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2019/05/27

Sonic Birthday event will take place at Tokyo Joypolis! Kanemaru-san wants to join too!

News from 2019.05.27
Archived on 2019.05.27

Announcement from Tokyo Joypolis! They are going to have Sonic Birthday Party this year too!



It looks like it's currently only the Sonic greetings that's going to take place. There won't be any stage event. I guess Iizuka-san's schedule didn't fit this time? Last year he came all the way from LA just to attend thie event!

I wish they would have planned TSR competition or something similar, it's be a great opportunity for that! Or live music event with Senoue-san and his 'Sonic Adventure Music Expenditure'! Would be a blast.

Kanemaru-san saw the news too and commented as follows!

That would be so cool! SEGA of Japan, please think about it!


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2019/04/01

April Fool's Day and announcement of new era-name Reiwa in Japan

News from 2019.04.01
Archived on 2019.04.19

It's April Fool's Day!
People in Japan are enjoying this day as an event, including people related to Sonic development.
Also, every year, more and more companies are joining the bandwagon of releasing fake game news and announcements - including SEGA, of course.

However, this year in Japan, April 1st was also the day on which the new era name was announced by the government due to the abdication of current Tennoh (Japanese emperor). The last time a Tennoh abdicated while he was alive was in the year 1817, so this event gathered attention of whole Japan. In order to avoid confusion and unnecessary information to fly around while the announcement happens, many companies decided not to do an April Fool's event on this day.

Instead, they joined the meme which spread immediately after the new era-name announcement, which you see below:

New era-name of Japan was announced to be 令和 Reiwa - and its announcement style immediately became a hot topic and meme


"The new era-name is 'Reiwa'!"
- SEGA Official
"The new era-name is 'Ray-wa'!" (wa = ring in Japanese)
- Sonic Committee
"The scrapped idea of the image that goes with 'Ray-wa'."
- Sonic Committee

"It's also good that it's easy to write. Happy Reiwa." - Junichi Kanemaru

But of course, there were people who commented on April Fool's Day related events on this day...


Naka-san on Christmas NiGHTS on April Fool's Day





Kanemaru-san and April Fool's Day
"Huh? Is something wrong?"
- Junichi Kanemaru

Wow this is unusual?! SEGA Official

Oh yeah, and SEGA of America enjoyed the April Fool's as usual...



Everybody seems to be having fun with April Fool's!
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