{"id":123295,"date":"2022-03-26T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-129403"},"modified":"2022-03-26T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T04:05:00","slug":"random-sonic-fans-are-going-crazy-about-a-mystery-character-with-pink-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/26\/random-sonic-fans-are-going-crazy-about-a-mystery-character-with-pink-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Sonic Fans Are Going Crazy About A Mystery Character With Pink Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1a83cc0ef8655\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1a83cc0ef8655\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Sonic Frontiers\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1a83cc0ef8655\/sonic-frontiers.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1a83cc0ef8655\/sonic-frontiers.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Sonic Frontiers\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em>Image: SEGA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Later this year, Sega is releasing <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/sonic_frontiers\">Sonic Frontiers<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; a brand new mainline entry in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mastersystem\/sonic_the_hedgehog\">Sonic the Hedgehog<\/a><\/strong> video game series.<\/p>\n<p>Details are still quite scarce, but we do know some things&#8230;like how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/12\/introducing-sonic-frontiers-arriving-on-nintendo-switch-holiday-2022\">game&#8217;s narrative is being handled by Ian Flynn<\/a> &#8211; the head writer of IDW&#8217;s current <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mastersystem\/sonic_the_hedgehog\">Sonic the Hedgehog<\/a><\/strong> comic.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in the latest development, Sonic fans have become fixated with a pink-haired human-like character that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/03\/tailstube-first-ep-now-live-the-new-vtuber-show-starring-sonics-sidekick\">shown in during the first episode of TailsTube yesterday<\/a>. And some even seem to think it&#8217;s got something to do with the upcoming game.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KnowingSmile?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KnowingSmile<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Ian Flynn (@IanFlynnBKC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanFlynnBKC\/status\/1507048882466918406?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Apart from Ian Flynn who responded with the hashtag &#8220;knowing smile&#8221;, it&#8217;s got to the stage now where even the creative director of Sonic the Hedgehog, Kazuyuki Hoshino, has responded to fan art of the character.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What a quick job <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p2XYiLLar8\">https:\/\/t.co\/p2XYiLLar8<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Kazuyuki Hoshino (@KazuyukiHoshino) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KazuyukiHoshino\/status\/1507536022477111297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>You can see this mystery character shown during the first episode of TailsTube at around the 2-minute mark:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"Nmzc8L8zTBk\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">the Sonic series could very well be getting another &#8220;semi-realistic female deuteragonist&#8221; in Frontiers, the first of whom appeared in 06 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XOe8zC26HY\">pic.twitter.com\/XOe8zC26HY<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Triple-Q (@TripleKyun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TripleKyun\/status\/1507040572204531712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>What do you make of all of this? Do you think Sega just teased a new character for Sonic Frontiers? Or is it for something else? <em>Share your own thoughts and theories down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: SEGA Later this year, Sega is releasing Sonic Frontiers &#8211; a brand new mainline entry in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series. 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