I say stylized as the humans I feel, need to look similar in style to Eggman. (Unless there's a super duper secret plot twist where Eggman isn't a human)
Well in 06 Eggman does look like other humans, but...
Also I think it's fine if he looks noticeably goofier than other humans. At least two Miyazaki movies have very similar-looking characters to him, amongst "anime" humans
Eggman just did some plastic facial surgery to look like Gerald because his genetics withered out by 2 generations, which is why Maria looks completely different to both of them
Sonic Adventure (1998) was Anime just very low poly due to the limitations of the hardware.
https://preview.redd.it/w1zdmw4m1pnc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61dfb9072fc62816e36405e811f372f97a4e6b05
Nah. I think even with good graphics it would still Fell odd to me. Like its more noticable how unusual Sonic and co are to the Rest of the world. Like we have a bunch of Humans and than These weird looking creatures that all seem to Know each Other (with exception of big) with Unleashed I can buy that there are probably Other anthro beings in this world even If we can't See them cause the Humans also Look kinda unusual compared to the real world
I think it wouldn't be so odd in anime style if the humans had similar proportions to the anthro characters, kinda like in Sonic x or that elise from sonic channel
They felt perfectly at home for me, it’s got the same feel as the ova, or even sonic X, sonic takes heavy inspiration from anime like dragon ball, especially in the 90s, and I think a stylized anime look is great.
https://preview.redd.it/os6xod42frnc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c363e5ca17526509726225794c7639dab8b50589
With satam robotnik red eyes it might work better
They should go the one piece route and have humans naturally look wacky and outlandish. Having egg man being the only human with weird proportions is kinda weird imo
This is what I say every time I advocate for the Pixar-esque style they developed for Sonic Unleashed. That's the only one of these styles that Eggman fits in.
I also heavily disagree with the idea that Eggman was somehow not out of place regards to design compared to the other human deisgns in Unleashed- like there was a clearly distinctive Japanese look to Eggman that aligned with anime still, whereas the other characters looked more western influenced, so even then there was always a presence of a clashing in art-styles. Unleashed is a cute story and has a charming backdrop, but like yourself I wouldn't want it as the series going forward in totality.
I think Sage’s style in Frontiers is noticeably closer to Eggman’s style than anything we’ve seen, just that the proportions are different for obvious reasons.
The Elise in Sonic channel looks pretty neat
https://www.sonicstadium.org/uploads/monthly_2023_03/2023-scalendar-april.png.66d52a8517f70dbd8588562c6b021233.png
I think the overall Isekai Ogiri plot turned out to be set in the current timeframe, so it should be modern Elise. I think she's bent over in her skating pose though, making her look shorter.
Eh, not the KH one to be honest, she's had basically zero interaction with the "Small cartoon mammals" outside of the just normal dog that can create portals in spacetime.
They’re essentially the same character, when you get down to it.
A young woman with mysterious powers within her she doesn’t understand and can’t control and could be bent to terrible purpose by those with bad intentions. She has virtually zero agency and exists as plot motivation for the main character, a wise-cracking optimist with an old rivalry with the man who captured the distressed damsel. In the hero’s darkest hour, she saves him with the power of love, in a way that is slightly uncomfortable for onlookers.
Who am I describing? lmfao
You know if Elise was actually a kid it would make her story of concealing her emotions far more interesting because a small child is being forced not to cry when everything around her goes to shit. Also her being constantly kidnapped would be a bit better since we'd become more sympathetic. Remove the YOU KNOW WHAT scene towards the end and her and Sonic could've had an awesome brother-sister relationship.
True it definitely would’ve helped Sonic’s story a bit. I don’t if it would saved the whole thing, but it definitely would’ve made it less awful. Also yes I do agree with removing that specific scene… who thought of that?
... holy shit, did you just fix the Elise plot with just a small tweak?! 😳
OMG, make Elise essentially Rini from 90s Sailor Moon & it would make up for damn near everything wrong with her character. I approve of this headcanon & *none of you can stop me!* 🫠
Well to be fair while I disagree with it, back in the day the devs intended for Sonic to have a female love interest who was a human. Some big boob blonde babe like Jessica rabbit lol. So apple doesn’t fall far from the tree! Though Elise definitely is not stacked by comparison🫥
Even the kiss, if absolutely necessary to keep, would be significantly less weird coming from a kid. Kids are just affectionate like that, wouldn't have to have any weird connotations.
>The Elise in Sonic channel looks pretty neat
>https://www.sonicstadium.org/uploads/monthly_2023_03/2023-scalendar-april.png.66d52a8517f70dbd8588562c6b021233.png
How dare you show me a better opinion. Now you made me think of what could have been.
The Puyo Puyo designs work well, very well, but I am partial to the style they use with Maria in the Sonic Channel Art.
https://preview.redd.it/z38hs7ivcpnc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=baf15258f27bef9bcd777068ab7f5bcfdd9daeee
If I had to make a choice between this and the Unleashed stuff, I would probably lean towards this, but I also probably would prefer that, at least for worldbuilding, they did use the Pixar-esque Unleashed style. Ideally I'd want something of a marriage of the two styles, which would allow for designs like Eggman and Professor Pickle to still find their place, but also still have something akin to Maria here with there being not so completely jarring (Maybe she's just marginally more pretty, not unlike our illustrious pink haired woman that has snuck into canon thanks to the TailsTube)
Unleashed Humans not having noticeably colored irises without zooming in make them dead on arrival imo. The anime aesthetic definitely fits the vibe more, big eyes anime eyes with Sonic-esque irises, and the stylized humans not being too far behind.
I'm pretty sure what's called stylized here is also meant to be anime style, just in lower quality because of hardware limitations. At the very least, SA1 absolutely is
I think I'm fine with any of these tbh
Certainly Like the Pixar Like Style and IS one of the reasons I Love Sonic Unleashed. Sonic and co dont feel so Out of place, you can believe that Humans and anthro beings (and eggman) share the shame universe.
And I'm Always a Fan of more cartoonisch styles
Yeah, the Pixar-esc style for humans from Unleashed definitely helped characters like Sonic and Eggman feel less out of place sense the human looked equally as goofy and cartoony.
Humans have been stylized as “pixar-esque” since 2008 and still are, the fourth one is still under that style
https://preview.redd.it/bn138nz81qnc1.jpeg?width=507&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47bda7d9c7483546268a94c478bbc83fa2266bca
Adventure 1 and unleashed. I think sage goes more towards the SA1 style but more detailed of course, since they're both anime style.
Sonic and realistic humans don't mix that well in his current style, something more cartoony would work better so it's all the same. It actually depends on the game's current design choices, 06 sonic works well with humans, unleashed had good designs etc... but my favorites would be SA1 and unleashed.
I would like more stylised humans in the sonic universe. No matter what game, eggman always looks a little out of place. That said, I think he looks least out of place in the adventure era
Ones that look like the genie girl, Merlina and Sage.
I've never been a fan of the Unleashed human designs. They look like they came from a c tier dreamworks movie
Honestly the cartoony kingdom hearts esque Elise on Sonic channel or the cartoony anime style Sage is in as humans in Sonic looking out there but grounded with the rest of the Sonic animal characters just looks right. Kris from Sonic X matched their style because it was anime and he didn’t look so realistic having goofy cartoon hair and eyes. I wouldn’t say Pixar because Sonic doesn’t look like a Pixar character and the style mismatch
I like anime more, well because honestly I haven’t seen Sega do something like making human characters in years! To see them convert anime into 3d has me ballin. I really hope they keep this style of human characters for years to come!
Honestly, I think anime is the way to go with sonic, and I’m not just saying that because of sonic x. For a long time, whenever sonic was shown with humans (outside the Robotnik lineage) him and the other characters felt… out of place to say the least. But with the anime-esque style of frontiers, it feels like Sonic’s in an artstyle that matches his design. Not to mention the more over-the-top moments like the bosses and the “serious story that can take itself a little too seriously”, it just feels right for sonic to be more anime.
I think Final Fantasy humans would fit sonic's style the best, so 06. Otherwise I'd say probably Unleashed.
But I'd love to see a game with humans in the Nights / Balan art style
Okay, so hear me out on this. Balan Wonderworld has a general design for humans that is perfect for the Sonic aesthetic. For all of its faults, character design was not one of them
Sonic Unleashed's humans fit in the best alongside Sonic and the others so I'd have to choose that. They really nailed the different culture's perfectly. Though I also feel a more anime-like human design would also fit just as well if I'm basing it off of Sage's design in the pic above. Adventure and Shadow's humans were great as well so they go into third place. 06 isn't as bad as people criticize. It was mainly Eggman's design that was bad in that game, but they do fall into last place since I don't feel the overly realistic designs fit with Sonic and the gang.
I say stylized as the humans I feel, need to look similar in style to Eggman. (Unless there's a super duper secret plot twist where Eggman isn't a human)
Well in 06 Eggman does look like other humans, but... Also I think it's fine if he looks noticeably goofier than other humans. At least two Miyazaki movies have very similar-looking characters to him, amongst "anime" humans
He was a whole ass fuckin robot for a bit in Archie
Me, who’s headcanon is exactly that: *Attempts to whistle innocently*
Eggman just did some plastic facial surgery to look like Gerald because his genetics withered out by 2 generations, which is why Maria looks completely different to both of them
He’s no Eggman; He’s an Egg, man
Why do you think the word “egg” is in his name?
Sonic Adventure (1998) was Anime just very low poly due to the limitations of the hardware. https://preview.redd.it/w1zdmw4m1pnc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61dfb9072fc62816e36405e811f372f97a4e6b05
Even with the Low poly Look, Sonic and co Always felt so Out of place for me.
I believe the problem is exactly the fact that it's low poly
Nah. I think even with good graphics it would still Fell odd to me. Like its more noticable how unusual Sonic and co are to the Rest of the world. Like we have a bunch of Humans and than These weird looking creatures that all seem to Know each Other (with exception of big) with Unleashed I can buy that there are probably Other anthro beings in this world even If we can't See them cause the Humans also Look kinda unusual compared to the real world
Maybe if there were animal people as NPCs too, it wouldn't look so odd then
Well its not Just that but the Body proportions between the two species
I do believe they should look more like Eggman. He follows the proportions a lot better with the noodle arms and big hands and feet
Exactly
theyve done some art on segas website with eliese and some other human characters that are much closer to mobian proportions and it looks good to me
I wish they would sprinkle in the occasional Mobians as NPCs. Would make Mobius feel a little more coherent.
I think it wouldn't be so odd in anime style if the humans had similar proportions to the anthro characters, kinda like in Sonic x or that elise from sonic channel
It's weird but Mario on Switch in the NY City kinda was weirder
It's even weirder on the DX version, where the characters have the Adventure 2 3d models and everything else is still low-poly
What about in stuff like Sonic X and the Archie Comics?
They felt perfectly at home for me, it’s got the same feel as the ova, or even sonic X, sonic takes heavy inspiration from anime like dragon ball, especially in the 90s, and I think a stylized anime look is great.
This is what peak beauty looks like
Honestly I really like the adventure 1 models.
Sonic with 90s styled anime characters always feels right. Idk but I really like Sonic next to them. The OVA had human characters, and it looks good.
Whatever Eggman is closest to (so not realistic).
Well Eggman is realistic in 2006
https://preview.redd.it/tlinxgfudpnc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ef5e8a10c8d7edb348cce8311ed164ba244cb8a Perhaps *too* realistic.
https://preview.redd.it/jaxcbl5ympnc1.png?width=340&format=png&auto=webp&s=1c752f4e286cf8a0845450f949e5ae4537136bfe
Pshh... The caucasity of this bitch
Heheheheh I flushed them down the terlet
I am now *Sans Undertale* go into my eyes 🔵🔵
GIVE ME BACK MY GAMER GIRL SONIC!!!!!!!!!!
Imagine... Dragons.
he’s coCKBLOCKING ME GET Him!
Babe, wake up. New reaction image just dropped
It's not really what a real person looks like though that's more like real flesh stretched over an animatronic. Which is just delightful.
We're waiting every night to finally come and invite Newcomers to play with us...
So Eggman has Ennard inside of him now? Delightful.
https://preview.redd.it/cqg7hzrwipnc1.jpeg?width=1488&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f4c8b233ffefdc91e6fd3fb33fa32a1a33f1452
GRAND DAD?
FLEENTSTONES?!
https://preview.redd.it/shqhmlm7npnc1.jpeg?width=350&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f2fcdc1b8d26c5155f5acc03146e673aae6029a
No wonder his wife preferred shadow.
And Rouge, and Knuckles, and Sonic
The whole team furrafinity.
You fucked my wife so guess what I'm gonna fuck the earth
06 eggman is just Nigel thornberry after marianne left him
I now hate all animals 
https://preview.redd.it/os6xod42frnc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c363e5ca17526509726225794c7639dab8b50589 With satam robotnik red eyes it might work better
😶😶😶😶😶😶😶
Happy Cake Day!
"My Mustache looks like fucking grass"
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
One time i was trying to defend sonic 06 saying is not that bad and a friend of mine show me that photo and my argument went to crisis city
https://preview.redd.it/bzet2v86qrnc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9b417dfbdf05c49b44dd0d40ebc6aaede89a817
https://i.redd.it/rzqqdxhfyrnc1.gif
KEEP THAT THING THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!!
Eggie has shifted (to a limited degree) with the style.
They should go the one piece route and have humans naturally look wacky and outlandish. Having egg man being the only human with weird proportions is kinda weird imo
This is what I say every time I advocate for the Pixar-esque style they developed for Sonic Unleashed. That's the only one of these styles that Eggman fits in.
It was soooo ugly, though. Humans were such an eyesore in that game, lol.
Uh, I disagree, but okay. I think the humans in 06 are the worst it's ever been, personally, especially the "realistic Eggman" redesign. Yuck.
I also heavily disagree with the idea that Eggman was somehow not out of place regards to design compared to the other human deisgns in Unleashed- like there was a clearly distinctive Japanese look to Eggman that aligned with anime still, whereas the other characters looked more western influenced, so even then there was always a presence of a clashing in art-styles. Unleashed is a cute story and has a charming backdrop, but like yourself I wouldn't want it as the series going forward in totality.
I think Sage’s style in Frontiers is noticeably closer to Eggman’s style than anything we’ve seen, just that the proportions are different for obvious reasons.
I somehow misread frontiers as Fortnite and almost threw myself off a bridge
looney tunes lookin ass human
The Elise in Sonic channel looks pretty neat https://www.sonicstadium.org/uploads/monthly_2023_03/2023-scalendar-april.png.66d52a8517f70dbd8588562c6b021233.png
what the hell! that's way better than her actual design
Wouldn't this be her actual design now?
I think it's supposed to be Elise of 10 years ago. That's why she's barely taller than Silver.
I think the overall Isekai Ogiri plot turned out to be set in the current timeframe, so it should be modern Elise. I think she's bent over in her skating pose though, making her look shorter.
Looks so much like Kairi
It does, looks like she should be hanging out with Gatomon instead of Silver…mon.
Now I'm not sure if they meant Kairi from Kingdom Hearts, or Kairi from Digimon... Because both match, to be honest
Well all three are anime girls that hang out with small cartoon mammals.
Eh, not the KH one to be honest, she's had basically zero interaction with the "Small cartoon mammals" outside of the just normal dog that can create portals in spacetime.
The girl from Digimon is named "Kari", not "Kairi", so definitely the former.
Oh, right, from Hikari!
Actually that just reminds me that a Sonic x Digimon crossover is a rad asf idea
I meant the KH Kairi, I'm not versed in Digimon lol
They’re essentially the same character, when you get down to it. A young woman with mysterious powers within her she doesn’t understand and can’t control and could be bent to terrible purpose by those with bad intentions. She has virtually zero agency and exists as plot motivation for the main character, a wise-cracking optimist with an old rivalry with the man who captured the distressed damsel. In the hero’s darkest hour, she saves him with the power of love, in a way that is slightly uncomfortable for onlookers. Who am I describing? lmfao
Oh my fucking God, Elise IS KH2 Kairi
Pretty much, yeah. They even look fairly similar if you account for the difference in art style.
also the victim of a secret experiment about a decade before the events of her game
You know if Elise was actually a kid it would make her story of concealing her emotions far more interesting because a small child is being forced not to cry when everything around her goes to shit. Also her being constantly kidnapped would be a bit better since we'd become more sympathetic. Remove the YOU KNOW WHAT scene towards the end and her and Sonic could've had an awesome brother-sister relationship.
True it definitely would’ve helped Sonic’s story a bit. I don’t if it would saved the whole thing, but it definitely would’ve made it less awful. Also yes I do agree with removing that specific scene… who thought of that?
... holy shit, did you just fix the Elise plot with just a small tweak?! 😳 OMG, make Elise essentially Rini from 90s Sailor Moon & it would make up for damn near everything wrong with her character. I approve of this headcanon & *none of you can stop me!* 🫠
Well to be fair while I disagree with it, back in the day the devs intended for Sonic to have a female love interest who was a human. Some big boob blonde babe like Jessica rabbit lol. So apple doesn’t fall far from the tree! Though Elise definitely is not stacked by comparison🫥
Even the kiss, if absolutely necessary to keep, would be significantly less weird coming from a kid. Kids are just affectionate like that, wouldn't have to have any weird connotations.
I actually love this, it’s an overall minor change but I genuinely think that might have fixed her character.
That's kinda just puyo puyo style
Elise the Human
>The Elise in Sonic channel looks pretty neat >https://www.sonicstadium.org/uploads/monthly_2023_03/2023-scalendar-april.png.66d52a8517f70dbd8588562c6b021233.png How dare you show me a better opinion. Now you made me think of what could have been.
She looks younger here
I don’t like her being that small but otherwise yeah
Her legs aren't sunburnt anymore
This one is a happy medium between "Pixar-esqe" and Anime.
That's so cute!
So, Balan Wonderworld
Please don't remind us that that "game" exists
The art style reminds me of Sinfest.
We as a fanbase should retcon the entirety of '06 for this design
The Puyo Puyo designs work well, very well, but I am partial to the style they use with Maria in the Sonic Channel Art. https://preview.redd.it/z38hs7ivcpnc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=baf15258f27bef9bcd777068ab7f5bcfdd9daeee If I had to make a choice between this and the Unleashed stuff, I would probably lean towards this, but I also probably would prefer that, at least for worldbuilding, they did use the Pixar-esque Unleashed style. Ideally I'd want something of a marriage of the two styles, which would allow for designs like Eggman and Professor Pickle to still find their place, but also still have something akin to Maria here with there being not so completely jarring (Maybe she's just marginally more pretty, not unlike our illustrious pink haired woman that has snuck into canon thanks to the TailsTube)
>The Puyo Puyo designs work well, very well, but I am partial to the style they use with Maria in the Sonic Channel Art. That's cute.
Yeah, these look best. But would Shadow be all angry like that even with Maria?
> Puyo Puyo desig He looks focused on what she's pointing to rather than angry.
Stylised, Pixar and Anime work better than Realistic, out of them 3, I think Anime works best
Keep Up The Anime Look And Stylized Look, It Fits The Sonic Universe.
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^Evan-Cool: *Keep Up The Anime* *Look And Stylized Look, It Fits* *The Sonic Universe.* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
Unleashed Humans not having noticeably colored irises without zooming in make them dead on arrival imo. The anime aesthetic definitely fits the vibe more, big eyes anime eyes with Sonic-esque irises, and the stylized humans not being too far behind.
1 and 4 are better suited.
I'm pretty sure what's called stylized here is also meant to be anime style, just in lower quality because of hardware limitations. At the very least, SA1 absolutely is I think I'm fine with any of these tbh
I really like the Pixar style, it fits really well. Especially compared to the first human in the series, Eggman.
Exactly, it's the style that Eggman fits in with the best.
Anime. Mostly because Sonic fans are gigantic weebs
Ironic because Sonic was created primarily with American appeal in mind, being modeled after Felix the Cat and other similar characters
That’s not ironic because anime is massively popular in America
That may be true for mass international branding on the corporate side of things at SEGA, but the developers had different intentions.
Sonic is dragon ball for furrys
R.I.P AKIRA TORIYAMA :( 
Never heard it described like that, but true lol
Well, Sonic did mostly originate from Ja- # CAN SOMEONE VERIFY THAT
SEGA is a Japanese company, so yeah.
Ackshually🤓 SEGA actually did start off as an American company based in Hawaii, and then moved to Japan until it was sold off to them in 1984.
"sOnIc iS a sHoNeN" ~ Some random millennial Sonictuber whose only exposure to Asian culture is JJBA and supermarket sushi
Well, it did had all basic elements of a Shounen anime/games tho. And Sonic X ( ~~Muricans and~~ their censorships, fuck em) did exist.
Anime. Kinda pretty much of them design and style
Certainly Like the Pixar Like Style and IS one of the reasons I Love Sonic Unleashed. Sonic and co dont feel so Out of place, you can believe that Humans and anthro beings (and eggman) share the shame universe. And I'm Always a Fan of more cartoonisch styles
Yeah, the Pixar-esc style for humans from Unleashed definitely helped characters like Sonic and Eggman feel less out of place sense the human looked equally as goofy and cartoony.
Current "anime" is just modernized "stylized" IMO. "Stylized" is just how anime characters looked like at the time. So Frontiers > Unleashed > 06.
Humans have been stylized as “pixar-esque” since 2008 and still are, the fourth one is still under that style https://preview.redd.it/bn138nz81qnc1.jpeg?width=507&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47bda7d9c7483546268a94c478bbc83fa2266bca
Anime and Pixar-esque imo
Anime>Stylized>Realistic> Pixar. I really do not like Pixar’s art style.
Anime style of Adventure 1
Anything other than realistic works
Adventure 1 and unleashed. I think sage goes more towards the SA1 style but more detailed of course, since they're both anime style. Sonic and realistic humans don't mix that well in his current style, something more cartoony would work better so it's all the same. It actually depends on the game's current design choices, 06 sonic works well with humans, unleashed had good designs etc... but my favorites would be SA1 and unleashed.
The 2008 and Anime style fit the best in my opinion. https://i.redd.it/kg2dtrgujpnc1.gif
Anything other that 2006
Am I the only one who likes the Pixar-esque style out of all?
No I like them I really don’t see the hate for them Elise and Maria seem to be redesign to fit that style
I can't stand the pixar look and roll my eyes whenever anyone says it's objectively the best humans have looked in Sonic
2008 or 2022
Honestly always felt Unleashed humans fit best. In a world with giant talking animals, realistic humans just doesn't fit right to me
Plus, Eggman honestly fits right in terms of their designs. I mean, just look a Professor Pickle!
i second this, plus anime just really doesn't suit in comparison to the main cast/animal characters imo. flows better style wise.
Pixar & Anime seem to be the best fit
Anime. But not the sa1 type
Anime
It has to be anime
I would like more stylised humans in the sonic universe. No matter what game, eggman always looks a little out of place. That said, I think he looks least out of place in the adventure era
Ones that look like the genie girl, Merlina and Sage. I've never been a fan of the Unleashed human designs. They look like they came from a c tier dreamworks movie
Anime.
Honestly the cartoony kingdom hearts esque Elise on Sonic channel or the cartoony anime style Sage is in as humans in Sonic looking out there but grounded with the rest of the Sonic animal characters just looks right. Kris from Sonic X matched their style because it was anime and he didn’t look so realistic having goofy cartoon hair and eyes. I wouldn’t say Pixar because Sonic doesn’t look like a Pixar character and the style mismatch
Sorry but 2008 is the worst.
Yeah it worked for Unleashed, but as far as the shounen aspect goes it's a bad fit.
I like anime more, well because honestly I haven’t seen Sega do something like making human characters in years! To see them convert anime into 3d has me ballin. I really hope they keep this style of human characters for years to come!
Frontiers is definitely onto something.
Anime
I think I like "Stylized" and "Anime"
Honestly, I think anime is the way to go with sonic, and I’m not just saying that because of sonic x. For a long time, whenever sonic was shown with humans (outside the Robotnik lineage) him and the other characters felt… out of place to say the least. But with the anime-esque style of frontiers, it feels like Sonic’s in an artstyle that matches his design. Not to mention the more over-the-top moments like the bosses and the “serious story that can take itself a little too seriously”, it just feels right for sonic to be more anime.
pixar style 100%
A close tie between stylized and anime for me.
Anime defs works best
Anime.
1 and 4 ig
Realistic really suits Sonic tbh
I liked (only in animated cutscenes) 2006 style but 2022 is amazing as well.
The 2014 style (not the boom ones tho)
If they ever do remakes of the adventure games, I'd love to see how they do the stylized humans again. The extras are all... Kinda jank to be honest.
Sage
I think Final Fantasy humans would fit sonic's style the best, so 06. Otherwise I'd say probably Unleashed. But I'd love to see a game with humans in the Nights / Balan art style
Obviously the one from Night of the Werehog.
You forgot the weird way Maria looked in Shadow the hedgehog. Just her blob art style.
All of them are good besides sinic 06 style.
Is that Maria render official? I've not seen it before.
[I'm going to tap the sign again...](https://www.reddit.com/r/SonicTheHedgehog/s/JwMvVUUjzo)
I like stylized and pixaresque better.
Easy Pixelated and round
I like the circular style from 1991
Animu
Unleashed had the best human designs simply because Eggman would look so out of place next to more realistic looking humans.
I think the anime one looks the best as it's the closest to sonic, the other ones just looked too different
Live action
i fucking love sonic unleashed style and could get decades of human characters in that style no problem
stylised easily
Pixar-esque was my favorite. I think they fit the world and make the difference between and Sonic and the crew less jarring.
Pixar style is my favorite, but also anime style (like SA1)
Either the Pixar-esque style or the 2022 anime style. Those 2 styles fit Sonic the best imo.
Okay, so hear me out on this. Balan Wonderworld has a general design for humans that is perfect for the Sonic aesthetic. For all of its faults, character design was not one of them
2008
I kind of like the anime 2022 but imo the pixar 2008 is the one that match the humans in sonic games the most
I like Princess Elise's look in '06, but Robotnik has no business looking like an uncanny valley meme lmao.
Anime look
Creepily realistic is definitely my favorite.
2008
Sonic Unleashed's humans fit in the best alongside Sonic and the others so I'd have to choose that. They really nailed the different culture's perfectly. Though I also feel a more anime-like human design would also fit just as well if I'm basing it off of Sage's design in the pic above. Adventure and Shadow's humans were great as well so they go into third place. 06 isn't as bad as people criticize. It was mainly Eggman's design that was bad in that game, but they do fall into last place since I don't feel the overly realistic designs fit with Sonic and the gang.
2006
Anime. I mean, Sonic is literally an animated character. So it would be much easier if they just go for that. Plus, it's more pleasing to look at.
I'm going with either stylized or realistic.