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"Friends 'Til the End" is the fifty-first episode of the anime series, Sonic X. It first aired on 21 March 2004 and 19 March 2005 in Japan and the United States respectively.

Appearances[]

Characters:

Races and species:

Songs[]

Japanese version[]

English version[]

  • "Gotta Go Fast" - Opening theme (USA and CAN)
  • "Sonic X" - Opening theme (AUS, NZ and UK)
  • "Gotta Go Fast" (shortened) - Closing theme

Plot[]

Beginning with a flashback, a young Chris is told by his parents to be good for Ella and Tanaka while they are away. As they leave, Chris thinks to himself that if he behaves, they will come home quicker. That night, Ella comes in with presents from his parents, one of which includes a merry-go-round-like toy with toy soldiers. Chris voicing over that he believed that if he behaves, they will come home much sooner, and he believed them, but it never came true.

Back in the present, after stopping him from going home, Chris runs away with Sonic and takes him farther and farther through the woods in the dark, and Sonic seems apathetic about being kidnapped by his friend. Mr. Tanaka and Topaz tried looking in the woods, but couldn't find them, so Topaz says that the police have to set up a search to find them quickly and Chuck says that they do not have much time to cause Chaos Control and send Sonic back to his world before the two worlds merge to cause time to stop.

The next morning, Sonic and Chris walk through Station Square until they find a bike and ride as they leave the city and head to the desert. They stop at a cafe to have something to eat until the news came reporting about Sonic and Chris with a video of Lindsey upset and wants Chris to come back. Sonic and Chris leave the cafe and see Nelson's helicopters, so Sonic comes to a truck to give him and Chris a lift and the bike ended up in the desert while Sonic and Chris are in the truck and escape from the desert with the helicopters searching.

Sonic and Chris stop at a forest and then a railway track that went passed by once. Chris says that he will forget about him someday. Sonic always forgets, but it would be impossible to forget about him. Soon Sonic and Chris are feeding some birds and are thinking that they will be harder to find them even Chris' parents and they set off. They come up a waterfall and Sonic gives Chris a hand. Soon they walk across another forest. Chris runs and trips over a stone. Sonic asks him for a hand, but Chris can do it himself and they stop to see a beautiful lake.

After failing to find Chris with his helicopter fleet, Nelson and Lindsey are ready to try and buy Chris back with whatever he wants when Chuck persuades them that they need to find Chris by themselves, personally, by looking somewhere Chris would want them to find him. Eventually Chris takes Sonic to a lakeside cabin that his family used to go to when he was little, but stopped when his parents started becoming busier and busier. They make a campfire and Sonic tells Chris that he would stay if Chris wants him to. Chris realizes that Sonic has to go and finally admits that he was lonely before Sonic came, and was afraid that he would be lonely again. Sonic expresses hope that he'll see Chris again someday. So Sonic returns to his own dimension. Soon after, Lindsey and Nelson reach the cabin, and find Chris on the dock alone, and glad to see them.

Eyecatch cards[]

Regional differences[]

  • The entire flashback scene at the beginning of the episode is removed.
  • Much of the episode's first few minutes was replaced in the dub with recycled footage from earlier episodes.
  • A lot of text is removed from the scene of Sonic and Chris walking through the city.
  • On the news report the text on J. Bailey's name card is removed as well as the "SXN" logo.
  • A three second shot of Sonic letting go of Chris's hand in slow motion after saving him was cut in the dub.
  • The flashback about Sonic and Chris has a vintage effect added to it in the dub.
  • In the Japanese rerun on Kids Station on March 23, 2020, the preview for Episode 52 was omitted as it was not referred as the final episode from the initial JP broadcast.[2]

Title in other languages[]

Language Title Translation
Japanese クリスの長い旅 Chris' Long Journey
Chinese 克里斯的長途旅行 Chris' Long Journey
French Le voyage de Chris The journey of Chris
German Freunde für immer Friends forever
Greek Το μεγάλο ταξίδι του Κρις Chris' big trip
Hebrew המסע הארוך של כריס Chris's long journey
Italian Amici fino in fondo Friends to the end
Korean 크리스의 머나먼 여행 Chris's long journey
Polish Przyjaciele do końca Friends to the end
Portuguese (Brazil) A longa jornada de Chris Chris's long journey
Romanian Lunga călătorie a lui Chris Chris's long journey
Russian Долгое путешествие Криса The long journey of Chris
Spanish (Latin America) El largo viaje de Chris The long journey of Chris
Spanish (Spain) Amigos hasta el final Friends to the end
Thai การเดินทางแสนไกลของคริส Chris's long journey

Trivia[]

  • The boy whose bike Chris took slightly resembles Ness from EarthBound. The primary differences is that his shirt is pure yellow without blue stripes, his shoes are blue, and his baseball cap is backwards instead of sideways.

References[]

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