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Sonic X vs the fans?




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britannicamoore



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:30 am Reply with quote
I was browsing youtube, and came across many videos proclaiming the love/hate for different english voice actors on the show. Jason Griffith/ David Humphrey & Jason Griffith/Ryan Drummond. But no one really explained why there was a huge fuss.

Why are the fans of Sonic X so angry? Is this a video games versus the anime series type thing or something else?

I think I may or many not be late to this party but there are new videos posted now.
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Unit 03.5-ish



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:10 pm Reply with quote
Short answer: if I ain't mistaken, this is a show licensed by 4Kids, yeah? There ya go.

Longer answer: I honestly don't know, myself. It might BE precisely because of the dreaded 4Kids butcher knife. Or maybe it's some of the resentment from the fact that Sonic hasn't had a good game since Sega became a third party developer. Fans are weird, and they express their angst, disgust, and nerdiness in the most unusual ways, sometimes. I don't get the anger, though -- this is an anime based on a children's video game, not some high-concept thinky anime. They should STFU and stop acting like it's the end of the world because they don't like the way the English VAs sound.
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GaryPotter



Joined: 10 Jul 2008
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:11 am Reply with quote
Britannica, don't even try to understand any of that. It's not worth your time.

To put it simply, the Sonic The Hedgehog fanbase is the most fucked up fanbase I have ever seen. Just the pure obsession so many people have with every single little detail of the Sonic world is just bizarre. They'll argue to their dying breath that they are right and the others are wrong, and damn anyone who says otherwise.

The Sonic voice actors thing is just an extension of that. Alot of fans were upset when Sega decided to replace the game VAs with the anime VAs, and they've never forgiven them for doing that. Add on to the fact that every game Sonic has been in has been terrible for the last five or so years, and you have a fanbase that is in a state of almost constant rage.

Just ignore them. Any attempt to understand them will only end in tears, believe me.
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abynormal



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 3:24 pm Reply with quote
The Sonic games ended for me after Sonic & Knuckles, and the SatAM series is still the definitive Sonic animation in my eyes. I agree with the above poster that the Sonic fanbase is quite strange, and you're better off sticking with what you like and don't like and not worry about what others think.
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