Somari Adventures

Not to be confused with the sub-series of the same name, Somari Adventures (2017).

Somari Adventures is a multimedia Internet web-series created by Felixman128, starting in 2017 with the first sub-series of the same name, Somari Adventures (2017). Primarily starting with the series's second sub-series, Adventures of Somari, the series has been associated primarily with golden age animation cartoon style. Although also featuring dramatic elements, the most common genres for the series are adventure and comedy. Consisting of mainly episodic sub-series and short animations called Somari Shorts, the series has gained some significant popularity on the website Butterfly: Inchworm Animation II. The series has also had 4 film adaptions released to date, counting the shorter film A Somari Spooktober! and the live action remake of A Somari Summer, ANOTHER SOMARI SUMMER. In September 2021, The Somari Movie II was announced to be in production, however, it ended up being cancelled. In recent years, Felixman128 has worked in partnership with MattMovies599 on the series collaboratively.

History
In the early 2010's at a young age, Felixman128 conceptualized for a series based on the school lives of him and his friends. The series was titled Tye & Friends, and although the series was conceptualized as being live action, an animated artstyle was also created for the series. Many elements from these early concepts, including the aforementioned artstyle, would later go on to be used in Somari Adventures.

A couple of years later in 2017 after joining Butterfly: Inchworm Animation II under h.games, Felixman128 was inspired by a YouTube series known as SammyClassicSonicFan's Adventure to create his own live action YouTube series with similar elements. Felixman128 was to create a channel named Somari101594 and the series would be called Somari101594's Adventures of The Library, a live action series about him and his friends hanging out in their local Civic Center (with Felix under his persona of Somari,) while interacting with various elements and objects from well-known video games. Although the final series was not live action, many of the original ideas for the YouTube series would make their way into Somari Adventures (2017) on Butterfly as an animated series to decent success, prompting a follow up.

Later in November of that year, The Somari Movie was released in two parts inspired by Felix the Cat: The Movie, but due to being released on a day with low activity on the Butterfly website, the movie underpreformed. This did not end the series, however. A couple of days later, a pilot episode for a reboot series titled Adventures of Somari (inspired by the 1990's cartoon, The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat) was released to positive reception from fans. In the new series, rather than being the persona/representation of Felixman128, Somari is instead his own character (though he still occasionally represented Felixman), going about his new life as a young/middle aged adult. The series featured mostly reanimated Flipnotes done by Felixman128 and Mysteryman. The series was well received, but was short lived due to its abnormal production method. The first two episodes of the series received positive reviews on release, while the last two once again underpreformed.

A short while after Adventures of Somari 's short lived run, an account was created to host another reboot for the Somari Adventures series, this time inspired by the 2000's anime Sonic X. The new series was titled Somari Strikes Back! and featured the first appearance of Somari's brother Lance in animated media. The series was also notable for bringing back Somari' s Sonic-like powers from the original series, as well as creating the character Sylvestia, although she did not appear visibly. The series only had a pilot episode, which received mixed reception, before the series was scrapped due to high production quality for the time and a lack of voice actors.

After the attempted anime, the Somari Adventures series would feature many games and a couple spin-offs until the release of A Somari Summer, also known as The Somari Summer Movie, the series's second film adaption. A Somari Summer was a decent success on release, but gained more recognition in recent years, and remains to be one of the most recognized Somari productions in the series, receiving a live action remake in 2020 titled ANOTHER SOMARI SUMMER. After the movie, another pilot episode for a reboot titled The Somari Show! (styled after Adventures of Somari) was created featuring Adenatorgoodguy and Kittytail4 as voice actors (with Adenatorgoodguy as the lead role of Somari), though the series was not produced due to complicated production/communication limitations. The three briefly went under the name Somari Team during this time.

In recent times, the Somari series has gained a lot more traction with the increase of production quality, and today it is one of the more popular productions on Butterfly Animation. In 2021, another Somari movie was announced, The Somari Movie II, although it was eventually cancelled.

Cancellations
Since 2018, the series has been cancelled and brought back numerous times, with Felixman128 citing various personal reasons. However, in September 2021, Felixman128 announced that he would no longer cancel the series and would instead work on it "off and on." A notable instance of an attempt to cancel the series is with the cancelled movie The Legend of Somari, more commonly known as Somari DREAD, which was intended as a series conclusion before being cancelled due to troubled production.

Legacy
Just like its title character, Somari Adventures has somewhat become an icon of Butterfly Animation, appearing in all sorts of Butterfly crossover media, including animations, music, games, and videos. In 2021, user Le_Zuertudo nominated two Somari Adventures shorts to be entered into a "Best of Butterfly" compilation, those being Night of the Werewolf and Stylantics. Somari and Lance, the series's staple characters, also appear regularly in works by other creators, including MattMovies599, Coolcat06, Le_Zuertudo, Schmoe, Aloradragon, Mysteryman, and more.

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