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2020/06/23

Sonic the Hedgehog DJ Style "PARTY": listen together & celebrate together-event!

News from 2020.06.16-22
Archived on 2020.06.22

It's time for PARTY! Let's celebrate into Sonic's birthday together with the new DJ mix!

A new album by Tomoya Ohtani-san: Sonic the Hedgehog DJ Style "PARTY" was released on June 16!
"Congratulations to the release of Sonic music only non-stop DJ mix album 'Sonic The Hedgehog DJ Style "PARTY" today! Subscriptions are available too! I want you all to listen to it!"
- Tomoya Ohtani

"Here is the summary of streaming sites links. Have a listen if you find your standard service! I, for example, play the CD at home and use Apple Music on smartphine."
- Tomoya Ohtani


Celebrate into Sonic's birthday together!

To celebrate the release & Sonic's birthday, Ohtani-san planned a special event for June 22th!


Behind-the-scenes story - and the day of the event!



"On the day I released the song list, I thought, since it's a DJ MIX album, I would like to hold an event on which everyone start playing the album at the same time and use a tag to comment their thoughts while I post background information to the songs. The next day I consulted the marketing people and we agreed on one beat! Such a speed."
- Tomoya Ohtani

"So, from 22:59, I'd like to play the album 'Sonic the Hedgehog DJ Style "PARTY" ' with you together and enjoy the hour before [Sonic's] birthday with the DJ MIX. No matter a CD, on streaming service or your data, just start playing at the same time!"
- Tomoya Ohtani

"I'd be glad if you use these hashtags, but they are long so it's also fine if you just use one of them!"
- Tomoya Ohtani









The event has started!


★SEGA Official's summary of the Tweets by Ohtani-san and fans who participated to the event can be read here on this Togetter thread! ★


01. Opening: Going My Way (Remix)


02. Stardust Speedway "B" mix




03. Aquarium Park - Act 2


04. Dreams Of An Absolution (Starry Night Remix)




05. White Acropolis -Snowy Peak-




06. The Ark




07. Battle with Infinite - First Bout

07. Battle with Infinite - First Bout
このあたりの流れ個人的にもかなり気にっています。前の曲の最後の方を短くループさせておきながら、次の曲へクロスフェードです。記憶に新しい『ソニックフォース』インフィニット戦の曲です。テンポ的にも前の曲と同じだったのと（続 #SonicDJParty

— 大谷 智哉 Tomoya Ohtani (@Ohtanitter) June 22, 2020


08. Palmtree Panic "B" mix


09. Prime Time - Studiopolis Zone Act 2


10. Theme of Rocky Ridge


11. Blizzard Peaks - J.S. Rock Mix


12. Metallic Madness Zone Act 2



13. Reactive Factory: Work It Out


14. Fading World - Imperial Tower




15. Sky Babylon - Act 1




16. Theme of Metropolis Speedway


17. Regal Ruin: Back In Time




18. Planet Wisp - Act 1


19. Metropolitan Highway





20. Eggman's Facility [Rhythm and Balance Remix]



21. Skyscraper Scamper - Day



22. Asteroid Coaster - Act 2


23. Rooftop Run: Act 1



24. Moonlight Battlefield - Aqua Road





/>25. Sky Road: Lap Music




26. Dragon Road - Day




27. Cool Edge - Day


28. Ice Mountain: Lap Music


29. Wave Ocean -The Inlet-

29. Wave Ocean -The Inlet-
インサートしたエフェクトのノリがよかったがために、全体にフランジャーかけっぱなしにしてしまいました（自由）。この曲と次の曲で使ってるリズムのサンプルは同じなのですが、音色警察の方から指摘が入ったりするんですよ、使い回しだー！とw #SonicDJParty

— 大谷 智哉 Tomoya Ohtani (@Ohtanitter) June 22, 2020




30. A New Venture (Surfin' S.R.A Remix)



31. Tropical Resort: Act 2



32. Beyond The Speed Of…


33. Reach For The Stars - Short ver.






The album is completed!


なんかあっと言う間でしたね！参加して頂いたみなさまお疲れ様でした！参加出来なかった方も、明日モーメントでまとめてくれるようなので、後日音源と合わせてチェックしてもらえると、今日の再現が体感？できるかなと思います！ #ソニックバースデー2020カウントダウン #SonicDJParty

— 大谷 智哉 Tomoya Ohtani (@Ohtanitter) June 22, 2020




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2019/09/17

Naka-san's birthday!

News from 2019.09.17
Archived on 2020.02.16

It was Yuji Naka-san's birthday on the September 17th!
His resolution and the birthday cake made by his children. So wholesome!





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2019/07/04

Aaron Webber's birthday!

News from 2019.07.03
Archived on 2019.07.22

It was Aaron's birthday on July 3rd! Katie from the SoA Sonic team posted a photo to celebrate it and Aaron replied on the following day, reporting that he's been enjoying Japan for the past week, as seen in his photo from Nara deer park and the tweet by Senoue-san few days ago with a photo of him and Aaron at Tokyo Joypolis!

Happy birthday to the talented and kindhearted US social media manager of Sonic the Hedgehog! Enjoy Japan, Aaron!




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2019/06/23

Amazing Sonic beach art made by JBen!

News from 2019.06.23
Archived on 2019.07.14

A Sonic fan and beach artist Jehan-Benjamin Tarain made a Sonic beach art to celebrate the blue hedgehog's 29th anniversary!

As Yuji Naka-san found about about it, he was amazed by its quality. Here is a thread!


"This Sonic beach art is amazing. From the pictures it seems like the art is actually being drawn on real ground, but I'd like to watch a timelapse video of the process. And have a look at it with my own eyes."
- Yuji Naka


The artist then noticed Naka-san's mention and they had a little conversation!




It's always cool that the creator of something you love notice and appreciate your fanart. Great work, JBen!

Visit his webpage and YouTube channel for more cool works he's done!
http://www.jbenart.com/en/home/


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Sonic Birthday 2019 recap!

News from 2019.06.23
Archived on 2019.06.24

Sonic Birthday 2019 at Tokyo Joypolis!


The birthday event for celebrating anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog was held at Tokyo Joypolis again this year! Here is the recap of the event.



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Happy Birthday Sonic! Birthday wishes from Sonic officials

News from 2019.06.23
Archived on 2019.06.24

Sonic officials' birthday wishes!


28 years ago from today, Sonic the Hedgehog was released in the US and sped through the gaming world like a fresh wind.

Today, not only the fans all around the world celebrated the birthday of our beloved Blue Blur, but messages from the people on the official side of Sonic development were seen on Twitter. Here is the summary!


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2019/06/22

2019-06-23: How to celebrate Sonic's birthday in Japan!

News from 2019.06.22
Archived on 2019.06.22

The birthday of our beloved blue hedgehog is right in front of you, and there are several unique events happening around June 23rd!
Here is a summary of how to celebrate Sonic's birthday 2019 in Japan.


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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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2019/03/27

Mazin-san celebrates birthday of various games of Mega Drive!

News from 2019.03.27
Archived on 2019.04.17

Mazin-san celebrates birthday of various games of Mega Drive!
"Mega Drive's Turbo OutRun, Cosmic Phantasy Stories, Pit Fighter, Thunder Pro Wresling, Shadow of the Beast, Storm Road, and Art ALIVE, happy birthday! Cheers!"

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Aoi Yuki-san's birthday! SEGA Official celebrates her with Shadow latte art!

News from 2019.03.27
Archived on 2019.04.17

Today is Aoi Yuki-san's birthday! Happy birthday!
+ she is also the voice of Sticks in Sonic Boom series.
And a huge fan of Sonic series. Especially Shadow is her favorite character!

SEGA Official is aware of it, so they gave her a present!

"Aoi Yuki-san, happy birthday!🎈🎂🎈
Please take care of yourself and have some coffee break. We wish the best for your continued success...☕️"


"Wow! Wow! Wow! Look at this!! Such an awesome latte art!!! Shadow, were you locked into a  coffee? That's adorable!! His fluffy chest hair is foam and so fluff!! Thank you SEGA-san!!"

Yuki-san seems to really enjoy the present, that makes me glad :D

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2019/03/20

Amy: Taeko Kawata-san's birthday!

News from 2019.03.20
Archived on 2019.03.23

Today, March 20th is the birthday of Taeko Kawata-san! Happy birthday!

Taeko Kawata-san:
"Being alive and having good health is
Truly fortunate thing.

Taking care of oneself means
To treasure people and to not make them sad
That is what I believe sincerely.

I am very happy to receive birthday messages.

Thank you(*´∀｀)♥"

May your new age be healthy and prosperous!

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2019/03/17

Summary of SXSW2019 Sonic Panel & related Tweets!

News from 2019.03.16-18
Archived on 2019.03.18

Gotta Go Fast: The Official Sonic The Hedgehog Panel happened in SXSW 2019 on March 16th in Austin and very cool & exciting pieces of information were presented by awesome panelists!


As announced in Official Sonic Twitter of the US as follows, the SXSW panel delivered some interesting news!

I will list here all the information revealed & tweets by the people from official side related to those topics!

Here is the video of livestream on Twitch for those who couldn't watch it live (like me) or those who want to feel that excitement all over again!

Gotta Go Fast: The Official Sonic The Hedgehog Panel — SXSW Gaming — Friday 15 - Sunday 17 March, Austin, TX von SXSWGaming auf www.twitch.tv ansehen

Panelists


From left to right:
  • Aaron Webber: Community Manager, SEGA of America. Our Sonic social media & meme guy!
  • Takashi Iizuka: Head of Sonic Team, SEGA of America. What's that cool T-shirt he's wearing? Oh and it's his birthday today!
  • Jasmin Hernandez: Unit Production Manager, SEGA of America. Cheerful as always! And cool Sonic wear & cute blue rose.
  • Jun Senoue: Sonic Team Composer, SEGA. First time to be at SXSW, he flew all the way from Tokyo to be here!
  • Austin Keys: Head of Product Development, SEGA of America. Also a humble master of languages. Respect!

Aaron and everybody don't like boring panel, so let's cheer when you see your favorite stuff!

Let's see...

Summary & New Stuff Revealed!

0) Tails Adventure 3 for SEGA Game Gear! Coming in April 2051!


Iizuka-san: "...no, that's not approved."
Oh that's sad. Aaron is still trying every year to convince Iizuka-san. :p

Anyway, this is the 4th year for Sonic to be at SXSW. What will we hear today?

So many people traveled from faraway places to be at the panel (including Senoue-san!). The number of attendants exceeded expectation, so that the SXSW staff had to prepare a second room for those who didn't fit in the first one. Wow!

1) Recap of year 2018 for Sonic: 

  • Sonic Mania and Sonic Mania Plus, and production of the physical copies - in which the team gave tremendous amount of work into. All of the hard work because they thought us fans deserved it well. Thank you team! Applause!
  • The animation series Sonic Mania Adventures on YouTube have over 55 million views in total. WOW!
  • Team Sonic Racing music by collaboration of Tee Lopes and Jun Senoue
  • SEGA shop went international: now in UK too!
  • Sonic and PUMA partnership: Sonic and Eggman shoes! Iizuka-san is wearing them today :D
  • New IDW Sonic comics launched!
  • Sonic Toaster! Crowdfunding reached twice the goal! Some of the audience got it too - somebody even wore a T-shirt with Sonic holding a piece of Sonic toast!
  • and much more happened... (like Sonic Forces)... but now talking about what's coming up:

2) Revealing another feature of Team Sonic Racing - Cart Customization

  • Team Sonic Racing is coming on May 21st
  • Developed by SUMO Digital
  • Race as a team with your friends or against them, both on- or offline
New gameplay & team racing mechanic
  • Wether you win or lose the race, you will get unique currency of the game which you can use for getting new car parts
  • Those parts can be used for customizing machines at garage for changing:
    • Car Performance
    • Horns
    • Paint (car color) - gold is a rare color.
      • also possible to take over color set of other characters' machines.
    • Vinyls (color changeable)
Aaron and Iizuka-san:
"So if I want to put Shadow in a hot pink car, can I do that?"
- "Yes, of course."
"And Big the Cat in a really edgy, black and red car? Can I do that?"
- "Yes, if you want to."

I can't wait to put Shadow in a hot pink & gold car.
Or change machine for Chao to a really edgy design and ace the race.




3) Another music for Team Sonic Racing:

Aaron: "Jun, tell us what it was like when they first approached you to do the music for TSR."
Senoue-san: "Just simplified: 'Yeees'."

For him, it's been almost 8 years since he was in charge of handling allover music for a Sonic game (last time was Sonic Generations), so he was very excited for this opportunity.

Since an important keyword of the game is "team", he wanted to integrate this theme into sound creation too; he contacted Johnny Gioelli, his team member of Crush 40, and told him that they can make new music and song for Sonic, which they have been waiting for.
Senoue-san also contacted Tee Lopes (with whom he worked together in Sonic Mania), Hyper Potions (Sonic Mania Plus trailer), and Taylor Smith from Dangerkids (Theme of Infinite from Sonic Forces) for further collaboration and chose courses for each of them to create the music for.

Senoue-san: "It's fun and stimulating to work with such young and talented musicians like them."

He also teamed up with in-house members like Tomoya Ohtani, and a new member in the team working on the music whose name was not yet revealed.

With these members he is teaming up, Senoue-san is making variety of music for different courses of the game, and the total amount of music is no less than other core Sonic games - that is exciting to hear!

(And a loud cheering for Sonic Unleashed, yes!)

TSR music also contain remix of older tracks, such as Sand Hill from Sonic Adventure. What was the process of sound development for the game?

As Senoue-san was told that the game will have 7 zones with 21 courses in total with everything Sonic themed, he thought he can't just miss the older tracks and decided to mix new sounds and existing sounds. He was also careful not to use them too excessively.
Sand Hill for example, composed by Kenichi Tokoi for a mini game in SA, was kind of the music he thought would be a good surprise for Sonic fans. And so he went on with the idea to arrange the music in an aggressive tune to fit the racing atmosphere.

Senoue-san: "Tee Lopes's arrangement was so great, and I did some arrangements on my end too, and recorded it with my band. It's one of my favorites."

And here, thanks to the motivated audience at the panel, comes the reveal of a new track for TSR!
A track from Sonic Heroes...and that is:


BINGO PARTY!


 We can hear screams of joy from the audience!

This is a team-up with TORIENA, a Japanese chip-tune artist. What a cool remix!
TORIENA's website: http://toriena.net/

She also tweeted about her contribution to the game on Twitter.

Excitement over the game music for Sonic never cease!

4) A new animation series: Team Sonic Racing Overdrive

The next announcement it also related to TSR, but they first mentioned Sonic Mania Adventures, the animation featuring the world of the world of Sonic Mania and Sonic Mania Plus.

...Animation? Did we hear animation?!

YES!! After the success of the short animations series with Classic Sonic, we are now getting another animation series, this time featuring Modern Sonic!!

Work by Tyson Hesse and Neko Production!! This is going to be nothing but amazing!!!
Team Sonic Racing Overdrive is the title, and they showed us some of the character setting boards of main characters!

Look at how beautifully they are designed! Tyson, you are the best. Seriously. Thank you for this.








According to Jasmin, this series won't have voices in them due to two reasons: 1) to make it understandable no matter what language you speak, and 2) budget and time (probably the main reason). So it is going to be a similar silent style to Sonic Mania Adventures.

But! If the company notices the serires' popularity, they might be able to get more budget to let the characters have their voices! Let's support the work by watching it repeatedly when it comes out! 

And cool, they also allowed us to take a look at a 15 sec sample ---

wait, what? Not just the sneak peek, but the WHOLE EPISODE 1?!!! That is crazy! 

The video was uploaded on that day on their YouTube channel too, and here it is! Are you ready for the show?

Enjoy it! And smash that replay button to show support!!



Part 2 or 2 is arriving towards end of April.


[Below here until the next topic, it's just me going crazy over how good this animation is - read at your own risk]


Oh wisps! Cute! And there they come, the racing gangs!
Looks great already from start. Such smooth animation of characters and car actions!

I love that versus scene, look how they grin to the other team! This is great, already confirmed.

Oh yeah. Big is on his own pace, like always. So many cool scenes of him.
"Froggy?!"

Sonic will never handle girls or adorable little Chao roughly. But he will make fun of Shadow by driving backwards in front of him. That's so Sonic and I love it.
Older brother-mode Sonic and...


Rival-mode Sonic!


Unlike Sonic, though, Shadow does revenge on Chao without a second thought. And does not really try to avoid hitting somebody (Big) with a car. Oh the ultimate lifeform.
Oh but look at those Chao. They are just enjoying another roller coaster feeling I guess.

Knuckles is such a good guy there, knocking a bomb away to avoid his teammate from being hit  even when he then gets bruises all over from not seeing where his cart is when falling... Well, he is tougher than leather.
Love this Sonic's expression. "A-Are you sure you're okay? Erm, thanks anyway."

Hmm, what is Eggman up to this time? Love those paper beards, can I have one too?


Yacker's help! Let's go, "Boost, on"! --Oh wait that's a different anime.
(Check out Cyber Formula if you don't know. Kanemaru-san is voicing the protagonist)


Oh I just love how they show each character's personality in seconds. Just like in SMA.

So many game elements, so many expressions, so many... Froggies. Who doesn't love this?

And that Amy with hovering exclamation mark above her head along with Chao is so adorable. She's got the choice of weapons now, uh oh.
And how we missed those Chao speaking SFX. Now I'll go check on Chao in SA games. Or when are we getting a Chao Garden app, pretty please?

And the mixture of 3DCG and 2D animation worked so well in this. Please make more of these!

(OK I could talk about more details but I have to stop now or we won't reach next topic)

Oh but honestly I had no idea the script distributed among the audience was going to be a real thing for 'Big the cat moment' in this episode. When I thought it was just another Big joke. So clever of them.

And there we have our happy Big with Froggie goods.


That leads to the next topic, namely...

5) Team Sonic Racing merchandise

THE FROGGIE-T IS REAL!
Look at this gorgeous Jasmin. That shirt is also available online now on SEGA shops!


"Froggie shirts are real." - Aaron Webber 2019

TSR Merchs on SEGA shop include:
  • Froggie T-shit
  • TSR Logo Pin
  • Sonic and Shadow T-shirt - the one Iizuka-san is wearing!
  • Barrel of Doom Mug (for real!) - Tyson Hesse's idea realized by Hoshino-san!
Get yours now!
US Shop: https://shop.sega.com/collections/team-sonic-racing
UK Shop: https://segashop.co.uk/


6) IDW comic

Issue 16 cover is there! Wow, that's  all-star!

Iizuka-san on making new Sonic comic series with IDW:
  • It's a fun and fresh new experience
  • Tangle and Whisper represent fun new heroes in the world; they both have special quality and skill, in same way Rough and Tumble, the new enemies Sonic and his friends face to.
  • New enemies approaching... read the comics to find out!

7) Sonic Boom series DVD

Sonic's spin-off TV series Sonic Boom is obtainable as DVD! A nice gift for kids and grandkids!

Season 2 DVD comes out in June, including a bonus episode related to TSR!

And yes, of course Aaron knows about the bingo cards, and unfortunately no 'No Boom news'! Sorry!

8) Team Sonic Racing Soundtrack

TSR's soundtrack, named 'MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE' is heading towards us!
  • 3 discs
  • 130 tracks
  • Release on May 29th, also in digital platforms from the day 1

9) Sonic Mania remix track: Knuckles' Theme Special Remix 

In addition to this info, we got to listen to another Sonic Mania remix track! They literary just made it done for this event - finished on Wednesday, so three days ago!

The original theme is from Sonic & Knuckles, Yes, it's about that red and spiky, sometimes angry, echidna!

Knock knock, its...

Knuckles' Theme Special Remix by Tee Lopes, featuring Juns Senoue!


 That flute part in the middle has a little bit of Japanese taste in it, I think. Cool remix!
It's got a lot of easter eggs, including Knuckles' Theme from Sonic Adventure in Senoue-san's guitar part! Did you catch that?

10) Sonic the Movie

More information will come from Paramount.
(Hopefully something that makes us optimistic about the movie.)

11) Mobile Apps for Sonic 

Sonic Dash is celebrating its 6th anniversary! With over 50 million downloads worldwide, they are preparing a big update! Congrats & SEGA Hardlight!

Here are the links for those who haven't downloaded it yet:
https://www.sega.com/games/sonic-dash

12) Q&A session

Quick summary of all questions and answers:
  • Q) If crossover between Sonic and Batman happens: How would they meet the Joker?
  • A) Iizuka-san: I... have no idea. 
  • A) (in response to the request for a tie-up with DC) Aaron: Uhh, if there are people from DC here, come talk to me!
  • Q) Recent leaks on Sonic Movie: how did the leaks happen? What are the prevention method?
  • A) Aaon: A deep question... There is nothing we can comment on movie related topics at this panel. But thank you for your effort and energy for doing podcasts!
  • Q) What's your favorite Sonic meme?
  • A) Jasmin: Sonic Boom doll, 'cause I created that. And Sanic in general.
  • A) Aaron: Sanic in every evolving form. He is becoming more than what he once was. And that one song with Knuckles repeating over and over.
  • A) Senoue-san: Sanic. That's my answer.
  • A) No answer from Iizuka-san. He can't decide!
  • Q) Animation: how long does it take to make one episode of Sonic Mania Adventures?
  • A) Jasmin: Production started in Fall 2017, and first episode launched in March. So few months even just for 2 and half minutes of animation. (That's about half a year for just 300 seconds of animation. Respect.)
  • Q) Any chance that the art style for TSR Overdrive was inspired by Sonic Battle?
  • A) Jasmin: More of CG animation style; base is current modern Sonic art.
  • A) Aaron got more of Jet Set Radio vibe from the style.
  • Q) Any chance we will get another game like Sonic Generations? As a look-back game to celebrate the past series?
  • A) Iizuka-san: Currently there is no concrete plan for such game, but if there is a good timing for that, it could happen again in the future.
  • Q) Any chance to get exclusive pre-order bonuses for TSR in the US, just like the ones in Japan?
  • A) Aaron: Where is the marketing guy? Oh he is running away. No news on that, but if that happens, we will let you know immediately.
  • Q) Any insights on concept and ideas for Sonic Rivals? (Inspiration for making the game)
  • A) Iizuka-san: The PSP version? Oh good. Sonic was a platform action with solo-gameplay until that point, but we thought: what if we had a versus battle game for Sonic? So we made it with a studio in Canada.
  • Q) If Sonic Mania is in the line with Sonic Generations, is Sonic Forces on its separate timeline?
  • A) Iizuka-san: Modern Sonic is always happening in the same timeline. Classic Sonic is on its separate timeline.
  • Q) Are we going to see Super Sonic in the comics? Are events in comics cannon?
  • A) Aaron: Comics have their own stories, sometimes they follow the games, but many times they branch out in its own crazy ways. And if Super Sonic happens in comics, is it going to be considered canon, right, Iizuka-san?
  • A) Iizuka-san: Yes.

13) No giveaways this year? Of course yes! TSR concept art poster!
Shadow, Amy and Chao racing through! Get them at Meet & Greet session!

14) Sonic Mania Speedrun Competition is happening! 
Get that shiny Phantom Ruby Trophies!

15) One important confirmation by Iizuka-san

Iizuka-san: "We have begun production of the next major Sonic title!"

Oh yes!! Let's wait for the news in the future!

16) Guess what, it's Iizuka-san's birthday! Everybody sing Happy Birthday!

So it happened as everybody expected! Good luck on your new age, Iizuka-san!



17) To wrap up: 

Everybody say SE-GA-!


That's about it! Thank you for the never-boring panels, Aaron! For your hard work, Iizuka-san! For your cool merchs, Jasmin! For your great sounds, Senoue-san! And for your translations (beside your usual tasks), Austin! It was a great time!


And here are the important info from the panel packed in several official tweets!






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