{"id":673023,"date":"2026-07-04T07:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673023\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T07:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:09:12","slug":"sneak-peek-sonic-anniversary-anime-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673023\/","title":{"rendered":"Sneak Peek: &#8220;Sonic&#8221; Anniversary Anime Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sneak-peek-sonic-anniversary-anime-short.jpg\" data-caption=\"SEGA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sneak-peek-sonic-anniversary-anime-short.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"sneak-peek-sonic-anniversary-anime-short\"\/><\/a>SEGA<\/p>\n<p>The official YouTube channel for Sonic the Hedgehog has offered a sneak peek at the upcoming animated short \u201cSonic the Hedgehog: Memories and Beyond!\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Announced by SEGA at Anime Expo 2026, the reveal came during a Sonic animation retrospective panel featuring Takashi Iizuka, Tyson Hesse and Evan Stanley.<\/p>\n<p>In the short, Dr. Eggman\u2019s new evil scheme is to upgrade Metal Sonic into the ultimate fighting machine by stealing Sonic\u2019s life-data and harnessing the power of the Chaos Emeralds.<\/p>\n<p>Sonic and his friends realise that to defeat Metal Sonic, they must rely on the friendship they built through their adventures.<\/p>\n<p>The ten-minute short celebrates Sonic\u2019s 35th anniversary and is set to release this Fall.<\/p>\n<p>The short comes ahead of the live-action \u201cSonic the Hedgehog 4\u201d film which is currently in post-production ahead of a release in March next year.  In addition, new live-action and animated \u201cSonic\u201d shows are in development.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/wonder-woman-scribe-to-pen-mr-terrific\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWonder Woman\u201d Scribe To Pen \u201cMr. Terrific\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/cyberpunk-2077-hits-40-million-copies-sold\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cCyberpunk 2077\u201d Hits 40 Million Copies Sold<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEGA The official YouTube channel for Sonic the Hedgehog has offered a sneak peek at the upcoming animated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-673023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}