenlagann29 In reply to Flaming-Hailstorm [2010-10-31 01:38:31 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, Eggman's voice was actually quite good in my opinion. Yeah Blaze's and Charmy's aren't too bad either. Yes, very VERY screwed up.

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wantwon In reply to ??? [2010-10-30 23:37:41 +0000 UTC]

AMEN!! Also if you want to know EVERYTHING that 4Kids f*cked up on, look here. [link]
4kids needs to stop hypnotizing the youth of America, telling them that Japan does not exist.

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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to wantwon [2010-10-30 23:59:08 +0000 UTC]

Holy WOW! I just took a look at it and that thing is DETAILED.

Nice presentation, thank you!

It really really does. Their sense of censorship nees to be seriously re-examined. D:

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wantwon In reply to Flaming-Hailstorm [2010-10-31 00:02:24 +0000 UTC]

This is something I did during the summer to help so called "fans" (brainwashed by 4kids of course) realize they weren't being told the same story. [link]

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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to wantwon [2010-10-31 00:14:02 +0000 UTC]

Wow, nice!

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wantwon In reply to Flaming-Hailstorm [2010-10-31 00:16:42 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, but when I checked a day later my comments never got through their system where comments have to be approved. I introduced one of my cousins to the Japanese version after he watched the American version and he said quote "4kids must die"

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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to wantwon [2010-10-31 00:30:35 +0000 UTC]

LOL

Yeah, 4kids takes away a lot of the things that make the shows as great as they really can be. There's real raw and pure emotion that Americans don't get to see because 4kids replaces it with lame jokes and sound effects.

It's really unfortunate. D:

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wantwon In reply to Flaming-Hailstorm [2010-10-31 00:34:19 +0000 UTC]

And replace the music and blank signs for NO reason! Even if it is in English!!!

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BlackStardustRose In reply to ??? [2010-10-30 22:26:49 +0000 UTC]

*Agrees x6000*
This show is ridiculous.

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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to BlackStardustRose [2010-10-30 22:35:04 +0000 UTC]

Beyond ridiculous. D:

As you can see, i've got rants and a half about all that's wrong with it. xD

Like, Shadow seeing Maria in everyone he sees? Even Rouge? What's next, Eggman? xD

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BlackStardustRose In reply to Flaming-Hailstorm [2010-10-30 22:46:37 +0000 UTC]

Absolutely.

Yeah,you rant better than my sister,and she's a real champ there.Plus it's true.And it's funny to hear people's (good)reasons something is stupid or ridiculous or just plain blasphemy.

hahaha,I'm expecting it to come up sometime...

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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to BlackStardustRose [2010-10-30 22:56:04 +0000 UTC]

Well, thank you!

I like ranting and dicussions with people, so I figured I could start making these about things i've found sad or ridiculous over the years.

So far, i've gotten a good response from people. That makes me happy. <3

Oh my god, I can see it now:

Shadow: MARIA~!

Eggman: GET OFF ME, YOU FIFTY-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN! D<

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BlackStardustRose In reply to Flaming-Hailstorm [2010-11-01 23:40:36 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.^^

I love having those kinds of discussions right now.Plus rants are fun.

LMFAO

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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to BlackStardustRose [2010-11-02 00:35:16 +0000 UTC]

They are! And they're so therapeutic too when you're in a sour mood.

xD

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BlackStardustRose In reply to Flaming-Hailstorm [2010-11-03 17:53:31 +0000 UTC]

You're so right,they are.I have a recording thingamajigger on my computer that I use to record my spoken rants.Later I go back and listen to them.Sometimes they're hilarious.

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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to BlackStardustRose [2010-11-04 17:21:28 +0000 UTC]

LOL, cool!

If I ever did that, i'd probably just get fired up again. xD

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BlackStardustRose In reply to Flaming-Hailstorm [2010-11-04 22:24:43 +0000 UTC]

Hahaha
XD

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123434Conor In reply to ??? [2010-10-30 22:26:21 +0000 UTC]

DAMN YOU 4KIDS, YOU RUINED YU-GI-OH TOO!!!

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Flaming-Hailstorm In reply to 123434Conor [2010-10-30 22:33:35 +0000 UTC]

Yu-Gi-Oh wasn't so bad, for the first couple seasons at least. Then it started getting ridiculous. xD

But, I have noticed that America isn't as inclined to having pure raw emotion in its cartoons like Japan is. And that saddens me so. D:

So yes. 4kids murders whatever it touches. xD

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