Takashi Iizuka is a Japanese video game director, producer, designer and screenwriter. Since 2009, Iizuka has been the vice president of product development for the Sonic the Hedgehog series at Sega of America, as well as the head of Sonic Team.
This spinoff follows Princess Sally Acorn and the Freedom Fighters as they resist Robotnik’s empire across the world and beyond. Sonic will appear occasionally, but the show keeps its focus on the other heroes, showing how they reshape a ruined world and take back their homeland piece by piece.