Hokago Table Talk ✝️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧⚡️⚪️

The amount of posts I've seen from Japanese Sonic fans, expressing their outright disdain over the removal of Amy's love for Sonic in the bio....puts such a relieving smile on my face. Not only did I rarely see any Japanese fans of Sonic online at all up until this point(because to my knowledge, the franchise isn't popular in Japan), but to see them all collectively come together to passionately spread the same message to SEGA is mind-blowing. This is an event I've never seen before. For those of you who aren't aware of me, Sonic The Hedgehog is the franchise that brought me into gaming. Its the closest franchise to my heart, and I've been expressing this exact same message about Amy Rose for years now. Amy Rose is a wonderful character that I loved ever since I first played Sonic Heroes(my very first Sonic game) on my PS2. I also really enjoyed her presence in the anime, Sonic X! And one of the very reasons I loved her character was her love and devotion to Sonic. Her willingness to challenge Sonic by chasing him all around the world to earn his affection added so much light and charm to her character that no one else in the Sonic Universe could replicate. But over the course of the last 10 years, this been this growing fundamental misunderstanding of Amy's character(typically among the western side of the fanbase) by falsely claiming that Amy's love for Sonic was "all that there was to her character", when that was never the case. And on top of that, when Frontiers came out, many tried to label this removal of her love as "progression" as if Amy(for whatever reason) is *required* to move on from Sonic in order to grow as a character. As if it was impossible for Amy to be a strong, independent, female character as long as her motivation is still tied to the boy she likes. There's hundreds of characters in fiction who share their love with the world. There's hundreds who are nurturing and caring. But Amy's love for Sonic was what made her special. That was what made her iconic. That was what made her stand out amongst every other character in fiction who shared the rest of her character traits. This is not something to be ashamed about. It was a beautiful aspect of her character that should be preserved and protected. I'm not sure how possible this is at this point in the modern era, but my truest desire is to see Amy(as well as every other character) return to who she really is back in during the era of 1998 to 2009. This is was the real Amy Rose, and nothing would make me happier than to see her finally return to who she really is, instead of a western writer's false impetration of her.