Did This Underrated Sonic Cartoon Inspire The Movies?

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Sonic the Hedgehog has lent his name to so many different projects across multiple mediums that keeping track of new ideas for the franchise is a fool's errand. Despite that, the franchise's many animated series have innovated on the simple idea in many ways that are still important today.

The hit Sonic the Hedgehog live-action adaptation became so immensely powerful that it has already spawned a hotly anticipated follow-up, a standalone series, and an unnamed third entry. The film made some huge changes to the Sonic canon, which has been loose at the best of times, but its big change was placing the character on Earth. That idea has been done before, most notably in the rarely discussed animated series Sonic X.

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Sonic X dropped in 2003 in its native Japan but came to the rest of the world over the following three years. It ran for 78 episodes, divided amongst three seasons. It's the first and only anime adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog, as the previous two animated series were handled by noted video game cartoon moguls DIC Entertainment. The series was animated by TMS Entertainment, one of the oldest and most storied studios with titles like Akira, Lupin the Third, and D. Gray-man under its belt.

The American release of the show was handled by the much-maligned 4Kids Entertainment, which is known for butchering anime to more easily sell them to kids. Sonic X is actually one of the most faithful translations they've created, barring a couple of characters who «disappear» rather than die. The series wasn't particularly popular in its native Japan, but American audiences absolutely loved the new Sonic series, so the latter 26 episodes went straight to US TV.

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