SonicJPNews archive blog: 2021

2021/09/14

5th Sonic Twitter Takeover (2021)!

News from 2021.09.14.
Archived on 2021.09.30.

*日本語訳はルセスさんのモーメントにて!
for Japanese translation, check out this Twitter Moment by @celeritas128! 
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2021/05/27

Roger Craig Smith returns to voice Sonic again!

News from 2021.05.26.
Archived on 2021.06.23.

Roger Craig Smith, Sonic's voice actor since Sonic Colors previously annouced that he has left his role. However this annoucement is no longer true, as Smith made an update: he is coming back, and even fixed his broken blue heart. Fans, the crew, even Ben and Ryan all rejoiced at the news.
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2021/05/12

Watch Youtuber Violin Samurai recreating the music of Studiopolis Zone, sound effects included!

News from 2021.05.12
Archived on 2021.06.13

Another collaboration with YouTuber, but this time with a musician!
Violinist-Samurai Okkun played Sonic music + SFX of stages. 
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2021/05/05

Sonic celebrates Children's Day

News from 2021.05.05
Archived on 2021.06.13

Today is Children's Day in Japan!
 Sonic celebrates it too.
And Chao too... but isn't it too big?!
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2021/04/01

Weekly Hedgehog, Sonic Team's April Fools 2021

News from 2021.04.01
Archived on 2021.06.13
Breaking News for April Fools!
*This is a parody of the Japanese news magazine Shūkan Bunshun. ----------------------------------------------------------
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2021/02/12

Sonic and friends celebrate Lunar New Year

News from 2021.02.12
Archived on 2021.05.09

Sonic Committee posted an image of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy celebrating Lunar New Year together! 
Lunar New Year isn't a custom in Japan, so this was a pleasant surprise.
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2021/01/29

Roger Craig Smith is leaving his role as Sonic

News from 2021.01.28
Archived on 2021.04.03

A shocking news for Sonic fans - Roger Craig Smith, who has been the English voice of Sonic for 10 years, is leaving the role.

Smith implied this in his previous tweet with an image of broken blue heart, which lead to many speculations among fans - and now, it's official.


His tweet was embraced with kind messages from collegues who have been working on Sonic with him over the past 10 years.

How you liked his take on Sonic or not, let's thank him for being the voice of our beloved Blue Blur for the longest time.

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2021/01/24

"Mr. Needlemouse" never existed?! Yuji Naka confused with Sonic's rumored code name

News from 2021.01.24 
Archived on 2021.01.24

Do you know the name "Mr. Needlemouse"?

"It's the code name of the blue hedgehog before he was named Sonic, right?" - You'd say.

Well today, this long-believed fact about Sonic's development code name was claimed to be wrong by creator of the Blue Blur - Yuji Naka-san!



The truth was unveiled today as Naka-san took the SEGA TEST, a special test which SEGA of Japan prepared as a part of SEGA 60th anniversary events for SEGA fans to test their knowledge about SEGA. Three tests were held in two days. 

Here, Naka-san stumbled upon one of the questions which asked about Sonic the Hedgehog's code name. 

Answer options were:
A. Mr. Needlemouse
B. Mr. Speedymouse
C. Mr. Rocketmouse
D. Mr. Bluemouse

And Naka-san... didn't know any of these!
 
"I regret the result of the last test so I tried it again, but this time I knew even less answers. I didn't get the question asking 'Sonic is the signature character of SEGA. Choose the name he had before he went public'. Even though I'm one of the creators."
- Naka Yuji

In response to his confusion, Yosuke Okunari-san, a Creative Producer at SEGA and one of the professors (i.e. SEGA employees) of SEGA TEST SEMINARS released beforehand, replied as follows:

"This refers to the English translation of "Mr. Harinezumi" which Ohsima-san wrote on his sketch by Americans, so to Japanese, and even to Sonic's creator himself, "Mr. Needlemous" causes so many questions, right? (laugh)"
- Yosuke Okunari

So as he states, the expression "Mr. Needlemouse" was never used by Japanese creators, but it is a result of mistranslation of the Japanese word for 'hedgehog' by English speakers.

Naka-san's reaction to this explanation:
"What, that doesn't make sense. Doesn't "Mr. Harinezumi" translate to "Mr. Hedgehog"? I wonder who started saying "Mr. Needlemouse"."
- Naka Yuji

Okunari-san further explains this misunderstanding by referring to a page from SonicRetro. 

"I think the source might be the image a North-American fan site picked from some magazine or video or something."

- Yosuke Okunari


Naka-san's response:

"If this is what fans are saying, isn't it strange that the question asks about the name before [Sonic] was made public, isnt' it? Well I guess they translated "Hari" and "Nezumi" separately, but seeing the word "Mr. Needlemouse" which was never used feels strange. I got the question correct anyway though."
- Naka Yuji

. . . . . 
To explain what happened more clearly, basically the word for hedgehog in Japanese is written like this:
ハリネズミ (harinezumi) = hedgehog

However, you could see this as a compound of two separate words, each with individual meaning:
ハリ (hari) = needle
ネズミ (nezumi) = mouse

It's likely that the person who spread the nickname Mr. Needlemouse picked these two words separately for literal translation (for whatever reason) instead of just taking the whole word meaning hedgehog.
. . . . .

...So yeah. After all these (30!) years, Naka-san finally got to know one of the standard knowledge of Sonic fans, just to deny its factfulness. Oh well.

I didn't know about it either, and for all this long I thought they were using a pun for Sonic's code name to give it a twist... but no, it was just one of those mistranslations agian. My life was a lie.

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2021/01/22

Tomoya Ohtani-san's new lo-fi HipHop song series feat. Uno Yuji-san's art!

News from 2021.01.22 
Archived on 2021.01.24 

Tomoya Ohtani-san started out his own YouTube channel with new music: lo-fi hip hop series "Chillmo Club"!

The girl called Chillmo enjoys the music in her colorful room. Art & animation by Yui Karasuno-san/Yuji Uno-san, who draws monthly SonicPict series!

 

Ohtani-san further tweeted that his first lo-fi HipHop song might be Aquatic Mine from Sonic Adventure 2 (2001), but recently as he has been listening to BGM-like lo-fi HipHop on music streaming services, he started wanting to compose them on his own.

He has been preparing with additional devices and plugins for this purpose, and was finally able to release his work. He made a YouTube channel for this so please give him a subscribe!
He hopes that the video fits as BGM for your days at home well. "Nothing much happens in the video, but just watching Chillmo (the girl's name) makes you chill as well. More works may be uploaded occasionally, and if enough songs are available I'd like to think about how to develop the series further."

If this becomes popular, more music might come! Subscribe to his channel, chill with Chillmo and stay tuned!

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Artworks of UhSuLah - the ghost trio from Sonic Unleashed by MARZA!

News from 2021.01.22 
Archived on 2021.01.25 

Did you know that MARZA ANIMATION PLANET, former Virtual Entertainment Lab (VE Lab) of SEGA which created many outstanding visual works for Sonic series (such as opening movie, cutscenes and Night of the Werehog of Sonic Unleashed etc.) still continues to produce artworks of their corporate characters including Uh, Su and Lah - the ghost trio from Sonic Unleashed? 
And they do it almost on daily basis!
Check out the artworks by several artists with various art styles on their Twitter account!

Or simply search for hashtag UhSuLah. I promise you, they are all cute and beautiful and wholesome.

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2021/01/20

News from 2021.01.20 
Archived on 2021.01.24 

2021 is the year of 30th anniversary for Sonic, and Sonic Channel is taking a step towards celebration - look, the Monthly Character Calendar is now drawn in two characters in duo, plus we get a mini story and background information every time! 
Short yet rich character interaction - that's exactly what we wished for a long time. We gotta enjoy this!

The calendar for February 2021 features Sonic and Knuckles!



Windii translated the story part for this one too! Check it out! Kanemaru-san also responded to the calendar!

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2021/01/14

Sonic in Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 - with new voice clips & art!

News from 2021.01.14 
Archived on 2021.01.26 

Sonic is now in Puyo Puyo Tetris 2!

With a free update adding new characters and game modes, the blue blur has joined the collab puzzle game with new artworks, animation and voice clips!

Sonic, like other characters, has two versions of voices - one with his standard tone, one with lower tone. Both Japanese versoin (CV: Junichi Kanemaru) and English version (CV: Roger Craig Smith) are available!


Kanemaru-san tweeted about the update as well, telling everyone to play it!
And he was grateful for the joy over his voice as Sonic spread by Sonic fans on Twitter.


A trivia from Hoshino-san on new artwork: 

This is really cool! 

Nakamura-san also recommended the game.


Go get the game now and enjoy the game with Sonic!
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2021/01/13

Aaron Webber in Tokyo, ready for his work at SEGA of Japan!

News from 2021.01.13 
Archived on 2021.01.26 

Aaron Webber is now in Tokyo for his work at SEGA of Japan!
He will now be the Director of Strategy, Studio & Community Relations there to work not only on Sonic but several SEGA IPs.

And greetings from Hoshino-san. :)

Wishing him all the good luck & best for the future!
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