Basically Amy:
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Sonic The Hedgehog
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Basically Amy:
Yeah, it's kinda like how a lot of people lump Sonic characters in with "furry," and while that may hold true for some of the SatAM/pre-reboot Archie characters, I felt like Sonic characters just really have their own thing going on.
One of the more interesting things is that Sonic X had an episode with a similar plot of "Sonic agrees to a date with Amy but gets held up fighting something". The main wrinkle is Sonic also double booked a race with Chris's uncle, Sam Speed. The majority of the episode is Amy and Sam hanging out for the day discussing Sonic and having their own adventure. Sam presents the idea that maybe Sonic has a fairly short term memory. At the end of the episode, Sonic meets back up with them and immediately challenges Sam to a race but doesn't acknowledge the date with Amy, who's standing right there.
Somewhere around Sonic Boom, things shifted in how Sonic and Amy's interactions are portrayed. Amy is less likely to openly ask for a date while Sonic is more willing to hang out with her and considers her part of the group.
I wonder if part of this is Rouge's fault. She has much closer to regular human proportions and gets portrayed as sexy. In comparison, Amy wears a red, backless dress but is a noodle limbed character portrayed as cute instead of sexy.
In that version, it's because Amy's crush on Sonic is something she tries to keep secret. It's obvious she likes him when you look at all the clues, but it's something that that version of Amy doesn't want Sonic to find out about. And Sonic in turn does view her as a friend, but also occasionally seems to get a bit jealous whenever Amy gives special attention to someone other than him, making one wonder if Boom Sonic may be harboring some deeply-concealed feelings of his own; feelings that he doesn't normally have to think about most of the time because Boom Amy doesn't pursue him at all like most other versions of Amy do.
And this mutual friendship with a hint of something more even allowed the writers of the Boom cartoon to poke fun at the Sonamy ship multiple times.
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Pretty sure Sonic from Boom has feelings for her by virtue of comments he's said when by himself. I also think there's an element of "worst kept secret" about Sonic & Amy since, at bare minimum, Tails and Eggman seemed fully aware of it. Which makes sense considering Tails is pretty perceptive and Eggman has cameras everywhere.
But despite the Sonic Boom subseries, it seems like the interaction between them in the main series shifted around then. Amy's less overt about dating and marriage while Sonic doesn't react with dread when he sees her.
But despite the Sonic Boom subseries, it seems like the interaction between them in the main series shifted around then. Amy's less overt about dating and marriage while Sonic doesn't react with dread when he sees her.
Second half of the Frontiers Prologue comic. I'm predicting the animation will release next week but this Thursday isn't impossible.
I would give it another watch with subs. I never hated it, but the dub has issues I can't completely ignore.
I just finished AoStH and thus the marathon and all Sonic cartoons until Prime. Probably give my thoughts tomorrow but stuck in a weird place where I don't if I should consider Sonic Christmas Blast its own thing or part of AoStH. I has its own feel despite otherwise being a post series special.
I think it was intended to be somewhat standalone but I consider it part of AoStH. Christmas Blast debuted on USA Network in 1996. AoStH was no longer airing on USA Network that year, but SatAM still was. You'd think they'd have wanted their Christmas special to tie closer to the show they were still airing, so the stronger resemblance it has to AoStH is striking.
