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make this for Jason Griffith.\n\nSonic's been through a ton of voice actors in his time, which I admit does frustrate me as I personally always preferred the Sonic Adventure voice cast and felt they helped make Sonic's transition to 3D gaming almost feel perfect in a way.\nEvery single generation has their own opinion on who Sonic's best voice actor(s) were depending on when they entered the series, some preferring Jaleel White or Ryan Drummond, others leaning towards Jason Griffith or Junichi Kanemaru, and those left out siding with Roger C. Smith as the best voice for the character.\nPersonally I can't stand the newer VO's and feel that they've really helped push me away from Sonic over the years as despite my love for Sonic Generations, I really haven't been satisfied with a single current-gen Sonic game since Sonic Unleashed. (X360) But I can't deny, I felt the exact same way when 4kids came to the scene and took over from the San Diego cast in 2005. (2003 if you count Sonic X).\n\nI never went as far as to sign petitions to demand the cast be sacked or send them death threats or anything that crazy but there was no denying I was deeply upset over the change and although opinions clearly vary with this completely medically insane fanbase I'm a part of, to me I felt like the Sonic cast already had perfect voice actors for the roles. I'd argue the voice direction was terrible and extremely over the top but by Sonic Heroes I felt that they nailed it.\n\nSo yeah, 4kids took over and I was horrified as I felt a huge part of my childhood died with Ryan Drummond and his fellow actors. It really didn't help the fact that the new actors joined at the worst possible time as well as the quality of Sonic's 3D games seriously took a nose dive with games like Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic 2006, Sonic Riders and Sonic and the Secret Rings.\nEverything took a turn for the worst, even fans that stuck around for Sonic Heroes all agreed they hated the following games. Only the most hardcore of the hardcore could find something to love out of them as if they were trying to find light in a prism and the infamous 'Sonic Cycle' meme began.\n\nWhere's my story going with this? Well eventually I got to meet Jason Griffith on MySpace and discovered that he's actually a really great and down to earth guy. A lot of the 4kids actors were.\nIn fact what made the 4kids crew so special and interesting to me once I got to know a few of them is that unlike most voice actors who just go into a booth, record their lines and go home. The 4kids cast were like a family. They all work together on a lot of television shows like Sonic X, Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, Viva Pinata, etc\nThey all get together and table read, have lots of fun with it, they all know each other and have been doing what they enjoy most together for years now.\nIn a way, you could make the same comparison to Sonic and his friends. They're almost like a family, they've been having their own adventures together for 2 decades now, and when I hear the 4kids actors behind the cast, it doesn't just feel like complete strangers recording lines in a sound booth, it almost feels like genuine friends talking with each other.\n\nWell that's just my way of looking at things I guess. I mean I personally felt when Sonic Unleashed came along the voice actors were a lot more comfortable in their roles and weren't just simply trying to imitate the previous actors and were trying to make the roles their own. I mean you could just TELL in Sonic X the new cast were trying to imitate the current cast almost like a substitute teacher trying to desperately earn the respect of her students and failing miserably. \nIt didn't feel like they were trying to project any emotion or put themselves in the roles, it just felt like they were trying to parrot what the other actors had already established and it failed miserably.\n\nBut by Sonic Unleashed I'd gained a lot of respect for the actors because it felt like they were finally comfortable in the roles and gained the confidence to take the roles as their own and put themselves into the shoes of their respected characters and not just the shoes of the previous cast.\nI could tell there was genuine effort and emotion going into the characters now and didn't just feel like I was listening to complete strangers in a sound recording booth.\nPlus Sonic Unleashed had a lot of effort put into the production, it was almost like watching a movie half the time. The cinematics were breathtaking.\n\nBut to sum it up, the main reason I learned to love the 4kids cast is well, they've been around the longest. 9 years I think it was, compared to the 5 or 6 the San Diego cast was around.\nIt's kinda hard not to get used to the characters roles in that amount of time, and like I said. The quality of the games did improve over time as well as the acting.\n\nTo this day though it really baffles me why Sega decided to ditch 4kids and replace the cast yet again for Sonic Colours and Sonic Free Riders. I mean yeah fans were really upset about the San Diego cast being booted out for a while but after many years they eventually settled, yet bizarrely 9 years later Sega finally answers their old complaints... by bringing in yet another new cast??\n\nHonestly, to this day I've never understood how Sega of Japan works, there almost seems to be virtually no communication over there and the quality of their games truly reflects on that a lot of the time.\nIt's hard to say who to point the finger at but I'm sure many Sega fanatics will agree that when Sega's previous president died, coincidently the same year the Dreamcast did, all of the love and dedication the company was once known for died with him.\nAnd I think like everyone else right now suggesting that Iwata and Reggie should be replaced at Nintendo, I'm sure Sega having new management really couldn't hurt as the people in charge, to me, seem batshit insane.\n\nEither way, when 4kids were booted off, my love for the voice acting that went into Sonic's games left with them. I'm finding it impossible to warm up to the new cast and I don't know if history will repeat itself over time but honestly, the entire series just feels cold and isolated to me now.\nI no longer see the Sonic characters as old friends who have known each other for as long as I've known them. They feel like complete strangers. Almost like strange alien parasites, latching on to the dead bodies of what I once considered my childhood heroes. \n\nI dunno, melodramatic rants aside, I do feel like the last remaining fragments of my childhood died with 4kids and the new Sonic series doesn't appeal to me in the mere slightest. I hate the new writing staff, I hate their --embarrassing-- attempt at constantly throwing humour into the plot, I'm finding it impossible to warm up to the new voice actors and honestly, those things would have all been trivial complaints if I still enjoyed the games but honestly, outside of Sonic generations, Sonic unleashed was the last sonic game I truly enjoyed. Everyone else seemed to really enjoy Sonic colours and fans seem split down the middle over Sonic lost world, but with the announcement of Sonic Boom (Which they promise isn't a reboot but then they made an extremely similar promise when fans were worried 4kids were going to replace the San Diego cast), I dunno. I guess I feel like the new cast and these newer games forced me out of caring for the series.\nEven though I didn't intend it when I started this picture, in a way, it's almost as if Sonic and Jason are bidding me a personal farewell as we all depart on our separate ways.\n\nWhether I'll stick around and continue to support Sonic in the future I really don't know, but regardless of everything. I'll always have Sonic unleashed and this picture to look back on for fond memories of what used to be...\n\nWe all have to grow and move on sometime...", "description_bbcode_parsed": "I sadly never got around to finishing this one.
I always thought it was cool whenever you got to see pictures of voice actors meeting their characters and standing side by side for a photo together which really inspired me to make this for Jason Griffith.

Sonic's been through a ton of voice actors in his time, which I admit does frustrate me as I personally always preferred the Sonic Adventure voice cast and felt they helped make Sonic's transition to 3D gaming almost feel perfect in a way.
Every single generation has their own opinion on who Sonic's best voice actor(s) were depending on when they entered the series, some preferring Jaleel White or Ryan Drummond, others leaning towards Jason Griffith or Junichi Kanemaru, and those left out siding with Roger C. Smith as the best voice for the character.
Personally I can't stand the newer VO's and feel that they've really helped push me away from Sonic over the years as despite my love for Sonic Generations, I really haven't been satisfied with a single current-gen Sonic game since Sonic Unleashed. (X360) But I can't deny, I felt the exact same way when 4kids came to the scene and took over from the San Diego cast in 2005. (2003 if you count Sonic X).

I never went as far as to sign petitions to demand the cast be sacked or send them death threats or anything that crazy but there was no denying I was deeply upset over the change and although opinions clearly vary with this completely medically insane fanbase I'm a part of, to me I felt like the Sonic cast already had perfect voice actors for the roles. I'd argue the voice direction was terrible and extremely over the top but by Sonic Heroes I felt that they nailed it.

So yeah, 4kids took over and I was horrified as I felt a huge part of my childhood died with Ryan Drummond and his fellow actors. It really didn't help the fact that the new actors joined at the worst possible time as well as the quality of Sonic's 3D games seriously took a nose dive with games like Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic 2006, Sonic Riders and Sonic and the Secret Rings.
Everything took a turn for the worst, even fans that stuck around for Sonic Heroes all agreed they hated the following games. Only the most hardcore of the hardcore could find something to love out of them as if they were trying to find light in a prism and the infamous 'Sonic Cycle' meme began.

Where's my story going with this? Well eventually I got to meet Jason Griffith on MySpace and discovered that he's actually a really great and down to earth guy. A lot of the 4kids actors were.
In fact what made the 4kids crew so special and interesting to me once I got to know a few of them is that unlike most voice actors who just go into a booth, record their lines and go home. The 4kids cast were like a family. They all work together on a lot of television shows like Sonic X, Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, Viva Pinata, etc
They all get together and table read, have lots of fun with it, they all know each other and have been doing what they enjoy most together for years now.
In a way, you could make the same comparison to Sonic and his friends. They're almost like a family, they've been having their own adventures together for 2 decades now, and when I hear the 4kids actors behind the cast, it doesn't just feel like complete strangers recording lines in a sound booth, it almost feels like genuine friends talking with each other.

Well that's just my way of looking at things I guess. I mean I personally felt when Sonic Unleashed came along the voice actors were a lot more comfortable in their roles and weren't just simply trying to imitate the previous actors and were trying to make the roles their own. I mean you could just TELL in Sonic X the new cast were trying to imitate the current cast almost like a substitute teacher trying to desperately earn the respect of her students and failing miserably.
It didn't feel like they were trying to project any emotion or put themselves in the roles, it just felt like they were trying to parrot what the other actors had already established and it failed miserably.

But by Sonic Unleashed I'd gained a lot of respect for the actors because it felt like they were finally comfortable in the roles and gained the confidence to take the roles as their own and put themselves into the shoes of their respected characters and not just the shoes of the previous cast.
I could tell there was genuine effort and emotion going into the characters now and didn't just feel like I was listening to complete strangers in a sound recording booth.
Plus Sonic Unleashed had a lot of effort put into the production, it was almost like watching a movie half the time. The cinematics were breathtaking.

But to sum it up, the main reason I learned to love the 4kids cast is well, they've been around the longest. 9 years I think it was, compared to the 5 or 6 the San Diego cast was around.
It's kinda hard not to get used to the characters roles in that amount of time, and like I said. The quality of the games did improve over time as well as the acting.

To this day though it really baffles me why Sega decided to ditch 4kids and replace the cast yet again for Sonic Colours and Sonic Free Riders. I mean yeah fans were really upset about the San Diego cast being booted out for a while but after many years they eventually settled, yet bizarrely 9 years later Sega finally answers their old complaints... by bringing in yet another new cast??

Honestly, to this day I've never understood how Sega of Japan works, there almost seems to be virtually no communication over there and the quality of their games truly reflects on that a lot of the time.
It's hard to say who to point the finger at but I'm sure many Sega fanatics will agree that when Sega's previous president died, coincidently the same year the Dreamcast did, all of the love and dedication the company was once known for died with him.
And I think like everyone else right now suggesting that Iwata and Reggie should be replaced at Nintendo, I'm sure Sega having new management really couldn't hurt as the people in charge, to me, seem batshit insane.

Either way, when 4kids were booted off, my love for the voice acting that went into Sonic's games left with them. I'm finding it impossible to warm up to the new cast and I don't know if history will repeat itself over time but honestly, the entire series just feels cold and isolated to me now.
I no longer see the Sonic characters as old friends who have known each other for as long as I've known them. They feel like complete strangers. Almost like strange alien parasites, latching on to the dead bodies of what I once considered my childhood heroes.

I dunno, melodramatic rants aside, I do feel like the last remaining fragments of my childhood died with 4kids and the new Sonic series doesn't appeal to me in the mere slightest. I hate the new writing staff, I hate their --embarrassing-- attempt at constantly throwing humour into the plot, I'm finding it impossible to warm up to the new voice actors and honestly, those things would have all been trivial complaints if I still enjoyed the games but honestly, outside of Sonic generations, Sonic unleashed was the last sonic game I truly enjoyed. Everyone else seemed to really enjoy Sonic colours and fans seem split down the middle over Sonic lost world, but with the announcement of Sonic Boom (Which they promise isn't a reboot but then they made an extremely similar promise when fans were worried 4kids were going to replace the San Diego cast), I dunno. I guess I feel like the new cast and these newer games forced me out of caring for the series.
Even though I didn't intend it when I started this picture, in a way, it's almost as if Sonic and Jason are bidding me a personal farewell as we all depart on our separate ways.

Whether I'll stick around and continue to support Sonic in the future I really don't know, but regardless of everything. I'll always have Sonic unleashed and this picture to look back on for fond memories of what used to be...

We all have to grow and move on sometime...", "writing": "", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "", "pools_count": 1, "title": "Sonic and Jason Tribute", "deleted": "f", "public": "t", "mimetype": "image/jpeg", "pagecount": "1", "rating_id": "0", "rating_name": "General", "ratings": [], "submission_type_id": "1", "type_name": "Picture/Pinup", "guest_block": "f", "friends_only": "f", "comments_count": "0", "views": "16" }