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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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2021/05/12

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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2021/02/12

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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2021/01/22

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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2020/12/23

Sonic Channel's wallpaper and calender for Jan 2021 comes with a short story

News from 2020.12.22 
Archived on 2021.01.23
 

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 January 2021 features Sonic and Tails!



If you want to read the translation of the story part, Windii did great job with it! Check it out! 


Tweets collected by: Tabiki
Texts by: Knuttunk

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2020/12/18

Sonic Channel’s character page got an update with new design and some new art

News from 2020.12.18 
Archived on 2021.01.24 


Sonic Channel’s character page got an update!
The characters are better visible with the new page design & some of them received new art!
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Check out these Sonic Adventure 2 demo tracks! What does Jun Senoue think about them?

News from 2020.12.17 
Archived on 2021.01.24


For reaching set charity goals in ExtraLife4Kids charity stream by SEGA of America last month, Jun Senoue released some of his demo tracks for SA2! He revived them extra from his tapes.


1. Metal Harbor demo ver.

2. Radical Highway demo ver.

3. Mission Street demo ver.

4. City Escape demo ver.

Tweet Collection by Tabiki
Text by Knuttunk


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2020/11/25

New acoustic compilation has been released for streaming!

News from 2020.11.25. 
Archived on 2021.01.24
 

Through the second last livestream of Sonic Station LIVE!, we got information about another mini compilation album with acoustic music of  Sonic!
Sometimes, you gotta stob by and listen to the soothing music before carrying on your adventure...

My personal favorite of acoustic Sonic songs other than those listed in this compilation album is from Sonic and the Black Knight - the acoustic version of the main theme. The calm minor tune of violin reminds me of a calm night at Titanic Plain...

Tweet collection by Tabiki
Text by Knuttunk
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2020/11/15

Early concept art of Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Heroes

News from 2020.11.15. 
Archived on 2021.01.24
 
This year again, Sonic Team of the US took part to the ExtraLife4Kids livestream event and promised some special contents for reaching set goals.

Roger Craig Smith was among many guests who joined the stream, and just in time, Aaron Webber's name suddenly popped up with the ring SFX, informing about the donation he made. How cool!

And so we reached the donation goals all together, getting early concept art of Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Heroes! 


Tweet collection by Tabiki
Text by Knuttunk
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2020/11/08

Get a look at the backstage of SEGA 60th ANNIVERSARY LIVE

News from 2020.11.08 
Archived on 2021.01.24
 
SEGA 60th anniversary LIVE concert took place on December 19th with online tickets! Were you able to watch it live?

The performers were glad to have a rare occasion to meet and enjoy the time together with their collegues in this COVID-19 crisis. Here are some of the tweets from backstage! 


Tweets collected by: Tabiki
Texts by: Knuttunk
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2020/09/10

Tokyo Joypolis Halloween event in collaboration with Sonic Colors

News from 2020.09.10. 
Archived on 2021.01.23

Tokyo Joypolis will collaborate with Sonic Colors for its Halloween event with special menu and stickers!
Look at these adorable new artworks of Wisps!



Tweets collected by: Tabiki
Texts by: Knuttunk
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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!


Tweets collected by: Tabiki
Texts by: Knuttunk
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