Sonic the Hedgehog (ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ Sonikku za Hejjihoggu?) is two-episode 1996 Japanese anime OVA series based on Sega's best-selling franchise Sonic the Hedgehog. The anime features Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Dr. Robotnik and a few supporting characters, such as the human Sara. This is also the only Sonic animated production that features Metal Sonic. The series was licensed by ADV Films and was released as a single direct-to-video film in North America as Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie.



The start of the story opens with Dr. Robotnik creating Metal Sonic. Sonic and Tails are enjoying a peaceful day at the beach.Sonic is relaxing outside the ruins of a crashed Boeing 747 and USS Enterprise, along with a Saturn V rocket, while Tails trying out his new Jet-Propelled Bodyboard in the process. While relaxing Sonic saves Oji-san (called "Old Man" in the English dub),who seems to have a message for them,from the President. When the President's messenge comes telling Sonic to come to his office. Once there, they find out that Doctor Robotnik has kidnapped the President and his daughter in order to get Sonic to take care of a problem: a giant mecha appeared in Doctor Robotnik's utopian city of Robotropolis and banishes the doctor and sabotages the Robot Generator, which will explode in less than a day. Robotnik asks Sonic to head the Land of Darkness to stop it. Once there,Knuckles becomes involved near the end and saves them both, and all three team up to destroy the defeats the mecha, who turns out to be Robotnik himself who lured Sonic to his base in order to copy his memories, personalities, and knowledge for his new robot, Hyper Metal Sonic, a Sonic-shaped robot who shares his memories and feelings, and essentially lives the same life as Sonic himself.