Sonic the Hedgehog Accessories of Japan

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If it's from Japan, and you can wear it, but it isn't clothing, chances are, it's right here. Japan had plenty of accessories with which to decorate yourself. However, many of these items had co-releases in other countries, they just changed the packageing. Don't be surprised if you see some of these things else where, or even own some yourself! Thanks to wider releases for some of these items, they are fortunatly not all that rare, even today.

There never seems to be a shortage of watches with Sonic the Hedgehog. I mean, how many can you really have? The world may never know, they're still turning 'em out! The first watch is shown twice. It says the classic "Segasonic" on it but there's too much glare for the face. The second you'll recognize as the Tiger Electronics game-watch from the USA. This one is still in the package, which is in english as well.

A selection of 5 Sonic watches. This is an old photo and the quality is not very good. You can still sort of make him out if you squint at it. The one on the end (black) looks like the "Pair of eyes" from the ash tray shown elsewhere. It's too bad this is so fuzzy.

These are Sonic Umbrellas. They are the victim of another ancient photo, so you can't really see who is on each one. But they are definately Sonic, this is a Sega World of Somewhere photo.

With these close up shots of the umbrellas, you can see they used outlines in an interesting and stylish manner on two of the pannels for each one. Are all the umbrella designs different, or do some of them repeat, but with different colors? The quality of the original photo makes it impossible to tell. These are nice, big umbrealls, which look like good thick quality cloth. Photo by Alessandro

Ah, it's time To Be Cool...with yet more Japanese watches. The yellow one is "Segasonic" again, and the center features the "Sonic in Space" design popular around the time of Sonic CD. Hard to tell what the dark color watch is about. The two "Be Cool" ones may be the American release packaging for it. The right one flips up to reveal the time. The left looks rather similar to that old Quaker Oat give-away deal.

This is an inflatable arm thing. It is like a band, with an inflatable pool-toy like Sonic Adventure Sonic face on it. This was a give away at a game show. Who thinks of these things?

What if one arm-balloon accessory is not enough? It was hard enough to believe someone thought up one...but now there are two. Here is a chao who hugs your arm so you can wear it around. Look at the little hot pink wings! These strange inflatable accessories are somewhat charming, just due to oddity.

A cell phone holder or item wallet being shown with a shirt at the famous Sonic Store in Japan.

Here is one of the latest items out of Japan. This is a sort of wearable hard case for your items. It seems to be by Aniria. These photos are from Sonic Team's site, showing a model and how you might use it. It seems rather high quality. The page it was on says "It is a limited edition Sonic the Hedgehog carrying case for the DS lite,ipods,digital camera's ect.It has a hard shell outside made of polycarbonate.It is lightweight and the image of Sonic shines.The image shows that you can also use it to store your trading cards. Thanks to a great translator for this info! So it can be assumed that the graphics/words are in some sort of reflective material. Polycarbonate is known to be very hard, so this will certainly be a tough case. Over all, it looks like a very high quality item. This leads one to suspect that it is probably also expensive, although only if you live in Japan can you order it.

More great wear-ables from Japan to come!