I've recently got back into both the comics and the SatAm show. Now, it doesn't matter to me if Sonic SatAM has nothing to do with the video games, it was a very special TV series. I love playing the games and all, but half the video games I got into (with the exception of Mega Man... I liked the games prior) were due to the cartoon series. And while some of them were fun, Sonic SatAm was special. They made a whole universe for the character away from the video games. I did some research into all the shows... Sonic X and AOSTH are the most accurate to the games (X being an adaption of the Sonic Adventures series, AOSTH making allusions to the game and using some villains seen in the game as recurring bad guys)... Sonic Underground at least managed to get the story from Sonic 3 straight when they introduced Knuckles... SatAm does its own thing... and it's one of the few times the material is superior because of it. Too bad Double Dragon turning into Power Rangers wasn't.Oh the Sonic proper and Sonic Universe comic book line is amazing to me. One of the few comic series I still get. I have no clue how any real Sonic fan could dismiss them or not be into them. The art, colors, flow, action is all amazing and it beautifully ties
SatAM with the game canon and Archy Sonic canon. I mean they made Bean, Bark and Fang the Sniper main characters who fight Free Sonic Racer characters while the fate of the world hangs in the balance of the regular Sonic gang and the Archie-SatAM verse. Just love it. I know you've eluded to crazy sides of Sonic fans online, thankfully never saw that.
I've always been a bigger Mario fan, technically... I wish Nintendo wasn't so bug in the butt about this sort of thing. I liked the Valliant comic line, but I really think they need to take a cue from Sonic and Mega Man and do a new arc by arc based comic book.
Sometimes you'll find something on Youtube or Dailymotion... I got through the entire 1980's Kinnikuman series raw in a matter of weeks (due only out of fear it would be taken down)... and then I had to watch Muteking in raw Italian. Sometimes you'll find something good, sometimes you won't. I want to see the stuff that they can't market in the US because the supposed typical anime fan has a mortal fear of seeing something that isn't digitally animated and clean looking. And even then, they only like the mainstreamy stuff. I still think there's bullocks excuse for not releasing any version of Dr. Slump over here (we got the manga though)... and no one fan subs that. I saw one off the first episode and never anything again. I guess people here only care about Akira Toryama when it's Dragon Ball z.Yeah that's tough if you can't find digital uploads or downloads of old obscure anime you like. I thought everything by now was online or put on dvd!
But you don't know how many of these shows I find by accident, and getting bored and watching theme song uploads.