#Sonic Mania Adventures

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Sonic Mania: Knuckles

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i love that knuckles' imagination is being consistently depicted like this lol. did i miss any?

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What's the best sonic cartoon Series:

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog

Satam

Sonic Underground

Sonic X

Sonic Boom

Sonic Mania Adventures

Sonic Prime

Knuckles the series

Thanks anon! Polls for the Sonic fandom on just about anything. Share polls you like to get more data. Asks and submissions always open.

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Day 2: Sonic Mania Adventures!

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Little fellas!!

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Arriving at Eggman's Base, from 'Sonic Mania Adventures'. Support us on Patreon

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Sonic Literally Collects Rings Part 2

So recently Sonic X Shadow Generations the line where Tails and Classic Tails are talking about rings was changed. This has lead many people into thinking rings are not literal and merely a gameplay mechanic. This however, is not the case.

Now a possible reason for this line change is probably because it doesn't make sense for Tails to question where Sonic keeps his rings since he also collects and stores rings himself. This also doesn't negate any mention of rings in other instances. In my previous post I mentioned we see rings in Sonic Mania Adventures and Sonic Prime, but there is more examples.

In Sonic Frontiers in Big's Fishing Sections you can fish up an art ring. The Fish-o-pedia mentions they have aided Sonic before.

While possibly being canon or just soft canon, in The Murder of Sonic The Hedgehog Sonic mentions being out of rings from his previous adventure and needing to collect rings to get faster and be able to bust through the door. Keep a pin in this.

In Sonic Rivals 2 there characters such as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Rouge, Silver and Espio have in game dialogue about needing to collect rings for various reasons. Rouge and Knuckles need rings to fuel an emerald detector, while Silver and Espio need rings to power Silver's ESP powers. Keep a pin in this.

In Sonic Generations there is a mission involving Cream and collecting rings which is acknowledged in universe.

Also, in a previous post I mentioned in Sonic Twitter Takeover #5 - All Answers Eggman mentions having Shadow pay him in rings. After this Sonic mentions he can't go Super without rings. This is further backed up by the dialogue in Sonic Adventure 2's final boss fight where Sonic and Shadow are talking about needing rings to maintain their Super Forms.

In Shadow The Hedgehog Tails is at Circus Park which he says was built by rings Eggman has taken from around the world, and he askes Shadow to help him collect said rings. In addition during the Egg Dealer boss fight you can make Eggman drop rings which he acknowledges.

Finally in games like Sonic Heroes and Sonic 06 characters like Tails can drop Dummy Rings to trick others into thinking they dropped real rings to get them to touch said rings and take damage.

So back to the pins, so it seems like we have an answer to what rings are used for in universe. Sonic mentions he needs rings to get faster and fast enough to break down a door. This would mean while Sonic is really fast the higher speeds we see him run at is only possible due to the rings. Him also needing to get faster to break down a door would mean by default he needs to be well stronger. While not fully explain the inconsistencies of it, this would explain why Sonic in Sonic Prime is struggling in fights when we are used to him not struggling. Because he is out of rings which he acknowledges. This would explain why the Fish-O-Pedia mentions them aiding Sonic. But it also seems like rings make characters faster and stronger in general, this is because Silver need them to power up his esp powers. This would imply in general characters collect rings as a means to get faster, stronger, and fuel any special powers they have. Also, because they are needed to fuel Super Forms might imply they are connected to Chaos energy in some way. Separately they also seem to be used to power machines as well. Finally the usage of rings to buy objects is literal as confirmed by Tails and Eggman.

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Sonic Mania Adventures: Mighty

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An introductory guide to getting into Sonic the Hedgehog...

…if you're a grown-ass adult who is busy and doesn't want to play a bunch of video games but thinks the characters look sorta cool.

If you've ever been curious about Sonic as a series but haven't known where to start, I have some recommendations! I think Sonic is a cool and still somewhat unique thing because it takes cartoony characters (like a Mickey Mouse or Felix the Cat) and lets them jump around in cool action sequences through the lens of a shonen anime. It's colorful and usually pretty light-hearted, and I think the character designs are pretty iconic.

There's two handy places you can start without prior context, to see if it's something you'd be into...

Getting Started: If You Wanna Read Something

The IDW Sonic Comics

There were years of different Sonic comics back in the '90s and early 2000's, but the franchise got a complete reboot and fresh start with IDW Publishing in 2018. If you're looking for the most straight-forward way to get into this world of characters, I think this is a great start. You don't need any prior knowledge whatsoever to crack open issue 1 and get started. All you need to know is "Sonic and his friends protect the world by fighting against an evil scientist named Dr. Eggman, who they just recently defeated after he briefly took over the world."

I love these comics and I feel that the writers and artists who work on it have a really good sense for this series. Reading issues 1 through 12 will get you the first major story arc. If you like it so far, I highly suggest reading up through issue 32, when another major story arc concludes. After that, the world's your oyster! Unlike the tangled web of Marvel or DC comics, IDW Sonic has a very simple and linear reading order. You pretty much just read the issues in order, and occasionally there are spinoff stories that are optional to read.

Getting Started: If You Wanna Watch Something

Sonic Mania Adventures

Maybe comics aren't your thing and you want something even quicker. These are a series of animated shorts that are lovely. Conveniently, they've been compiled together by Sega into one little video right here.

It's a great intro to some of the main characters, and combines cartoon slapstick with some amazing action sequences.

There's also a nice little epilogue short.

Sonic CD's intro cutscene

If I had to pick a single 1-and-a-half minute clip to embody what I like about this series, it would be this very simple intro movie that plays before Sonic CD. Check it out!

Sonic Origins/Sonic Origins Plus Cutscenes

In 2022, Sega released a compilation of the classic Genesis games on modern consoles. In it, they added a few animated cutscenes. You can watch those cutscenes, plus the Sonic CD intro and the Sonic Mania Adventures episodes, all compiled into one handy Youtube video.

Taking The Next Step: If You Wanna Read Something

The Archie Sonic Comics

You might have heard that Sonic had a comic series published by Archie Comics from 1992 to 2016. This was a vast, overarching series that wrote an original story by weaving together ideas from the different Sonic cartoons and games. It went through several different writers, many different artists, and obviously spanned over multiple eras of pop culture.

It's pretty cool! The fact that it was so long-running, and the fact that Sega wasn't very strict with what the writers could do, led to a lot of buckwild lore, new characters, and plot developments. That said, it's also pretty bizarre, complicated, corny, and cringey at times. There is a stretch in the middle that is pretty infamous among fans.

You have a few options for jumping in.

Option A: You can start at the very beginning and read all of it. If you do this, it is going to be like a One Piece / Homestuck / etc. kind of undertaking, and you're going to be pushing through the good and the bad of huge genre and tone shifts. That's your call!

Option B: You can brush up on the main characters on a wiki and then start at Issue 160, when Ian Flynn (who now does a lot of work on IDW Sonic) became the lead writer. More specifically, you can jump in at the start of a new story arc by starting at Issue 175.

Option C: You can start at Issue 252, when there is a universe-altering event that essentially retcons all of the characters and plot threads from the previous writers and starts completely fresh. Easier to keep track of and you won't have to worry about all the previous plot and lore.

If you want something you can read in a single sitting, you should instead read Sonic: Mega Drive, a short-lived miniseries published by Archie that follows "Classic Sonic" characters (aka, the same vibe and art style of Sonic Origins, Sonic Mania Adventures, etc.) It's really great!

Taking The Next Step: If You Wanna Watch Something

Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA) aka "Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie" (1996)

This is, essentially, a 1-hour Sonic anime movie. You can watch it in Japanese or in English. I adore it. It makes up its own lore and continuity so you don't need to know anything before going in, besides generally knowing a one-sentence synopsis of who Sonic, Tails, and Dr. Robotnik are. It's action-packed, well-animated, and has great music. Enjoy! Sonic X If you're enjoying what you've seen so far, and you want something much, much longer...there's an official 78-episode anime adaptation of Sonic called Sonic X. It's an original story that loosely pulls together some ideas from a few of the games. It's mostly intended for a younger audience, but I hear if you watch it in the original uncut Japanese, it feels a little less "for kids."

Other Ways To Get Into Sonic

There's some great video essays on Youtube about the series!

Professional animator Dan Floyd did an in-depth video looking at the highs and lows of Sonic character animation in the games starting from Sonic 1 up through Sonic Forces.

Super Bunnyhop plays through the first level of a bunch of Sonic games to compare how the mechanics, physics, and level design feel throughout the games' history.

Liam Triforce has a great deep dive on the franchise's music.

You can play The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, a murder-mystery-party themed visual novel put out by Sega. It's nice and short, so you can finish it in an afternoon.

If you haven't seen them already, you can check out the live-action/animated hybrid films Sonic 1 and Sonic 2 featuring Ben Schwartz and Jim Carrey, they're pretty good. That Sonic Prime cartoon that's currently on Netflix is pretty good too.

This may sound strange, but honestly you might enjoy poring over the sprite sheets from the old games. In particular, I really like the sprite animations from the GBA games, like Sonic Advance and Sonic Battle.

Sega is pretty lax about allowing noncommercial fan games, so there's at least a hundred different Sonic fan games out there by hobbyist developers. Check out the Sonic Amateur Games Expo and the Sonic Fan Games HQ.

You can watch LPs or cutscene compilations of the games on Youtube! If you watch Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, and Sonic Heroes, you'll get a crash course on most of the characters.

And finally, of course...you can play the games if you want to! There's a number of them that are available on Steam, Switch, Xbox, and Playstation if you don't have access to older consoles.

There's a lot of different angles to come at Sonic as a franchise, and lots of different entry points. Have fun!

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Sonic eating chili dogs over the years.

I do love what started out as something made up for the American cartoons would eventually become canon in the actual games.