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 "I am Christian Weston Chandler... This is his story and nothing less!"
— Christian Chandler (First page 1 of Issue 0) | ||||||||||||||
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"If we try to take this comic seriously, we see power-ups taken from I don't know where, plot holes, inadvertent comedy, absurd pasts, edgy stereotypes, villains who are bad for their reason, fetishes, fetishes, and more fetishes. What I have been able to say so far is what thousands of people have already said, and I also saw that we all agree on something: The comic itself, not only in the drawing, but also in terms of argument, is horrible. Sonichu, in my opinion, is a lousy comic wherever you look at it. In fact, no kidding, I wish to see the first person on planet Earth to be up to speed on the comic. I want to see who has endured so much sick content, and say: "How...? How do you manage to stand with all that?" There is no way, there is no existing number to qualify Sonichu, because giving it a 1 out of 10 or a 2 out of 10 would be a pity. It is a comic that, regardless of what kind of tastes a person has, I would not recommend it. Nobody. Not even my worst enemy. It's not the worst comic ever, but I'm pretty sure it's in the top 10 in the Hall of Shame. Chris-Chan's track record is immense, and the truth is that what I have said and thought to you in this video is not even 10% of what he has done. Do me a favor, guys, and stay away from this topic. Beyond the weird memes and fanarts on purpose, there are dark things. Things that no one should see."
— SonicEpicFan (S.E.F)
Sonichu is a 2005 fan-made webcomic, originally a crossover fanfiction, created by the infamous vlogger Christian/Christine Weston Chandler, better known by his nickname, "Chris-chan". It stars his original character, Sonichu, who is a mix of Sonic the Hedgehog from his series and Pikachu from Pokémon. Currently, the series has 19 issues, including unreleased/incomplete ones. However, due to the author's previous legal situation (see reception), as well as losing interest and motivation in finishing the comics, it is unlikely that these issues will ever see completion or that the series will ever be continued.
Premise
The story is about a male Pikachu colliding with Sonic the Hedgehog to form a rainbow that creates numerous species and even collides with a female Raichu. Thus, both Sonichu and Rosechu are born, many other "Electric Hedgehog Pokémon" are also created, and many misadventures happen during the events of the comic. Alongside Chris-chan and many other new and familiar faces that often appear throughout the entire series, and with the evil schemes of Mary Lee Walsh (one of Chris' teachers) and other enemies, it's up to Sonichu and his friends to stop them and save the day so that things can go back to normal, and the characters can relax and have fun playing with each other.
History
According to the CWCki, Sonichu was the result of a computer graphics class as Chris had to make a CD album cover for an assignment, and he wanted to use both Sonic the Hedgehog and Pikachu on the album cover since he was a massive fan of both Sonic and Pokémon. However, he wasn't allowed to use copyrighted material since it was against the rules of the assignment. Because of this restriction, Chris struggled to think of something to draw on the cover. Then, an idea came: he decided to merge both Sonic the Hedgehog and Pikachu into one character. And thus, Sonichu was born. Chris was so proud of Sonichu that he decided to create a franchise out of him and even made a medallion in his image. He later decided to make webcomics out of him, and starting in 2004, he made short strips that ended up being the first appearances of Rosechu and Black Sonichu.
Afterward, he decided that he wanted to make the comic we all know today. He went to work, and on the 24th of March 2005, the first issue of Sonichu was released to the public on Chris' website at the time. More issues were later published online. The series had a minor audience following its release in 2005, but it gained more notoriety after a picture of Chris was shared on the Something Awful forums two years later in 2007.
Why It Sucks to the Extreme
- To get the elephant out of the room first: The illustrations themselves. They look like something that an elementary school kid would scribble up and have seen little improvement over the years. There are bound to be visual errors that occur within the illustrations. Keep in mind that the author was 22 years old when publishing the first work, and it barely even improved after many years.
- Misleading title: Despite being called Sonichu, the comic series is more about the author and his struggles in real life, and the title character is mostly relegated as a side character, and later issues of the comic mostly focus on Chris and not Sonichu. While the main title character does get some focus on other issues, most of the time, it usually focuses on Chris and his bizarre hobbies that always result in some conflict happening in the issue, and Sonichu is sometimes not even there, despite the latter being advertised as the titular character. Chris has more appearances in this comic series than Sonichu himself and is always there to move the plot forward.
- It's also pretty hypocritical since issue 0 said that the comic was said to be Sonichu's story and nothing else, yet in later issues, Chris gets more focus, and Sonichu rarely makes a lot of appearances after that, which contradicts what Chris said in the first issue and later gets changed in its remake by mentioning Rosechu, which isn't any better, since Rosechu doesn't appear very much in the series, and even on the front cover of issue 0, Chris appears as Sonichu's Pokémon trainer and is depicted to be an Ash Ketchum-like character with Sonichu being merely a partner for him, thus making the comic more of a fictional biopic rather than the misadventures of a fan-made Sonic the Hedgehog character.
- Egregious Editing: The panel layouts are rather confusing, and pages are often chock-full of words on the wall due to the crude script, making the comic itself way too wordy. Not to mention grammatical errors, typos, and misused phrases throughout the pages that should've been corrected during the editing process. Because of the stilted arrangement of panels and word boxes, it appears more as a storyboard rather than a dynamic comic.
- Even the first line in the first issue has a typo. "Our story begins in an open field 5 MIES (Miles) from the city of Station Square, which is under siege by the perfect chaos monster." Also one comic has THE misspelled as THW.
- Chris sometimes interrupts the story and inserts self-advertisements for his products and even other companies' products like AXE. Yes, really.
- When Chris doesn't advertise his products, he pops up in nonsensical moments such as in episode 6, where he comments on Dr. Robotnik and his song.
- The problem became worse in episodes 12-9, which have full pages of text to the point where we could consider the episode as a novel instead of a comic.
- The creator inserted himself into the comic by issue #2, completely making the titular Sonichu a side character and turning the comic from the adventures of a Pokémon combined with a hedgehog powered-up from the Chaos Emeralds along with other electric hedgehog Pokémon to a fantasy fulfillment and later a violent revenge fantasy.
- Keep in mind that there are self-inserts that were done right, like Guts being Miura's avatar in Berserk.
- Sloppy writing: Summed up as just flagrantly crude and blunt suffering from several issues: incoherent sentences, disjointed tangents, dull vocabulary, self praises and cringeworthy lines. It also commits the writing flaw of literally describing the actions in a straightforward manner without utilizing subtlety. It's as if this media was written for a much younger audience but even these media could be more clever than this.
- Another common problem with writing is that it tends to explain unnecessary details in the most elongated way. The writing doesn't condense its exposition properly. Likewise, important parts of the story that require exposition are similarly glossed over.
- The creator has also used the dialogue as an opportunity to insert his personal beliefs and info about himself, he would constantly remind us about his homophobia, marital status, girlfriend requirements, showing off his posessions, etc.
- Terribly cringeworthy and childish dialogue such as:
- "My Soul Hurts!"
- "As often as birds tweet, you are my lovely heartsweet!"
- "Snergen Flergen!"
- "Down to where? All that is down is the only floor."
- "Oh my Dog! My fantasies blow vastly towards my opposite gender... I am sooo offended! Put a shirt on!"
- Rosechu's "I am the power" speech along with "I am woman! Hear me roar!" in Issue 8.
- "My wooden badge was delicious!"
- The strange terminology like: "Boyfriend-free girl" or "Jerkops".
- All the characters are one-dimensional and even Sonic characters were massively downgraded from their official counterparts with even bad iterations from the worst Sonic games being more memorable than Chris' versions.
- This goes double for the females. They're just characters who like to shop, and cook, and are treated as sexual objects, which comes off as sexist.
- To add to all of this, they either do nothing to advance the plot or help the main characters (e.g Rosechu watching Sonichu getting defeated despite having equal powers to his if not more) or getting kidnapped by the villain so the main hero save her, Sarah Hammer also did get kidnapped by Wes-Li despite her also having powers.
- By the same token, the female characters other than Rosechus are smitten with Chris-chan, even though they were repulsed by him in real life, or they were trolls.
- If not all, most of the characters appear and disappear on Chris' whim since the webcomic has turned into his auto biography.
- Most of the characters that came from other franchises were pointless, and only appeared in a few issues. Metal Sonichu from issue 1 is a crowning example. While it isn't known what happened to him after being launched to the moon and surviving at the end of Episode 6, this was somewhat answered in issue 12 where he gives Naitsirhc his powers back.
- The titular Sonichu is nothing more than a shameless carbon copy clone of Sonic (except with a Pikachu appearance), right down to the cool and energetic personality. Similarly with Rosechu, she downgraded as stereotypical as other feminine characters and only exists as a predetermined love interest for the Sonichu without any genuine chemistry or development between the two and that also there are no conflicts between these two in their relationship or any disagreements toward their creator.
- Chris-chan, the actual main character, is a vainglorious, flawless Gary Stu with god-like powers and can appear in his comic whenever he feels like it. He can transform into a Sonic clone and can give bad luck to enemies (called "curse-ye-ha-me-ha"). Everyone, aside from the villain characters, is written to praise him and side with his "heroic" actions. He is also very bland as a character, depicted as a generic loser and awkwardly eccentric protagonist in romance media. It should be worth noting that all Sonichus and Rosechus refer to him as their "father".
- In fact, he is so powerful that it made the other Sonichus and Rosechus redundant.
- All the villains are just caricatures of people who angered Chris-chan in real life, including mall cops called "jerkops", store managers called "mana-jerks", Mary Lee Walsh (later changed to Slaweel Ryam), who was the dean of student affairs at Chris' college, (yes, really), and eventually internet trolls, with no motivation beyond making him suffer.
- Hypocrisy: The protagonists were supposed to do heroic things, like how the comic portrayed them. Instead, they committed several atrocities. Like Sonichu quietly stalking Rosechu (which stalking is not only illegal but wrong too!), Chris defeating mall security guards when they were just doing their jobs, and Punchy Sonichu supposedly killing Mypoe by punching her through the roof.
- Not only that, character development is pretty much non-existent. The only two characters that go through any form of change are Black Sonichu, known as Blake, and Wes-Li, based on magician Wes Iseli. Blake only defects to the protagonists, simply because he has a crush on Bubbles Rosechu and mistreatment by his master, Naitsirhc. There also isn't any reason for Wes-Li's defection to the antagonists at all.
- Chris and Sonichu then plagiarized all of Alec's TRUE and HONEST creations, followed by having them beat the senses out of Alec and accusing him of keeping female prisoners in his basement.[1]
- Chris and his corrupted officials had a kangaroo court for four men (whose only crimes consisted of slandering, even then, they didn't slander Chris and only wanted to tell the truth), before having them sentenced to death with cruel ways, with little to no evidence against them. [2]
- In Sonichu Special 4, Liquid Chris attempts to ambush Solid Chris with a knife after he kidnapped Kacie, the latter evades him, pushes him, and shoots him in the ankles with a gun, leaving Liquid Chris permanently crippled.
- Chris cursed a man to lose his wife, kids, house, and everything he owned over his smoking habits all because he called Chris out of soliciting sex.
- CWCville quickly becomes a North Korea- or Turkmenistan-like micronation within three issues, without mentioning the US government about this change in his story. Homosexual relationships aren't allowed to exist, possession of drugs (aside from caffeine) is a serious offense, and any villain Chris has fought throughout the series gets punished without a trial. Sometimes, Chris argues they deserve the death penalty, despite claiming to be against capital punishment.
- Speaking of CWCVille, the city is named after the author himself, which boosted his ego more. What's worse is that to Chris, it serves as escapism for anything he dislikes.
- This goes double for the females. They're just characters who like to shop, and cook, and are treated as sexual objects, which comes off as sexist.
- Unfunny attempts at humor ranging from lazy references, ignorant remarks or jokes that are too hard to understand. Chris sometimes even has to cite where the joke originally came from or explain how the joke works. Chris calls it "random-access humor", in which he would blurt out a random thought in his head, thinking that is funny, when most of the time, it's nonsensical.
- The plot changes rapidly with each issue. Every issue would retcon something from the plot and suddenly introduce plot elements out of nowhere without proper setup. New characters appear randomly without explanation as well as some old characters are forgotten, and the plot initially went from being a fan comic about a Sonic recolor to the adventures of an unlikeable nerd with superpowers battling against his haters.
- In Issue 5, Chris and Wes-Li battle using Yu-Gi-Oh cards which are then never brought up again or even set up. This is because Chris was playing Yu-Gi-Oh at the time and wanted to interpret them into his comic. Likewise, Darkbind Sonichu appears in sub-episode 4, because Chris was into Darkwing Duck and The Legend of Zelda at the time.
- Many of the plot elements also contain references to Chris' real life, and they expect you to know about it. This includes Chris battling mall security, his loitering at Target, and his interactions with the trolls.
- There's even a moment where Chris writes down an almost romantic encounter with a girl at the mall. When the girl says that she is not interested in him, he screams out "NO!" this actually happened in real life.
- Issue 12-9, numbered to avoid representation of the unlucky number, is another example of how Chris' life can derail the continuity of his story. Despite being part of the Sonichu storyline, it features no references to Sonichu and instead is solely devoted to the author's self-constructed character of My Little Pony. Chris only made it because he was a fan of the My Little Pony franchise during its development.
- Issue 10 is possibly the most offensive issue out of all of them. Before the issue, one of the characters featured was identified as having been created by someone else and used without permission, and when the creator of a Sonichu fan comic asked Chris to stop using the character due to it being stolen, Chris decided to kill the character off-screen and then reveal that she had a daughter who looks exactly like her but with yellow fur instead of orange and a different hairstyle, which looks even more like the fan character Chris stole. The issue also includes a scene that involves Chris infecting the world's water supply with his "straight blood", which is offensive to gays/lesbians, transgender people, and others in the LGBTQIA+ community, as well as a scene where he destroys a building full of people that disagree with him. The issue also has a disturbing scene where many of the protagonists murdering people such as the original creator of the fan character Chris stole as well as the person who told Chris to remove the character from his comic. However, this was changed in other releases of the issue.
- Some of the names for the original characters and locations are either lazy, unimaginative, corny, uninspired, or just plain stupid, for example, Giovanni's son Naitsirhc, whose name is just Christian spelled backward, and with settings like RuleCWC or Get-Tar region (based on real Target store the author was banned from). It just proves how lazy Chris was when naming one of his original characters.
- Poor publishing: The comic suffers from numerous visual errors, unfinished artwork, poor grammar, and many other inaccuracies and comical faults that it makes the comic very easy to laugh at for how bad it is and not in a good way, since the comic wasn't finished at all and there are many times where the dialogue goes out of the speech bubbles or are incorrectly placed in random spots on some of the pages, and by the way, Chris usually works on these comics for 6-7 months and yet they still look unfinished and rushed likely due to his laziness, and since web-comics usually are in development for the same time that the Sonichu comics are in, it makes this even worse since there are webcomics that are way better in terms of writing, artwork and story than Sonichu, and since most of the comic is based on Chris' real life situations, it shows that he had no care in making these comics and instead play things safe and never change or improve the comics at all mainly because of his massive ego.
- The designs for the Sonichu and Rosechu are just horrendous as most of them are just Sonic characters, but with body features from Pikachu that look awkward on most of them, and what is that some of them like Bubbles are just recolors of Sonichu, which is just downright lazy at best, and considering that Chris is in his 30's, he should know how to make actual characters, especially ones who are variants of the main characters. On top of that, some of the human designs are just as bad as the Sonichu and Rosechu designs, if not worse, since they look ridiculously ugly and poorly drawn at worst, especially Chris, who looks nothing like he does in real life.
- For example, punchy "Sonichu" is just a bastardized Knuckles, who is an echidna, not a hedgehog, and barely looks like a Sonichu, or even Sonic, at all. Plus, he is drawn so terribly that his eyes look slanted, which comes across as a racist Asian stereotype.
- There are far too many variations of Sonichu, such as Chris-chan Sonichu, Ultra Sonichu, and Metonic.
- In fact, the regular Rosechu is just Amy Rose with a few body parts of Raichu and barely any other changes aside from that, showing how lazy Chris is when it comes to creating his characters.
- Chris Chan Sonichu looks like Sonic with Pikachu ears, tail, and cheeks, and the infamous Colossal Chan which looks ugly.
- Misrating: The series is intended to be read by younger audiences (7-14), yet it contains very explicit sexual references, profanity, and graphic violence, all of which are unsuitable for that demographic.
- Issue 8 is one of the most obscene issues as it had sex scenes and Chris provided "censored" versions of it, with the TV-Y7 version omitting the inappropriate scenes (yes, Chris specified the TV-Y7 rating despite not being televised, and those rating names are meant for TV shows, not comic books) while the other (the TV-14 version) having barely even censored the sex or imagery!
- What makes it worse is how all of the comics are filled to the brim with pornographic content!
- Some parts of the comics make absolutely no sense whatsoever, such as Sonichu for some reason calling Chris, "father", even though Chris didn't make Sonichu in the comics, rather, he only made him in real life and first met in the CWCville mall. Heck, some parts are even retconned and bring in a plethora of plot holes into the comics themselves.
- They are littered with an insane amount of political propaganda, mainly when it comes to the females who are treated like the greatest things in the world and are seen as perfect, which comes off as biased towards females, most likely as a result of Chris-chan's past relationships with several girls, which is just downright creepy for him to do that.
- Sometimes, there is an unnecessary amount of fourth-wall breaking from Chris himself that comes out of nowhere and is only there because the creator wanted to tell people about his interests and personal hobbies, which can come off as creepy and uncomfortable since one of his interests is about getting a new girlfriend which Chris had been wanting to have around the time of the comic's release and not for a very good reason since he was known as a creepy stalker and made one of his friends, Megan, very uncomfortable and had been harmed by him for the rest of her life. This makes the comic come off as disturbing and overall unsettling.
- It suffers from having a wasted concept being implemented into a man's awful fanfiction since the idea of a crossover between both Pokémon and Sonic the Hedgehog seems like it could work and have some decent potential. However, it's being done by Chris-chan, who is infamous for his terrible behavior and massive ego and is being wasted on a lazy, unoriginal character who is just a fusion between both Sonic and Pikachu, and not much of the comic uses elements from both franchises and instead uses more original elements that were done by the creator to avoid copyright lawsuits and character infringement, and since most of the comic is mostly about Chris-chan, it makes the comic feel more like a figment of the creator's imagination rather than an actual Sonic the Hedgehog and Pokémon crossover with any care or passion put into it.
- Poor grasp on the source material: Many parts of the comics are very poorly researched and aren't accurate to their original depictions, such as when Wild Sonichu can go invisible from an unknown Porygon, who, by the way, can't even teleport in the games or anime at all, which makes the scene make less sense and more confusing to fully understand, as well as making Wild Sonichu look like an idiot for doing that, or how Layla Flaaffy is supposed to be a Flaaffy, yet she does not look anything like that Pokémon.
- Most of the content in these comics are mostly stolen from other pieces of fiction created by other people or different works that were made by different companies without even crediting or mentioning them. In other words, this series is an infringement onto a majority of copyrighted material, and since Chris had the nerve to copyright his work without informing their original creators, it makes the entire Sonichu comic book series come off as one big art theft, as many examples include stolen "unoriginal" characters, characters from franchises that are owned by major companies, artwork traced from official artwork, material that Chris never made, to begin with, and also artwork drawn by different people that Chris stole for his comic book series, thus proving that he was illegally breaking the law, and even with Sonichu himself (who is just a combination of both Sonic and Pikachu, which are copyrighted characters), he's making the entire comic book series a stolen work from numerous sources.
- Heck, many characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog and Pokémon franchises appear in this comic book series, and the creator didn't even bother crediting either Nintendo or Sega for owning both properties. What's even worse is that Chris decided to put the copyright of his original characters and even the comic book instead, which is illegal since none of the characters in these books were already owned by different companies or created by different artists, proving that Chris only wants to have things his way and refuses to let others have what they want, making him very egotistical and selfish overall.
- Many things that don't make sense in the webcomic.
- Non-sensical characterization of Chris-Chan, while he was portrayed as the Mayor of CWCville, despite this, the Jerkops, Manajerks, and Jerkhiefs were able to even arrest him in-universe.
- If Chris' kryptonite was a single girlfriend, why couldn't he make an in-universe love interest he could have himself satisfied? or better yet, why not polish the forced relationship between Sonichu and Rosechu together instead into a legitimate romantic relationship? Some of these options while they are not ideal, they're better and more imaginative than depicting himself having problems with Mary, Manajerks, Jerkops, and Jerkiefs.
- Sonichu and Rosechu's species are Gender-coded, and makes even less sense when Rosechu is based on Raichu, which is an evolution of a Pikachu, not a female counterpart of him, to add all of this, as Chris became a transgender, his fursona form "Chris Chan Sonichu" remained the same, despite occasionally being named Christine Rosechu, Sonichu and Rosechu could've been just based on Pikachu, and nothing would change, Chris not thinking through this is strange.
- To be fair, lions do have lionesses as their female counterparts, which are distinct by their lack of mane, although, they're still the same species.
- This might be intentional, considering Chris' misandry, having Rosechu being higher than Sonichu due to his supposed claims of respecting women, even though, he's equally as misogynistic, treating the female characters as sexual objects.
- Despite Chris being a protagonist that is supposed to be hailed for being heroic, his actions glamorizes soliciting and loitering under the guise of "finding love", portraying the managers, securities and Mary Lee Walsh who were attempting to to foil his actions as villains who don't allow love in CWCville. Thankfully, his mother told him to stop making these chapters as they were very offensive.
- There can be likeable outlaw characters, Yusei Fudo from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's who was treated as an outlaw for no fault of his own, then he earned respect by helping others and being selfless.
- The series unfortunately carries unfortunate implications, especially with the retcons of the early chapters in 2017, most of which were influenced by trolls known as the Idea Guys (a group who gaslit Chris into believing radical beliefs during roleplays).
- Early on, there was a Shadow Hedgehog-like Sonichu, which was named "Black Sonichu" and "Blachu", which are racist, which were thankfully retconned to Blake, also Naitsirhc stated that he is his "master", later on, Blake keeps stealing and getting lynched because of his color.
- One of the most infamous was the change in Sonichu's birthdate from March 17th, 1988 to April 20th, 1992, which the latter references Adolf Hitler's birth date, also to have sodomized him to conceive Crystal. Keep in mind, that Sonichu refers to Chris as a father, which alludes to incest, we aren't kidding!
- Crystal is one of the most infamous and controversial characters in the entire series, for her being referred to as the ideal sister, daughter, and Girlfriend. Despite Chris vehemently denying that he had no incest tendencies, she even appears in the artwork of his Yu-Gi-Oh! custom card "Girlfriend", which was foreshadowing and disturbing considering the affair with her mother Chris has committed to.
- Due to Chris' infamous homophobia, he made one of the worst retcons of his life, that being one panel where he leaps in happiness after finally getting a girlfriend (or so he thought), declaring that his love quest is finally over, the initial issues had rainbows in the background, which was later retconned to gates of haven likely due to the trolls playing on his fear of homosexual men, the change not only carries the homophobic implications but also death implications.
- In Sonichu #9/#10, there was a plot of Chris inventing the gay vaccine in which he eradicates all homosexual people with his blood. At the time of making these issues, Chris used to hate homosexual people, following his transgender, the gay vaccine was retconned to "Nombie-zazis" (a play on "Nazi Zombies", which is a trope that is exclusive to horror genre, while he lifted the idea from Call of Duty series (which are rated M), also The Haunted World of El Superbeasto is an animated adult movie used this trope much more organically, needless to say Nazi Zombies are inappropriate for a comic that is supposed to be TV-Y7.
- The series didn't get a proper closure, as there were more than 5 issues incomplete or straight-up canned altogether, and some of them weren't even released or had missing pages in them, since issue 19 got the spotlight to be released, it seems that the series is now dead. With Chris-chan losing interest in making Sonichu comics, while some websites deleted the comic due to the incest fallout, some censored issues were uploaded on WEBTOON since August 10th, 2021, albeit, only 10 issues are uploaded, with the comic's entirety is hosted on CWCWiki, issue #14 onwards are yet to be finished. Given that Chris nowadays is occupied with YouTube and Twitch streams ever since leaving the jail, it's safe to say that Sonichu will never come back, and with no end to conclude the series on a high note, this means that the series has sadly ended on a cliffhanger with no later issue ever coming out.
- However, Chris hasn't made any updates on the comic series and instead, mostly does streams on YouTube instead of finishing the comics, meaning that Sonichu is currently on hiatus and has a currently unknown fate at this point.
- Not helping the already terrible reputation this comic already has, the retcons that were made prior, meaning even if he did continue the series, it would have an even worse reputation.
Reception
When first released, Sonichu was a minor hit and gave the creator more attention and fame, however over the years after the controversy Chris has caused had earned himself a negative reputation for being a creepy stalker and committing a crime back in 2021, Sonichu began received more negative feedback and criticism over the years and is often regarded as one of the worst comic books of all time, and has become an example of poorly-written fanfiction.
Critics like DStecks, DiDi, and Dillion Thomas have criticized the comics for their awful writing, awful illustrations, annoying characters, and creator's fantasies, and have cited one of the worst fanfictions of all time. Linkara, while he didn't review them, has stated that he doesn't want anything to do with the comics and wishes they never existed alongside their creator, and many Sonic the Hedgehog and Pokémon fans have expressed a massive distaste for these comics for the same reasons as others.
The series has garnered a reputation outside the internet culture and has also been acknowledged in pop culture, almost to the point where even Sega has acknowledged the existence of the character and has mocked Sonichu on Twitter and made fun of Chris in Sonic Boom where one of the characters kidnaps Sonic and is revealed to an obsessive fanboy. Sonichu also appeared in Uncut Gems as a medallion, which was another example of mainstream acknowledging the existence of the character.
Trivia
- It got an unofficial intentionally bad animated series on YouTube that was decent. Take a look. However, it was canceled after adapting issue 10 because the creator was tired of trolling Chris.
- Christian had sold some drafts of unpublished issues due to his financial problems.
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