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I recently was watching the 1990s series Nadia: Secret of Blue Water, and, like many videogame franchises, it seems as though Sonic even gives nods to anime. Besides certain characters in the plot, something was urking me as the show reached its climax, and after a while I realized the show was following a similar trajectory to SA2's plot.

Note: Spoilers for anyone who hasnt seen this anime.


The enemy appears across the planet via projection telling the people to surrender to their ruling.


This ship is called Red Noah, which serves as Noah's ARK within the storyline. It also happens to be equipped with an extremely powerful laser. Here the villain demonstrates the cannons ability by shooting the laser around the planet and blowing a place up, telling the people that they have a finite time to surrender before they start blowing cities up. The ship is powered by magical crystals of immense power called The Blue Water.


The characters have a stand off with the main bad guy in this scene inside Red Noah. This scene very vaguely has commonalities with the scene where Eggman has a standoff with Amy, Tails, and Sonic on the bridge.


After defeating the villain, Red Noah is now on a crash course for earth.





Captain Nemo sacrifices himself and the ship.







There is an introspective scene with very similar tone (even musically) to SA2s ending where they honor Nemo's sacrifice and talk about going back home to Earth.

Scene in question: (jump to 21:30)


Other misc unrelated facts about the show:
*The protaganist Jean shares a lot in common with Tails, being a quirky boy inventor who works on planes
*The Egyptian trope is also present in SA2, and the center of the Ark is powered by ancient technology.
*The show coincidentally was advertised on the Sonic OVA (at least the VHS release I had growing up)

I seem to be finding more parallels as I go back through it. I'm curious what you guys think.

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Hey guys, we're trying to start up a radio show project here and we want you to check us out! Hosted by Peter O'Hanlon (Zorbtech Productions), Skyler King (Metallic Hoedown, Ben Kalough), and Shadix (SAGE) join you for a new podcasting experience covering the Sonic community and SEGA as a whole.

During our show we'll also be operating an IRC chatroom to get listener feedback and interactivity:
irc.badnik.net
#phantasyzone

We'll be airing our first test episode on Saturday at 7PMEST \ 12AM GMT. You can listen at http://www.radiosega.net. We'll also have episodes online post-show, however with the interactivity we're planning there's definitely alot you can miss with the live show! You should come check it out!

Art by: darkfailure

Hopefully this is the appropriate board for this!

http://www.sagexpo.org

DISCLAIMER: The Sonic Amateur Games Expo, or SAGE, is not affiliated with SEGA in any way, shape, or form. This event is entirely driven by fans. Sonic the Hedgehog is property of SEGA.

We'll be interviewing Naoto Ohshima as a way to wrap up SAGE on a high note. 8:45PM EST over SAGECAST. Besides his work at his own studio, Artoon, which is now AQ Interactive, he is also known for being the director of NiGHTS into Dreams, Burning Rangers, and Sonic CD, the original character designer of Sonic the Hedgehog, and is one of the founders of the franchise alongside Yuji Naka and Hirokazu Yasuhara.



Get your questions ready, we'll be in the IRC taking questions and our lovely translator Sterling Diesel will help relay messages to him and back.

IRC Details:

Server: irc.rizon.net
Channel: #sagexpo

He also left this little picture for you guys!


Due to this event we are going to move the Badnik Contest Results featuring Mike Pollock to 10PMEST.

As you may know Tabitha Fair did the track Fly into Freedom and the vocals on the various Rouge tracks in SA2. She's playing a show up in New York if any of you are around there!

Her Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/tabithafair

Date: January 11th
Time: 9PM - 10PM EST

Location:
Rockwood Music Hall
196 Allen Street
New York, NY 10002

I got the notification via message so she'll probably post more show details soon. No idea what the covers going to be.

http://sega-memories.blogspot.com/2009/05/...sguised-as.html

I just saw this today, I'm sure it was discovered before, but I never felt so cool being a Sonic fan than I did when I watched this. Damn, I really wish I could be where I am age-wise right now 20 years ago. SURPRISING SECRET GUYS SONIC AND KNUCKLES IS BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE!

If you pause when they tour inside the STI building you can see some sketches of Tiara Boobowski and some computer things that look like unused level concepts for Sonic 3.

Plus holy crap, Howard Drossin looks SO different nowadays. I barely recognized him with his little punky, hip rock attire haha. I think Chris Senn is talked to as well, I can see him but theres too much vcr noise to see all the little things describing him.