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2020/08/24

Takenobu Mitsuyoshi's no guest dinner show

News from 2020.08.23. 
Archived on 2021.01.23
 

Takenobu Mitsuyoshi-san, "the voice of SEGA", held a no-guest dinner show for SEGA employees!
It was originally planned as a real show at Ginza, but due to COVID-19 crisis, it was held as an online event.
You don't work at SEGA? Don't worry, get a ticket and watch the livestream together!
And even when you didn't get a ticket, SEGA Official left a lively tweets of the event which you can follow!


The show is about to start... and SEGA employees are excited! 
There are official merch too!


 The show started!


Ohtani-san was watching the show from home, but his son changed the TV program to something else... Ohtani-san regrets not educating him enough about Mitsuyoshi-san beforehand. :D


Hoshino-san was also listening!  


SEGA Official and Okunari-san are excited about the show being on Japan's Yahoo News! Over 4000 live watches, that's incredible! 


The show's set list! 


To numerous requests, SEGA released an archive version of the show! Enjoy!


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Sega Akihabara Building 2 closed on 30 Aug

News from 2020.08.24 
Archived on 2021.01.23
 

SEGA Arcade Center Akihabara Building 2 closed on August 24th. Its iconic appearance with an escalator was one of the icons of this Japanese town filled with electronics and subcultures.

But! Fear not, SEGA has three more arcade centers in Akihabara, just within the radius of ca. 150 meters. That's Japan.


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2020/08/23

Nanoblock of Sonic, Tails and Eggman!

News from 2020.06.18 
Archived on 2020.08.22

 New merch! Celebrate the 29th anniversary of Sonic with these brand new Nanoblock Sonic, Tails and Dr. Eggman!

Watch this how-to video for building Nanoblock Sonic by Inoue-san, new assistant staff of Sonic Station LIVE!


 

Also, search on Twitter with this hashtag #ソニックをつくってみた for more pictures of Nanoblock Sonic series by the official account & fans!


Don't forget to check out the info on Sonic Channel as well if you want one too!



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2020/08/22

Watch Taishi Nakagawa-san, the Japanese voice of Movie Sonic, makes Sonic character bento

News from 2020.06.18 
Archived on 2020. 08.22

Wanna try making bento in Movie Sonic style?
Here, watch this how-to by Taishi Nakagawa-san, the Japanese voice of Movie Sonic!

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2020/08/20

Sonic the Movie in Japan, Digital Release on September 2, and Blu-ray™, DVD and 4K Ultra HD™ on October 21

News from 2020.08.20
Archived on 2020. 11.25


Sonic the Movie is seeing its success in its country of origin Japan too, and it will be released for stay-home-cinema there in two months!


Naka-san and Ohtani-san are excited about the news too! 

"It looks like it will be released in Japan too. I already bought the oveaseas version, what should I do? I guess it's best to buy it for commemoration?" 

- Yujia Naka

"I'm going to get it!" 

- Tomoya Ohtani



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2020/08/10

The Sonic statue in Mie gets repainted!

News from 2020.08.10 
Archived on 2020.11.25
 

In my previous article from April 12th 2019, we took a look into the truth about the mysterious Sonic Statue standing in Mie prefecture, Japan.


Sonic fans were glad to see its mistery finally uncoverrd, but many of u were also concerned about its worn-out status after it being left in moist air of montain region.

Now, there is an advancement in the situation - the statue got repainted!

The initial clues came from few Japanese Twitter users who found the statue in repainting process and posted photos:


It was such a nice surprise! Sonic fans noticed this quickly and shared the information among them. 

This drew attention of the local news journal of Mie prefecture, which conducted an interview with the family of Kodera-san, the late owner of the statue, about how it has come to the repainting.

So it was the power of us Sonic fans who impressed the family of Kodera-san and resulted in protecting the statue. We should be thankful for the Kodera family for taking action. 


Creators of Sonic, Naka-san and Hoshino-san reacted to this news too: 


And SEGA Forever too: 



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2020/07/28

Let your figma enjoy SEGA's famous titles with figmaPLUS SEGA Consoles!

News from 2020.07.28
Archived on 2020.08.22


Here's another interesting item for SEGA 60th anniversary: the figmaPLUS SEGA Consoles! The set includes figma-sized Master System, Mega Drive (Genesis), Game Gear, Saturn, Dreamcast, their respective game cartridges and more!
Preorder starts from 28th July 2020 (Tue) from 12:00JST to 24th September 2020 (Thu) at 12:00JST.


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2020/07/24

Sonic the Movie sequel coming out on April 8th 2022!

News from 2020.07. 24
Archived on 2020.11.25 


Great news for fans of Sonic the Movie - due to its great success, it will hae a sequel coming in 2022!
The screen date has already been announced by the officials. Let's look 
And let's hope Crush40 will take part to it too!



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Balan Wonderworld - brought to you by Naka-san and Oshima-san!

News from 2020.07.23 
Archived on 2020.08.22

BIG NEWS!
After 20+ years, two of the initial creators of Sonic, Naka-san and Ohshima-san, are working together to create a brand new game!

Its name is - BALAN WONDERWORLD!

A musical-based action-platformer with 80+ different costumes with various abilities to explore the dreamy world of 12 troubled characters - and bring back balance to the world!

The world and character designs reminds us of NiGHTS!
Some essence of Sonic can also be found... check out the first trailer and the interview with the duo!

2020/06/28

Three interviews of Taishi Nakagawa-san, the Japanese voice of Movie Sonic

News from 2020.06.28. 
Archived on 2021.01.23. 


Taishi Nakagawa-san, the voice of Sonic in "Sonic the Movie", told in various interviews about his passion and sincere stance towards giving voice to Sonic - not as a "guest for learning how to do voice acting", but as a challenger to give everything he could to keep the movie at its quality and without dishonoring other voice actors. 

He also talked about Soinc's charms and promoted the movie as "a movie for every generation, wether or not you are the game's fan".


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