The series initially ran for two 26 episode seasons on TV Tokyo from Ap to March 28, 2004. In the series, after an infiltration into Eggman's base goes wrong, Sonic and his friends are transported to a parallel world inhabited by humans where they met a 12-year-old boy named Christopher Thorndyke, who helps Sonic along with his friends to take on Eggman continuously while trying to retrieve all seven Chaos Emeralds so that they would return home. Sonic X is a Japanese anime created by TMS Entertainment under a partnership with Sega and Sonic Team.