# Sonichu Sonichu is a webcomic created by Christine Weston Chandler, better known online as Chris-chan, first posted on November 24, 2004. The comic follows a yellow hybrid of Sonic the Hedgehog and Pikachu, and the amateur art plus Chris-chan's chaotic online life turned it into a heavily mocked webcomic and the center of one of the internet's longest-running trolling sagas. ## Origin Christine Weston Chandler first drew Sonichu in March 2000 for a high school class project[1]. A teacher told her she could not use a copyrighted character, so she combined her two favorite properties, Sonic the Hedgehog and Pokemon, and drew the resulting mashup as a supposedly 'original' creation[1]. The character sat on paper for four years until November 24, 2004, when Chris used her web-programming skills to build a personal site called CWC's Sonichu Site! to host her illustrations and short comic strips[1]. That November 2004 launch is treated as the comic's official start date across every dedicated Sonichu wiki[2]. Early strips focused on Sonichu, Rosechu, and later additions like Blake, with little reference to the outside world[1]. Chris then began writing herself into the pages, and by Sonichu 2 (technically the third issue after Sonichu 0) the self-insert mayor of CWCville had displaced Sonichu as the actual lead[4]. The comic sat online mostly unread for its first three years before trolls found it in 2007[4]. - **Platform:** Personal website (viral spread via 4chan and Encyclopedia Dramatica) - **Creator:** Christine Weston Chandler (Chris-chan) - **Date:** 2004 ## Overview Sonichu is drawn in a bright crayon-and-marker style with shaky linework and heavy tracing of Sonic and Pokemon sprite art[1]. The lead character is a chubby yellow hedgehog wearing a red-and-white lightning medallion, marketed inside the comic as an 'Electric Hedgehog Pokemon' born when a wild Pikachu and a Sonic look-alike were shocked together during a Pokemon battle[1]. Rosechu, his pink Pokemon-hedgehog girlfriend, followed shortly after, and a growing cast of clones like Blake (originally Black Sonichu) filled out the roster[1]. The real protagonist is Chris herself[2]. From Sonichu 2 onward, Chris inserted a fictional version of herself as the mayor of CWCville, a super-intelligent chosen figure blessed by God with a super mode activated by a magic medallion[4]. Storylines lift dialogue and plot beats wholesale from Sonic games, Pokemon, Dragon Ball, and Excel Saga[2]. Later issues drift into Chris's sex life, her hunt for a 'boyfriend-free girlfriend', and her feud with the trolls mocking her, ending in Sonichu 10 with the main characters violently killing the trolls[4]. The comic ran intermittently for over fifteen years, hitting 14 fully completed issues (15 if you count Sonichu 13) against Chris's original goal of 75 to 100[1]. The point online is not the story: readers do not follow Sonichu for genuine enjoyment but to document what Chris drew that week, share screenshots on the CWCki wiki, and treat every new panel as fresh material for the fandom-hostile ecosystem that grew up around the author[2]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Sonichu? Sonichu is a webcomic by Christine Weston Chandler (Chris-chan) about a hybrid of Sonic the Hedgehog and Pikachu that first went online on November 24, 2004[1]. ### Where did Sonichu come from? Chris first drew the character in March 2000 for a high school class project when a teacher told her she could not use a copyrighted character[1]. ### What does Sonichu mean? The name is a portmanteau of 'Sonic' and 'Pikachu', the two characters Chris blended to design the lead[1]. ### How do you use Sonichu? Online, 'Sonichu' is used as both the comic's title and shorthand for the terminally-online autistic creator archetype Chris represents[9]. ### Is Sonichu still popular? The comic had 14 completed issues after fifteen years of intermittent updates[1], and dedicated wikis and YouTube retrospectives kept the wider story circulating well after the original 4chan trolling era[3]. ### Who is Chris-chan? Christine Weston Chandler is the creator of Sonichu and a long-running subject of internet trolling and documentation since roughly 2007[4]. ### Why is Sonichu famous? Its amateur art and writing, plus Chris's own chaotic online conduct, made it a heavily mocked and archived webcomic and the anchor of a years-long trolling saga[2]. ### What is the CWCki? The CWCki is a wiki dedicated to Chris-chan and Sonichu with over 1,300 articles cataloging her work and public life[5]. ### How many Sonichu issues exist? 14 issues are fully complete (15 if Sonichu 13 counts), out of Chris's original target of 75 to 100[1]. ### What is the Frederik Knudsen video? A 'Down the Rabbit Hole' YouTube episode released on August 25, 2016 that covered Chris and Sonichu and passed 4 million views[4]. ### Who is Rosechu? Rosechu is Sonichu's pink Pokemon-hedgehog girlfriend, added early in the comic's run alongside other clone characters like Blake[1]. ### What is CWCville? CWCville is the fictional city inside the Sonichu comic where Chris's self-insert character serves as mayor[4]. ## References 1. [https://sonichu.com/cwcki/Sonichu_(comic)]() 2. [https://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Sonichu]() 3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IPtLvxO8hs]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sonichu]() 5. [http://cogsdev.org/cwcki/Main_Page]() 6. [https://encyclopediadramatica.wiki/index.php/Chris-chan]() 7. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100814091913/https://www.hsienko.com/asperchu/index.php?title=Main_Page]() 8. [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Sonichu]() 9. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sonichu]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/sonichu Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library