Do you know if Sonic and his friends are characterized differently in English and Japanese?
- The Japanese pronoun that Sonic, Knuckles, Metal Sonic, Silver, Vector and Jet use in speech is “Ore”, which is masculine and informal. In Sonic’s case, he uses “Ore” in all of his forms i.e Darkspine, Werehog etc. Jet and Knuckles are a touch more arrogant as they also use “Ore-sama”. Which indicates a large degree of self-reverence.
- The Japanese pronoun that Tails, Shadow, Big, Mephiles and Charmy use is “Boku”. Which is masculine. Lacks the “bluntness”of “Ore”.
- Amy, Wave and Rouge use the pronoun “Atashi”. Which is feminine and casual.
- Dr Eggman uses the pronoun “Washi”. Which is often used by old men.
- Cream, Blaze, Eggman Nega, Princess Elise, Shahra as well as Omega use “Watashi”. Which is gender-neutral and polite.
- Gamma is notable in that he’s the only Sonic character I know of whose pronoun changes. He used “Watashi” before his rebellion, “Boku” after.
- Emerl is unique in that he picks-up the pronouns of the characters who “raise” him. Which lends a sort of dimension to his character growth. Obviously lost in the English translation.
- Whenever Amy get lovey-dovey, JP!Sonic tends to act along the lines of being somewhat weirded-out and “Oh no here we go again” in an exasperated way. There is a huge tonal difference between the JP version of this cutscene and the English one - ENG!Sonic talks to Amy rather contemptuously, asking how she got there, JP!Sonic is not.
- JP!Sonic is sort of a nicknamer. Often refers to people in a casual sort of way. For instance, he calls Knuckles “Nakko” occasionally and refers to King Solomon in SatSR as “Old man”/”Gramps”. Neither of these are present in the English scripts.
- JP!Sonic is a Engrish-speaker. Obviously, ENG!Sonic does not exhibit this quirk.
- JP!Sonic in Colors doesn’t feel anywhere near as Flanderized and “dudebro” as ENG!Colors Sonic.
- One of the traits that Amy finds so appealing about Sonic is his heroic fighting spirit (”Kiai”). To my knowledge, this isn’t mentioned in English scripts or profiles.
…This is what comes to mind at the mo.
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