u/Michael_The_Madlad

I loved playing as Fang and Eggman, since they didn't have to fight any of the tedious bosses, making them the definitive playthroughs of the game!

Quite recently, someone has just confirmed that Fox McCloud's Japanese voice actor from The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, that being Eiji Takeuchi, is also Fox's new Japanese voice actor for the Star Fox 64 remaster, and presumably any future games in the series going forward.

(A similar case happened in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, where Kōji Takeda voiced Donkey Kong in the Japanese version of the film, and has since succeeded Takashi Nagasako as the voice actor for Donkey Kong starting from Mario Kart World.)

Quite interesting, since I immediately noticed that in the update notes, and it does pose some interesting implications for other languages like the heavily-requested Brazilian Portuguese, Latin American Spanish, and Korean voice-overs to be implemented in the Sonic games going forward.

(I also need someone to research the updated credits list of this game, and see how many of the new Mandarin Chinese voice actors are returning from prior Sonic series projects like the film series and other TV shows like Sonic Prime.)

Note that this is actually a photoshop between two separate images:

https://xcancel.com/Divadula_K/status/2061088168657711120

https://xcancel.com/Divadula_K/status/2061380823245603180

It's just funny to me that out of all of the roles she's had across the years, Blaze is somehow her most consistent, and probably the one role she's had the most passion for if she is somehow still voicing her from 2005's Sonic Rush all the way up to 2025's Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds. (And mind you, the Sonic series already has a pretty small and niche following in Japan, practically on par with a small indie game.)

Presumably, after she left Production Ace, most of her roles were sort of phased out, with Irina Akulov in Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition notably reusing Takamori's old lines from the original Wii U game, but any new lines for Definitive Edition had to be recorded by Ami Matsushima.

Meanwhile, she is somehow still involved with the Sonic series, as her lines in Sonic Generations weren't replaced in the 2024 remaster, compared to Chikao Ōtsuka's voice lines as Dr. Eggman being replaced by Kotaro Nakamura. She's just credited under the new pseudonym of Rei Takamori starting with Sonic X Shadow Generations, likely as a result of her retiring from Production Ace.

I really should have started this way sooner, and if I cannot get any advice or tips, I don't know where to go. It's probably easier to just redraw concept sketches or edit a sprite at this point.

Even just my idea of trying to represent her VTuber identities in the artwork just doesn't seem feasible, or even worth it, and I should probably just give up here if it's just unfeasible. Maybe someone more skilled can pick up the idea from me.

Obviously, this is just an inherent problem with the Sonic film series taking place in a live action setting, and it got really bad in the Knuckles Series.

I'd say that DC X Sonic got its pass from SEGA to include human characters, as the only humans in the comic are either the recognizable Justice League superheroes and other assorted DC characters, some incidental G.U.N. soldiers as part of Shadow's flashback, and a few supporting human characters from Sonic Unleashed present in front of the Daily Planet, with some Avatars from Sonic Forces also in the same panel.

I guess Sonic and the Blade of Courage having plenty of new human characters could also be brought up as a counter-argument, but I would just chalk that up to a variety of different factors; most notably, it's Sonic's focus story after the previous manga focused on Shadow, and doesn't include a bunch of returning characters like Tails, Shadow, and Eggman until later on. Plus, the manga definitely feels like it's meant to welcome in newcomers to the brand, especially given how niche it is in Japan.