Amy Rose (TV series)

Amy Rose is an American computer-animated miniseries centered in the Sonic the Hedgehog film series that focuses on the character Amy Rose. The series is scheduled to debut on Paramount Global's family-oriented streaming service Paramount Prime on September 12, 2023, which was its launch date. The series is produced by Paramount Television Studios, Sega, and Original Film.

The series centers around the origins of Amy Rose (voiced by Jillian Bell), who had spent her days as a loner after being the cause of losing her father and would later become a hero in a local village of Mobius.

Cast and characters

 * Jillian Bell as Amber "Amy" Rose: A pink hedgehog who was born to loving father who she had lost from training. She inherited her father's Piko-Piko hammer before his accidental death and used it to defend herself against possible threats during her time as a loner. Writer Xavier Shaquille was behind changing Amy's birth name to "Amber", where she would go by the name "Amy" later on by her new friend Cream, after thinking about the obscure names the characters in the franchise have. Shaquille also wrote her to be stern and aloof but adventurous as contrast from her girly side in the main canon.
 * Mckenna Grace as a pre-adolescent Amy
 * Kristen Li as Cream: A young rabbit with the ability to fly using her ears, whom befriends Amy and gives the latter her current name.
 * Susan Egan as Vanilla: Cream's mother.
 * Adam DeVine as Mighty: A nature-loving armadillo.
 * Sarah Silverman as Sticks: An energetic but paranoid badger who doesn't trust Amy since the latter first arrived. She collects and hoards items from Earth to gain knowledge about its creations and culture.
 * Kyle Hebert as Big: An obese purple cat who, while narrow-minded, is an expert fisherman whom becomes close friends with Amy. Hebert is the second cast member to reprise a character from the video game franchise after Colleen O'Shaughnessey reprised her role as Tails in the film.
 * Richard Kind as Red Rose, Amy's affectionate but stern father who had passed on his Piko-Piko hammer to her.
 * Laura Bailey as Bloom Rose, Amy's doting mother who was disappointed in Amy for accidentally causing her father to plummet to his death.

Development
The series was originally meant to focus on Tails, who appeared in a post-credit scene to Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) and was one of the main characters in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022), before being changed to focus on Amy Rose, one of the main characters in the franchise who has yet to appear in the film series. Before Jillian Bell was cast as Amy, Mae Whitman was the first choice.

The series is animated through Marza Animation Planet, one of the visual effects companies behind the film series.