Sonic X Uncut Campaign Begins
Tristan Oliver | March 27, 2009
Save Sonic Has a New Campaign and Cause
Sonic X remains wildly popular domestically, enough so that in spite of not having new episodes produced for some time, the series survived the recent Saturday morning chopping block on FOX, and continues to run on the CW network, over the air.
However, a major sticking point among fans of the series is that American audiences received a heavily edited edition, with plot points and the musical score watered down for young demographics. It is in that form that the series continues on television. But online, if Save Sonic can rally enough support, that could change.
After noting 4Kids posts of uncut Yu-Gi-Oh! episodes on YouTube, the site is launching the Sonic X Uncut and Online Campaign, an initiative to convince the company to give Sonic X similar treatment.
But, as the announcement post from Save Sonic notes, this isn’t a campaign that’s launching out of the blue; it stems from what is purported to be official comment from an employee within 4Kids:
On March 17th, 2009, 4Kids Entertainment started uploading uncut Japanese episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh! onto their 4KidsTV YouTube channel (with no subtitles and only in the US at the moment, but they claim that they are working on these issues). Seeing this as another rare opportunity for Sonic X to have an uncut release of its own, I, Seriously Funny of the Save Sonic Staff, sent a private message out to the 4Kids employee in charge of the YouTube channel who went by the screen name “The Nameless Cubical Office Guy”. In the message, I asked what would be the best way for us, the fans of Sonic the Hedgehog, to express our interest in seeing 4Kids upload uncut Japanese episodes of Sonic X onto their 4KidsTV YouTube channel like they are doing with Yu-Gi-Oh!. Not too long afterwards, The Nameless Cubical Office Guy replied back to me with this…
The Nameless Cubical Office Guy of 4Kids Entertainment wrote: Dear Seriously Funny, THX for the kind words and support. We’d love to put up the Sonic X series in it’s the original form.
If you want it to happen don’t write letters/emails, sign online petitions or make phone calls. It won’t move the needle at all and they are time sucks for everyone involved.
Here’s what it will take:
*Watch what we post – watch it early and often. Then watch it some more. Get your friends to do the same. Repeat.
*Comments and suggestions are nice but not essential.
*Subscribe and friend the channel on YouTube.
*Embed videos, playlist & the channel on your blog or website.
*Write about the channel and shows on message boards, comments sections, etc. Link to the channel, playlists and videos. Do it some more. Repeat.Feel free to post this response anywhere. THX again and have a good weekend.
Best,
Nameless Cubical Office Guy
Needless to say, the suggestions that are given can be seen as quite easy and straightforward to follow. However, while it might be easy for a select few people to constantly plug every single thing that 4Kids produces, most other people may not be willing to do so. After all, a big chunk of the Sonic online community has been known to be in their teens and twenties–obviously not the age range that 4Kids usually aims for with their shows and products. So what exactly could those of us in the older demographic do if we want to see this happen? Well, we believe that simply visiting the 4KidsTV YouTube channel, watching, supporting, and spreading the word about the uploaded uncut Japanese episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh!, and leaving polite requests (one request per person, please) for them to upload uncut Japanese episodes of Sonic X would more than suffice for those of us in the older demographic who would like to get involved in making this happen.Now, we know this would mean a lot of us would have to swallow our pride while doing this, as 4Kids has done a lot of…questionable things in the past that have made us all angry at one point or another. And this obviously has little to nothing to do with persuading SEGA to reinstate Ryan Drummond as the official English voice actor of Sonic the Hedgehog (the main cause behind the Save Sonic community). But we are well aware that there are a lot of Sonic fans inside and out of Save Sonic who would love to see the uncut original Japanese version of Sonic X be released legally here in the US in some way, shape, or form. And it has become evident that the people behind the 4Kids YouTube channel are now willing to pay more attention to what the consumers and fans want. So after much consideration, we believe now would be a good time to put aside our grudges against 4Kids and support this new attitude they’re adapting.
We know we can make this happen, but we can’t do it alone. We need as many fans of Sonic X and the Sonic franchise as a whole to help us make our voices heard. The more people there are spreading the word and putting in requests, the more of a chance we’ll have of finally seeing the uncut original Japanese version of Sonic X be released legally here in the United States (and hopefully in other countries down the line as well). Thank you for your time, and we hope to see you all partake in our Sonic X Uncut and Online Campaign!
For more information, you can head to the official announcement.
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I’d rather watch Sonic X Cut, all the BS would be taken out.
Think of it as like the Phantom Edit of Episode 1
why dont they just show the 4th season with no Chris and give some of us americans how and what happened the Shadow and somewhat Cosmo i know what happened already but ya 4kids (you guys suck you ruined one piece sonic x yugioh gx and now your going to ruin yugioh 5ds) what will they add next to there stupid channel -_-
Sonic X was rubbish from the start, 4kids just made it worse.
If want to see what Sonic X should have been watch Sonic OVA.
I thougt at first that Chris wasen’t going to be a part of season 3. But I was wrong! Chris destroys everything, just think about it. Season 3 could be a sucsses if they killed chris or something so he coulden’t ba a part of Season 3. aAnd maybe done some improvments.
But I still think season 3 is the best one though.
Sonic OVA? Ok.
I like Rouge’s breasts as much as the next man but even I can see they couldn’t save the dull, meandering trainwreck that was Sonic X.
I mean there was literally 5 good minutes in each episode. The rest was about Chris drinking tea with Amy and Cream.
Sonic OVA kicks the shit out of sonic X.
Theres inuenndos all around
@Eggfang and Crysore: I agree with you two wholeheartedly.
Sonic X, IMO, was mediocre at best. Even the Japanese version was dull, even with Live and Learn.
It looks like the cubical guy just wants higher views on his videos. I don’t see how this is going to help Sonic X out.
To be honest, I’d rather see it picked up and redubbed by another team. Most of us have already seen Sonic X uncut in Japanese, the show premiered like 6 years ago.
Hmm… I wouldn’t minds Sonic X uncut. I mean, Sonic X wasn’t that good in the first place (coughChriscough), but I can actually tolerate the Japanese version, and at times actually enjoy it! I’d like an English, non-localized version!
OK, that was stupid of me, I mean that I’d like them to re-dub the show into english, but not edit it.
Dr. Eggfang, Crysor, Kits’Okami, serpx, and Sonic Warrior TJ speak the infalliable truth. Also, if 4krap lost it, I want VIZ to get Sonic. If FUNimation get’s it, I still won’t be able to see it ’cause they’ll put it on FUNimation Channel.
Hell yes VIZ should get it. That would be so kickass.
A uncut VIZ dub would be better than anything 4kids would do.
The japanese dub IS ten times better than the english version. Let’s rock this.
Also, the reason Jason Griffith frequently sounds so tired/boring is probably because 4kids is running him ragged doing everything else.
Osnic, SonicLegends, Chris is in the original series. They didn’t change a thing there. They actually couldn’t, really – then wouldn’t all the purists rant about how they’d edited a massive part of the series out and made a dozen plotholes.
Yes, Sonic X was mediocore, but I found it entertaining anyway. That seems to be the deal with the games, as well.
Jason’s voice acting seemed to have gotten a little worse when he started doing the games, but he’s getting better. I guess most of it is the fault of the voice director, though – 4KiDS’s voice actors are good when handled properly. It’s just that 4KiDS voice directors can’t handle them properly. If 4KiDS loses it and another company gets it, I’d like the 4KiDS actors to remain, since replacing them again could have another ridiculous knock-on effect.
What someone should do is make a different Sonic tv series
“Ohh, what a great view!!”
Dang you 4Kids…. dang you.
Sonic X was one of the most exciting, mature, and fun animes I have ever seen.
In Japanese.
I fully support this.
Personally, SEGA should do a new series but…
1) Use the same team who did Sonic X(TMS)
2) Hire the crew who wrote Transformers Animated
tl;dr version of the letter:
THX GUISE BUT I’M NOT LISTENING TO YOU
I support this 100% sonic X would have been WAY better without chris….
I want to watch sonic x uncut in English, 4kids ruined sonic x T_T
That’s what fansubs are for.
Sonic X sucked in the first place. All i want is a DECENT sonic show..
As long as I see episode 38 in its full (yet English-speaking) glory, that’s all I need.
Oh and the other 77 wouldn’t be so bad.
I want to see them!
Christ people, either support it or don’t. It’s a chance for LEGAL Uncut Sonic X. Don’t sit here and bitch without a good reason and WAAAH I don’t like this show isn’t a good reason.
I hope they upload the uncut episodes of Sonic X,i love both the English AND Japanese versions.
Why on earth did they haveto change the voices? Knuckles sounded like a mad fat guy wanting beer and Amy’s voice was to young for her. As well, Shadow sounded OLD and Rouge sounded less sultry. And the way they drew them…tsk..tsk…tsk, let’s just say if you were an cartoonist working there, every animation company would alienate you. (Sorry if I’m harsh, but I’m honest).
I hate the new voices, honestly. They don’t fit and they seem cheap, too. Not only that, but the way they drew the characters were downright awfu except for Chris. (even Cheese looked awful!)