Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie

Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie (1996)

ソニック★ザ★ヘッジホッグ

Scrape your knuckles. Catch some tails.

Sonic's arch nemesis Dr. Robotnik has been banished from the Land of Darkness by an evil Metal Robotnik. The devious doctor tells Sonic that the Robot Generator has been sabotaged and will blow Planet Freedom to kingdom come. But it's not until the President's beautiful daughter Sara turns on the charm that Sonic springs into action.

Date of release
1996-01-26
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (82)
Runtime
54m
Genres
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Science Fiction, Action
Director
Kazunori Ikegami

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog or Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie is a 1996 Japanese two-part original video animation (OVA) based on the Sonic the Hedgehog video games by Sega. It was produced by Studio Pierrot and directed by Kazunori Ikegami. It features Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Dr. Eggman, Metal Sonic, and supporting characters created for the OVA.

Production and release

The OVA series was produced by Studio Pierrot, Sega Enterprises and General Entertainment under the supervision of Sonic Team, Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima. It is directed and storyboarded by Kazutaka Ikegami, with Mayori Sekijima handling the story structure, Masashi Kubota writing the scripts, Tsuneo Ninomiya designing the characters and Mitsuhiro Tada composing the music.

ADV Films announced they had licensed the OVA series at Project A-Kon 9, which took place in May 1998. It was dubbed in English and released as a single direct-to-video film under the name of Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie on VHS and DVD on September 7, 1999, to coincide with the international release of Sonic Adventure for the Dreamcast.

In Taiwan, the OVA was broadcast on the Shouhua Cartoon Channel in its original language with Mandarin subtitles, while in Hong Kong the OVA was dubbed into Cantonese and shown on TVB Jade. The OVA also received a Korean dub in South Korea under the name Sonic Vs. Metal Sonic that was released on VHS in 1997.

Discotek Media attempted to license the show for a Blu-ray release in North America. However, Sega was unable to locate key documents related to the OVA's music or voice actors.

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