The only animated Sonic where we see him jumping from spring, avoiding holes with spikes, defeating robot wasps all in order to get to boss fight. After defeating boss, the boss destroys stage and Sonic needs to run away. This is Sonic!
If Classic Sonic ever gets a voice, it's the guy from this anime who needs to voice him. Jaleel did a magnificent job as Sonic, but within a vacuum, he sounds about as little like a seventeen(Later sixteen) year old kid as humanly possible while Burke was able to capture that vibe perfectly largely thanks to the things that people don't like about his performance such as him being too high pitched and whiny. It's something that only he and, IMO, Jason Griffith managed to get right about Sonic. He's a TEENAGER, not a young adult.
I really wish we could have seen more of the OVA, it just culminates everything I love from every iteration of Sonic into this beautiful hodgepodge that pushes all of my buttons in just the right way. Unfortunately, any continuation most likely will never happen. ...on the bright side, the composer is still doing work for a Japanese indie movie. And I must say, it sounds pretty good.
The character design in this movie is spot on. I love the look and voice of each character. Tails was perfect, Knuckles and his hat are perfect. I would say that Sonic would be perfect if he looked more like Toei Sonic, but I think his voice in this is spot on. Some people say he sounds weird but I think he sounds unique and only Sonic could sound like that.
I didn't notice the lack of detailed shading and highlights in the OVA until you mentioned it but I did notice that they did the same thing in Sonic Mania Adventures, where in a lot of scenes characters have no shading or highlights whatsoever. Especially when they move. Except Metal Sonic because he needed the metallic look.
This ova is the perfect sonic adaptation, it's a sonic movie that actually focuses on sonic, well yeah maybe there were some unnecessary characters, but they don't appear that much so who cares.
I personaly love this movie, it's not stupid for me, but great, such a great Classic Sonic movie, even has Metal Sonic, which's been ignored a lot, Classic Sonic's voice is great in my opinion, not the others, but him, It could be better, but stills good. I would rate 9/10
I truly love this movie, I watched it a lot in middle school and I still do, I'm going to be a senior at high school this year. I have the movie saved to a flash drive on a keychain I keep with me always. If I get bored I just whip it out (excuse the joke -_-) and plug it into my computa and start watching!
So the local Blockbuster Video store in my hometown had this on VHS, and I was just getting into the Sonic games for the Game Cube at the time. I rented the hell out of that tape growing up until 2008, when they were selling all of their VHS tapes to make room for DVDs. That was when I got my mom to buy the tape for me for $7.45 (hey, I was 11 years old at the time). I still have the tape today, and I still love it, even though I now see how it's not exactly perfect. By the way, the Blockbuster Video store in my town didn't close its doors until November 2015, when I had been meaning to go back and rent some stuff. I ended up leaving the store with tons of DVDs two weeks before they closed. It is now [cough cough] an Appliance Direct.
I love the ova movie as well and I like metal sonic redemption And this is really good he grows his character and that comes in a Anti hero full hero saves the president and old owl But hey it’s 54 minutes close to an hour more longer than two episodes that’s good that counts as a movie just like the original AlitaOVA movie
Not going to lie, I actually grew to tune the "Annoying" parts of Sara out after seeing her nightmare fuel vision of being married to Robotnik & they had a ton of babies. Don't believe me? Find a way - Or pull out the DVD if you've got it - and watch it again.
I've by searching for technical analysis like this! It's a shame there isn't much info on the development of these ovas or the english adaption process.
Love this video and I am in love with the classic design for the characters. I’m sure my opinion isn’t very unpopular… But I wish they kept up with this version of the character. I wish sonic OVA got to continue into a series and maybe even more games. There’s something I love about the classic look at these characters. Like when you started talking about how they are colored/ designed at 11:27 I found myself shouting yes!! out loud at this video because I think the classic design for the characters are cute yet fitting and it’s hard to put my finger on it… But something about the classic designs works so well for me it’s why i love sonic mania
Yeah imagine the current voice actor of Sonic saying shut up tails on the for kids voice of Sonic saying shut up Tails it won't sound so wrong and so out of character
Actually Robotropolis isn't The Ancient Relics, Robotropolis is placed beside The Ancient Relics, also The Land of Darkness being in a different dimension was only said in the dub, the sub said they were two separate layers
This OVA was really interesting and I wish it could've continue with sequels, but personally I kind of think Sonic screaming "shut up Tails" was a little out of character for him.
