Rambling About Sonic X

So what's the X stand for? Never thought about it before, but I don't know why that's what the show is called. Does anyone know? It is just an X is cool thing? I wouldn't be surprised.

Not very unique thoughts about this show, I don't think. But I don't really know what the general consensus is on X. Some people love it, but many also don't care for it. No idea how it is seen generally.

I'm sure there's some stuff I forgot to mention here. My revisit was quite a while ago. But this gets across the important stuff.

btw, I show off the X Sonic mod for SRB2 here, but I don't actually like it. Way too overpowered and hard to use. Not a fan.

Here's links to the mods used in this video.

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0:00 Intro
3:51 Season 1
26:23 Season 2
35:47 Season 3

[littlebigwavee]

I don't typically comment on videos, but I just wanna say that the Helen episode is straight up my favorite Sonic story in the series. Not just "Sonic X: the Series, " I mean the ENTIRE Sonic series. It's just so "Sonic, " you know? I don't mind the world-ending stakes or super saiyan battles in space, but something Sonic running around the world, enjoying nature, and helping people just seems so fun to me. I know it'll never happen but an episodic Sonic show reminiscent of Kino's Journey where he travels to a new place each episode and meets and helps out the locals would make me quite a happy dude ngl. That's what I'd consider "peak" Sonic.

[JeffreyCrossaint]

I can’t believe Sonic was so popular they made 10 of them

[chi-wind]

The thing like about finale, literally the crew tried everything they could to beat the Metarex. I grew up with Sonic X, and one thing I like is how powerful the Metarex are.Like, Sonic and his friends could not beat them on their own. Which emphasizes how dangerous they were.

I think that what makes ending more tragic, the super forms could not do anything, the Master Emerald was destroyed and the power of believing the main character was useless.

Tails shooting Cosmo was literally the only way to save the universe. In anime, there is trope that the main characters are always going to succeed and everything will be ok. In this situation …no, one of the cast had to sacrifice the love of his life to save everyone.

When Sonic gave Tails Cosmo’s seed, and Tails was wailing that he believed Sonic could save her.
People rag on Sonic not doing anything.

What could you say? What could anyone say?

I will never say that this was okay to a kid .like but if it did not happen then everyone would have died.

This shows that Sonic cannot rescue everyone. Sometimes there are no good endings.

[ferry]

I disagree about Amy being "too girly" being a bad thing tbh, and I'm saying this as someone who was a tomboy growing up. Despite having super girly interests, it wasn't her entire personality - she had a lot of spunk and compassion in the show, which I really enjoyed. Liking cute girly stuff didn't detract from her character at all, and I'm honestly not sure where you're getting the tomboyish in-game part from. She was always conceptualised and presented as a girl with average girly interests (her doing training in Sonic Battle doesn't make her a tomboy lol), and that's not a bad thing.

[theove]

Tails DOES fly in the show, but not until season 2, and even then they don’t use it very much.

[seagullmoe]

I think Kiyoko Yoshimura deserves an amazing shoutout for her work on Sonic X, she didn't write all of it but most of the important (and best) episodes were written by her, also important to mention that she was the main writer of season 3. Both Sonic Unleashed and Sonic X are some of the best Sonic story content this series has to offer and it's no coincidence that she was heavily involved in all of it, if Marie Granette was real, it would be her. I really hope we get to see more of her work someday, she's still a freelance anime writer, she could still come back!

[cyberwolf]

In my opinion Shadow just exclaiming “I am Shadow, Shadow The Hedgehog” is such an underrated line. Feels like each time he says it he is asserting that he is who he is no matter what others may say and he will not change. Really liked how they brought that line in to Shadow Gens and really hope the writers find a way to implement it into Sonic 3

[cellperfecto]

30:56 Personally...I disagree. The most tragic part of Gamma's story is that no one knows of his sacrifice, not even Amy. No one is present to see his good deed, except one of the Flickies. I think that adds to the emotion of this being a true selfless act: his sacrifice was for no other purpose that to do the right thing. I think is pretty gutwrenching that Amy was the person who showed him the value of life, yet she will never know of Gamma's sacrifice.

When Amy is there...is not as impactful.

[StellaFangX]

11:30 - 11:36
According to Uekawa. the Modern's designer, Sonic's green eyes represents nature, so is kinda fitting that he loves nature as shown in the show.

[mokuroh]

Helen was so perfect to fill the main human character role that it almost feels like this is the timeline where someone moved the chair, she not only has an interesting dynamic with Sonic but I think everyone agrees she could have some interesting interactions with Shadow too, but alas, at least we have fanart

[shadex]

How can you NOT recommend a show that contains the line "I turned into a bar of soap and gave them all the slip." smh

[metalsentry]

the Metarex arc is one of my favorite sonic stories that sonic team has ever told. considering how it was Kyoko Yoshimura's first sonic story which would propell her to work on the games, and how members of sonic team make subtle references to the events of the arc on sonic channel, it occurs to me that this could very well been a story pitch for a 3d sonic game. if you use your imagination to erase the sonic x quirks of the story (essentially reversing what x did with the adventure games), and give it cutscenes akin to shadow 05 and sonic riders, it would a damn great story for a sonic adventure 3. it would make alot of sense as it continued to raise the stakes that the adventure ganes did (going from perfect chaos to final hazard), the story being perfect for multiple perspectives across different campaigns, and the final big bad literally being called "final mova" like final boss in a sonic game. its so creatively congruent with the adventure games that it pains me that we dont have a great game to accompany the awesome story.

[seematahir]

A cute detail this vid made me pick up on about the show is that Sonic loving flowers might be a parallel to Rouge's love for gems. Since in the show, Rouge is paired up with Topaz and ends up liking her a lot, and a topaz is a kind of jewel. Similarly, Sonic loves flowers, and so his main love interest is named after a kind of flower. They even tease in the S2 finale that Sonic might reciprocate some of Amy's feelings.

Not sure if it was fully intentional but if thats what they were going for its a really a clever and cute touch.

[Bestmotion]

The day has come, brothers
A lot of you were waiting for this moment, now enjoy the next 50 minutes of this discussion

LET'S GO RAMBLING

[CraigAmation]

I like the Sonic X continuity more than what the games became, starting with the 2010 stuff.

[Kelps.mp]

31:02 A friend of mine said he didn't like Amy being there to see Gamma's death because it kind of undermines Gamma being a mysterious hero nobody knows, since he destroyed the others E-100 robots for the sake of their freedom and safety of everyone since those robots would prolly cause destruction.

[parjupiter]

According to an interview I couldn't retrieve, the "X" in the show's title stands for the "intersecting worlds" topic. It should be seen more as a symbol than a letter.

[heroicgangster]

Sonic X is still the best sonic show to me because I like shows that try to actually take Sonic seriously beyond the normal cartoon Sonic stuff. It embraces the really high concept early 2000s Sonic-isms while being grounded for kids to enjoy. And while I enjoyed Sonic Prime, I hate that the show felt like it didn't want to do the effort to actually be a story to be taken seriously, it tricks people into thinking it's serious cus the show has to be for kids. It felt like a show that didn't know what to do with its characters beyond the fighting and conflicts

When to me, the fun of a Sonic story involves both conflict and seeing the characters shine beyond the day being saved.

[Bestmotion]

The thing with Dark Sonic is that he was made by artificial chaos power
Sonic represents the life of nature and hope
Add artificial negativity to that life and you got an unstoppable force of evil
The soul will be lost and drained entirely, combined with shattering Sonic's emotional control we got Dark Sonic



But we can't have that because the main character should not be a killing machine

[BigDripMike]

Sonic X was my first true experience of these characters as a kid and I still hold this series close to my heart