SonicJPNews archive blog: Mystery of Sonic Statue in the mountains of Mie solved!

2019/04/13

Mystery of Sonic Statue in the mountains of Mie solved!

News from 2019.04.12
Archived on 2019.04.22

Big news! The mystery of the Sonic Statue in the mountains of Mie is finally solved!



Here is the article on J-Town Net which summarized the whole story:

三重の山奥にある「謎のソニック像」 設置主の遺族が、すべての真相を語った 
https://j-town.net/tokyo/news/localnews/277903.html?p=all


I summarized the article in a few tweets as follows, but I might also do a complete translation of it later.

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Thank you to Badnik Mechanic who initiated the action on the Mysterious Sonic Statue, to the writers of Den-Fami Nico Gamer and J Town Net who sought and found the backstory, and the Sonic community which was united to seek the truth about this mystery.

Rest in peace, Kodera-san. I wish you were still here to see us gathering to your Sonic, but I guess we keep that for our afterlife.
For now, I hope that the statue will get restored so that it's stable and clean again, and gets some coating to fight the humidity in the area - and then placed back to current spot in honor of Kodera-san.
We Sonic fans can then visit him from time to time.


Naka-san read the news too and is happy about it.
"So the Sonic in Mie was placed as a sign for the villa of the owner of SEGA World in Kadoma, Osaka. Having Sonic as a sign for own cottage is cool and I'm jealous.
Thank you for the research. I feel good to have the mystery solved."
- Yuji Naka


Here is the video by Badnik Mechanic which was a starting point for the investigation movement:



And here is the location of the statue in Google Map. If you are a Sonic fan visiting Mie prefecture of Japan and are eager to see a place that's not on a normal travel guide, this might be a place to go!
I'd like to see the statue with my own eyes too someday...



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