I wrote about the Uekawa "human Sonic" on my blog a while back. There are some Japanese articles that survive to this day that explain this design. But none of them call it "human Sonic" either.
World war blue sounds fucking hilarious from a developed conceptual standpoint, despite your warnings i still feel interested to know more about it lmao
When I was younger I used to think the idea of a human Sonic with a similar powerset would be super cool, but these days I've concluded that this would actually detract from Sonic's iconic appeal and make him more generic. There's plenty of anime protagonists with neon hair colors and crazy powers, but there's only one speedy blue hedgehog with an attitude.
@@Dr.Mlieko The Flash's powers are different. His powers come from an external "Speed Force", and he doesn't spin into a ball. Sonic's powerset is more along the lines of having his own native speed and taking advantage of that speed to curl into a ball for various purposes such as gaining speed down hills and performing homing attacks. Basically, they're not similar any further than the surface level "They're both speedsters" perspective.
@@Crow_Rising The closest i think about human ball is 1967 Spider-man webbing himself to roll straight into some people (i forgot whom those two were).
I'm actually glad sonic has no official human design. It leaves alot to the imagination allowing fans to let their creativity all out. I'm midly disappointed to find out world war blue failed horribly. And the fact it's just all nudity really ruined it for me what a let down.
But remember when someone makes their own headcanon on what a human version of a character looks like there's always gonna be a bunch of racism and arguments so no one is safe. I'm just saying
Imagine Sonicman being in Shadow x Sonic generations,also fun fact one of the writers of Feltway made a fan comic concluding the Comic in his way,they got Techo and Amy together with a kid too.
Dang, when you started talking about World War Blue I was honestly pretty hyped. The premise is charming and creative and I would have been interested. But then you talked more about it and yeah… :(
“It’s me! I’m ugly!” He’s not wrong. This feels very cursed. Yuji Uekawa’s design is so cool. But obviously, Sonic Man is the best design. 😆 Ugh! Mike Pollock and Matt Shipman voiced these guys?! From what you said about it being bad, it’s a shame because they’re both so talented!
“Is that nothing starts until you take action…and if you time to worry then run.” Was that a reference to Sonic’s and Elise’s conversation in 06 of all things?
I haven’t heard of “World War Blue” in years. First time I heard of it was another UA-camr review of it…& that reviewer basically shares your thoughts on it. Especially when it comes with the slow pacing & obsession with fan service through nudity. I’ve heard that things get better later in the manga, but the super rough beginning is kinda scaring most people off from giving it another chance. Wow, Fleetway human Sonic is kinda uncanny looking. Although I’m kinda digging Tails’…tails being redone as his hair in his human design. And I can weirdly hear Mike Pollock giving the mom the voice that maid he played in “Sonic X”.
There's another one I can think about, kei, the designer of HATSUNE MIKU and Sega Hard Girl drew a cover for Dengeki with the seha character "dreamcast" with a human sonic dressed like a rebellious Japanese high schooler, and human tails with ponytails and wearing a schoolgirl uniform. The artwork looks really good check it out.
This one may be from sega but I’m counting it as a fun easter egg. In the music video Shaggy ball z vs One Jump Man there’s a character in the audience who looks a lot like a human version of Tangle the lemur from the idw comics.
I hope you do that deep dive into the World War Blue manga because I've only seen people talk about the anime, and the manga clearly has more content since it's longer.
When did World War Blue come out, because let's all remind ourselves that "If you have time to worry, then run" is something that Sonic said to Elise so if this manga came up with it first that's kinda wild
naaaaaah man my facial expression went for happy to true dread when I saw what they did to my boy opa opa in that blue world anime +any opa opa fans out there, anyone?
I decided to look into World War Blue in Japanese, and it turns out it's not even a shonen manga. It's actually a seinen web comic, and someone on Wikipedia just lied that it was shonen
My idea for a human sonic Would just be either teen gohan from dbz with sonics hairstyle or If anyones ever played the world ends with you Basically him as a human in that style ( not the anime but the game) Or megaman zero (gba) style
The antennas on the nicer looking human sonic designs shoes are connected to the controller in his hand since he's human he had to adopt tails technology to use the controller to make his shoes run fast.
i remember that ep of sonic the comic back in the 90s,i remember reading it as a little kid thinking eww wtf they done to him? turns out it was just a illusion made up by robotnick lol
With Gender Bend, I like Humanization for design challenge and should be picture only. My definition is: translating what make the character into human form. What I hate is when they preserve animal features when they are supposed to be human! 5:02 This design is too detail to capture Sonic's simple design 5:28 Ha, that's explain! 7:02 The Delphino runner from Sunshine of Sonic 7:40 Go go Sonic-Man!
If the guy from the Tokyo Game Show magazine isn't Human Sonic, then i kinda imagine that Human Sonic in Sonic Destruction would look more like Leo Craig from Balan Wonderworld, but with black hair (Like the Comic Sonic, A.K.A. Erin) instead of blonde. That way it'd make him look like something in-between Comic Sonic, A.K.A. Erin, and the "Human Sonic" from the Tokyo Game Show magazine. Leo Craig has similar hairstyle to Sonic, and his blue bandana might be a reference to the fact he looks like Sonic but he isn't him. Imagine Leo Craig from Balan Wonderworld dyeing his hair red, wearing gothic clothes, smoking a cigarette, and having reptilian eyes. 🤣
OK neat video Squid but. 1. World War Blue is a hentai disguise as a shōnen 2. said manga and it's "Gear" character shouldn't count any way (like you said with Sonic Man not being a human Sonic) as it's not endorsed by Sega and it's "using medieval warfare as a allegory for the Sega and Nintendo console wars" is just the author's lame excuse to hide the fact he put a hentai manga in a shōnen magazine (Neptunia is a better console wars parody anyway)
@@DarkLink1996. Dude I don't know that much about those two but from what I got, they are more so a case of them having medium amount of fan service while WWB is more so a case of a author LITERALLY putting his bad hentai manga in a (lesser known) shōnen magazine
Bro, sorry but you were praising the art and design of that first one (And that Tails with ""potential" LMAO) And then claiming that the anime one only took blue from Sonic? Come on give it some credit, the tan arms and torso being shown in a creative way, similar to the first example but done better, the gloves are re-contextualized as hand wraps, how is that not cool? And a shounen protagonist fits Sonic very well. I might check this anime out now, sounds fun as hell.
Why did the kill off Tails in WWB? If they wanted to kill someone to give Sonic motivation to fight Nintendo. Wouldn't Sonic's father, the Alex Kidd character be better? It would also work as another real life parallel, Mario defeating Alex Kidd, so Sonic steps forward in his place.
About the segment World War Blue, I didn't read their mangas either since this is the first I'm hearing of it, but the manga should always be better than the actual anime Edit: I accidentally said the manga was a comic so I fixed that, thank god I noticed that, I promise I'm cultured!
Can’t believe you made world war blue resurface in my mind, I thought it was some fan made thing I found on UA-cam like a decade ago
What is World War Blue?
Oooohhhhhhh.
I was expecting him to mention it until you said it in the comments and now i am not suprised 😂
I wrote about the Uekawa "human Sonic" on my blog a while back. There are some Japanese articles that survive to this day that explain this design. But none of them call it "human Sonic" either.
World war blue sounds fucking hilarious from a developed conceptual standpoint, despite your warnings i still feel interested to know more about it lmao
😂 same
I was sold on the nudity part, sign me up boss
They invented anime food fight
it is baaaaaaad bro. trust me.
I watched the anime with my brother years ago…I won’t return to that dark time even if it kills me.
We were robbed of that Sonic Archie Issue of SonicMan.
Thank Ken Penders for that.
@TheDoomsdayzoner thank you ken penders!
When I was younger I used to think the idea of a human Sonic with a similar powerset would be super cool, but these days I've concluded that this would actually detract from Sonic's iconic appeal and make him more generic. There's plenty of anime protagonists with neon hair colors and crazy powers, but there's only one speedy blue hedgehog with an attitude.
I mean, we literally already have The Flash
@@Dr.Mlieko The Flash's powers are different. His powers come from an external "Speed Force", and he doesn't spin into a ball. Sonic's powerset is more along the lines of having his own native speed and taking advantage of that speed to curl into a ball for various purposes such as gaining speed down hills and performing homing attacks.
Basically, they're not similar any further than the surface level "They're both speedsters" perspective.
@@Crow_Rising So basically Quicksilver
@@Dr.Mlieko I've never seen Quicksilver spin into a ball like Sonic either.
@@Crow_Rising The closest i think about human ball is 1967 Spider-man webbing himself to roll straight into some people (i forgot whom those two were).
The humanized concept art for sonic looks like if Mr. Krabs, Squidward and Bart Simpson had a baby somehow
Sonic the Human looks cursed af
Bouta cop for a pfp
Well the story was a literal nightmare.
Huh. I have somehow never heard about World War Blue. I guess the world is full of things I haven't seen yet.
It's a hentai too
Bug man ahh comment
For how big and branchy the Sonic series is, I'm actually surprised there weren't even more official depictions of him as a human.
I always envisioned a human Sonic wearing a letterman jacket, I dunno why, it just sounds cool to me
Someone write that down
Hell yes
Forget human Sonic I wanna see what that looks like on regular Sonic!
FR THOOO TRUE
Probably because it matches his shoes
I'm actually glad sonic has no official human design.
It leaves alot to the imagination allowing fans to let their creativity all out.
I'm midly disappointed to find out world war blue failed horribly. And the fact it's just all nudity really ruined it for me what a let down.
Nudity?
@@samuelrodriguez9801 I'm talking about the one in this video he's talking about.
@@zcgamerandreacts2762 I got to that eventually.
Sonic man
But remember when someone makes their own headcanon on what a human version of a character looks like there's always gonna be a bunch of racism and arguments so no one is safe.
I'm just saying
7:28 Shadow the Hedgehog motorcycle helmet: "Allow me to introduce myself!"
Imagine Sonicman being in Shadow x Sonic generations,also fun fact one of the writers of Feltway made a fan comic concluding the Comic in his way,they got Techo and Amy together with a kid too.
Dang, when you started talking about World War Blue I was honestly pretty hyped. The premise is charming and creative and I would have been interested. But then you talked more about it and yeah… :(
My thoughts exactly... Reminds me of why I can't bring myself to rewatch Food Wars or see the special, and even that only has _censored_ nudity.
It’s not that nudity is bad, it’s simply unnecessary.
A perverted mind will destroy itself.
“It’s me! I’m ugly!” He’s not wrong. This feels very cursed. Yuji Uekawa’s design is so cool. But obviously, Sonic Man is the best design. 😆
Ugh! Mike Pollock and Matt Shipman voiced these guys?! From what you said about it being bad, it’s a shame because they’re both so talented!
@@NightFuryLover31 It's also a Hentai, Not a Shōnen which makes it worse (also Sonic Man got robbed hard)
“Is that nothing starts until you take action…and if you time to worry then run.”
Was that a reference to Sonic’s and Elise’s conversation in 06 of all things?
I personally don't know, but I think it's hilarious.
Given this show came out in 2007 and that was the exact line word for word? Absolutely.
10:44 he does have that sonic voice.
Get that glazing out of your mouth
If you want another human version of Sonic and friends. I highly recommend you check out, Clamp in Wonderland 1994 ^_^
Hell no.
I haven’t heard of “World War Blue” in years. First time I heard of it was another UA-camr review of it…& that reviewer basically shares your thoughts on it. Especially when it comes with the slow pacing & obsession with fan service through nudity. I’ve heard that things get better later in the manga, but the super rough beginning is kinda scaring most people off from giving it another chance.
Wow, Fleetway human Sonic is kinda uncanny looking. Although I’m kinda digging Tails’…tails being redone as his hair in his human design. And I can weirdly hear Mike Pollock giving the mom the voice that maid he played in “Sonic X”.
Oh God, I blocked World War Blue from my brain. I genuinely hate the Tetris guy
World War Blue retrospective would be so funny
There's another one I can think about, kei, the designer of HATSUNE MIKU and Sega Hard Girl drew a cover for Dengeki with the seha character "dreamcast" with a human sonic dressed like a rebellious Japanese high schooler, and human tails with ponytails and wearing a schoolgirl uniform.
The artwork looks really good check it out.
Deep dive on World War Blue 🙏
This was awesome, i had no idea world war blue was a thing or the fleetway comic was. Glad i learned something new!
I cannot believe they made a manga and anime of the Console Wars!
And thanks to this video, i now know about its existence!
Look man I don't want you to suffer Watching This World War Blue
This one may be from sega but I’m counting it as a fun easter egg. In the music video Shaggy ball z vs One Jump Man there’s a character in the audience who looks a lot like a human version of Tangle the lemur from the idw comics.
I hope you do that deep dive into the World War Blue manga because I've only seen people talk about the anime, and the manga clearly has more content since it's longer.
I hear uts on the internet archive if you want to check it out.
He looks like Nate Wright from Big Nate
My older sister says he looks like Doug Funnie from an old cartoon called Doug, which used to be on Nickelodeon.
Virtua Fighter’s Jacky Bryant exudes major Sonic energy, he’s an honorary human Sonic in my eyes
Good stuff bro
Even if the manga is bad it should still be funny
This was such a fun topic. But you have to talk about all of the human sonic fan art now… 😅
I watched this years ago and the references flew over my head. Like all of them.
ALL
When did World War Blue come out, because let's all remind ourselves that "If you have time to worry, then run" is something that Sonic said to Elise so if this manga came up with it first that's kinda wild
1:29 It's a Russian name
i'll never be able to hear the tetris song the same again
Woah, i truly forgot about World War Blue.
7:42 Why does Cream remind me of Ula from "Hands Up!" by Joel Guerra?
6:00 let's say Tails decked him out for testing purposes
naaaaaah man my facial expression went for happy to true dread when I saw what they did to my boy opa opa in that blue world anime
+any opa opa fans out there, anyone?
WELCOME TO ELTINGVILLE MENTION 🫵🏽
Uekawa version of sonic honestly sooo cute
5:40 it doesnt look like an antenna on his shoe. It looks like a switch where he can turn on and off his super speed shoes
Well, Thank You for... revealing us this..
i think? 😅
Amazing video 👍
I decided to look into World War Blue in Japanese, and it turns out it's not even a shonen manga. It's actually a seinen web comic, and someone on Wikipedia just lied that it was shonen
That show Sounds interesting I wouldn't mind knowing more
As someone that has read some of the World War Blue manga, I promise the Manga is actually pretty solid for the most part.
My idea for a human sonic
Would just be either teen gohan from dbz with sonics hairstyle or
If anyones ever played the world ends with you
Basically him as a human in that style ( not the anime but the game)
Or megaman zero (gba) style
So this is a thing actually...
There’s somethings not meant to be seen with the human eyes and this is definitely one of them 😵😵😵😵😵
5:39 Holy cow! I just noticed that he has an Oran section ID symbol on his sleeve, what a neat little detail and nod to Phantasy Star Online 1.
that was a fun video. thanks
"It's okay human Sonic can't hurt you" Human Sonic:
If you're looking for something like World War Blue but better, watch Drifters.
Fear.
OMG i was looking for World War Blue for years!
The antennas on the nicer looking human sonic designs shoes are connected to the controller in his hand since he's human he had to adopt tails technology to use the controller to make his shoes run fast.
i remember that ep of sonic the comic back in the 90s,i remember reading it as a little kid thinking eww wtf they done to him? turns out it was just a illusion made up by robotnick lol
I forgot about world war blue I never watched it but if you did the manga I’d def watch
What about the people who seemed to be human versions of team Sonic in the Sonic Superstars commercial?
Rodea has a main character similar to Sonic, which is also made by Yuji
You forgot clamp in wonderland
fleetway sonic the human desgin look ulgy.
yuji uekawa sonic the human desgin looks way better.
You should definitely read the manga, it's definitely a lot better
10:43
Naw, the fucking 06 reference, let’s go!!!
Subbing for that deep dive video on the console wars manga
why do i remember this for some reason 😭
10:29 I think I see her as Elise from Sonic 06
id love to see a vid on ww blue
With Gender Bend, I like Humanization for design challenge and should be picture only. My definition is: translating what make the character into human form.
What I hate is when they preserve animal features when they are supposed to be human!
5:02 This design is too detail to capture Sonic's simple design 5:28 Ha, that's explain!
7:02 The Delphino runner from Sunshine of Sonic 7:40 Go go Sonic-Man!
You forgot another uekawa human sonic with hatsune miku
Welp, now I NEED to watch World War Blue.
10:32 tetris more like TI- you know where im going
If the guy from the Tokyo Game Show magazine isn't Human Sonic, then i kinda imagine that Human Sonic in Sonic Destruction would look more like Leo Craig from Balan Wonderworld, but with black hair (Like the Comic Sonic, A.K.A. Erin) instead of blonde. That way it'd make him look like something in-between Comic Sonic, A.K.A. Erin, and the "Human Sonic" from the Tokyo Game Show magazine. Leo Craig has similar hairstyle to Sonic, and his blue bandana might be a reference to the fact he looks like Sonic but he isn't him. Imagine Leo Craig from Balan Wonderworld dyeing his hair red, wearing gothic clothes, smoking a cigarette, and having reptilian eyes. 🤣
1:08 is that big chungus sonic on the left 😭?
I want you to do a deep dive on the manga.
Fleetway human Sonic looks like a Streets of Rage punk.
2:29 they did him so dirty why is he bald and wrinkly
These human designs for Sonic and Tails are bad.
OK neat video Squid but.
1. World War Blue is a hentai disguise as a shōnen
2. said manga and it's "Gear" character shouldn't count any way (like you said with Sonic Man not being a human Sonic) as it's not endorsed by Sega and it's "using medieval warfare as a allegory for the Sega and Nintendo console wars" is just the author's lame excuse to hide the fact he put a hentai manga in a shōnen magazine (Neptunia is a better console wars parody anyway)
How thin is the disguise, on a scale of Seven Deadly Sins to Fairy Tail
@@DarkLink1996. Dude I don't know that much about those two but from what I got, they are more so a case of them having medium amount of fan service while WWB is more so a case of a author LITERALLY putting his bad hentai manga in a (lesser known) shōnen magazine
I wish we got that sonic man issue.
11:08 It seems that the Smash bias is a thing even in the most random places, I guess. Lol
A deep dive on world war blue would be fun. Do it so I don’t have to!!!
Bro, sorry but you were praising the art and design of that first one (And that Tails with ""potential" LMAO) And then claiming that the anime one only took blue from Sonic? Come on give it some credit, the tan arms and torso being shown in a creative way, similar to the first example but done better, the gloves are re-contextualized as hand wraps, how is that not cool? And a shounen protagonist fits Sonic very well. I might check this anime out now, sounds fun as hell.
My favorite console the segua thinking at night cast
Anthropomorphic non-earth animals are very different from feral earth animals.
Dayum Opa Opa looking fire in the anime
0:59 By GOD, is that hideous!
The first one just looks like Legion
1:29 My name is Ilya which is russian name Илья
So NO this is NOT Just letters
World War Blues artist draws Hentai lol
@@ThundagaMage and World War Blue is hentai itself
IT IS CALLED GIJINKA.
RISE FOR GIJINKA.
Ironically enough alot of shounen have nudity
Why did the kill off Tails in WWB? If they wanted to kill someone to give Sonic motivation to fight Nintendo. Wouldn't Sonic's father, the Alex Kidd character be better? It would also work as another real life parallel, Mario defeating Alex Kidd, so Sonic steps forward in his place.
About the segment World War Blue, I didn't read their mangas either since this is the first I'm hearing of it, but the manga should always be better than the actual anime
Edit: I accidentally said the manga was a comic so I fixed that, thank god I noticed that, I promise I'm cultured!
1:55 Is that G1 Sideswipe/Red Alert on the top of the computer?
Holy shit i think it is
Soooo... World War Blue is basicly a cosplayers anime? Neat😜
Sonic should be black
Human Sonic? i think John Travolta used to come close... Vegeta is the Saiyan Sonic to me