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[Regulus Tera]

Where's the TV anime series of Kid Icarus by SHAFT you fuckers?

Enjoy your background-less Kid Icarus.

 

[Cwarrior]

Watch how captain olimar will bé replaced with a clueless little moe girl as the main protag.

 

[metalslimer]

Weird this didn't come out with the game to promote it. Perhaps we will get pikmin 4 this gen

 

[Femmeworth]

This would be a great idea except I have the feeling they are gonna make the Pikmin CGI. :/ Too easy to copy paste them.

3D animation is the only way they could realistically do this. Unless they completely avoid depicting groups of Pikmin.

 

[Jotamide]

Another great way to introduce children to slavery!

 

[Clov]

3D animation is the only way they could realistically do this. Unless they completely avoid depicting groups of Pikmin.

Or they could hire Trigger, and have them "animate" it in the same style as Inferno Cop.

 

[foxuzamaki]

Where's the TV anime series of Kid Icarus by SHAFT you fuckers?

But this could be cool.

im surprised your not asking for studio 4C

 

[Dark Ninja]

Nintendo always chooses the wierdest franchises for anime F-Zero, Kirby, Animal Crossing and now Pikmin. Hilarious when they were shocked the F-Zero anime didn't do well and attributed to Miyamoto disliking the franchise and having no faith in it. Kirby did well though im not sure on how Animal Crossing did though. They should make a Mario show or Zelda show though and no not the old shows.

 

[Regulus Tera]

3D animation is the only way they could realistically do this. Unless they completely avoid depicting groups of Pikmin.

I wish their own internal studios handled this. Or whoever is doing Smash 4 (might be Namco?)

 

[Regulus Tera]

im surprised your not asking for studio 4C

4C's Kid Icarus short was boring.

 

[foxuzamaki]

4C's Kid Icarus short was boring.

but also the most promiscuous

 

[ash_ag]

Pokémon and Animal Crossing are by OLM, I wonder if this will be too. It's a good move of Nintendo regardless. I always thought they should more majorly extend into animation and print media -- perhaps even acquire OLM to do whatever they want in-house.

 

[Mariolee]

Imagine the Japanese product placement.

 

[The Awesomest]

They've done 4 minisodes for Kid Icarus: Uprising. Fire Emblem would be freaking awesome! I think they've done only 2 episodes based off a Fire Emblem game.

No, you know what Fire Emblem needs? Fire Emblem needs an opera. I'm dead serious.

Think about it.

 

[Chet Rippo]

but also the most promiscuous

Well If I was looking for that, I would ask for Xebec.

 

[foxuzamaki]

Well If I was looking for that, I would ask for Xebec.

good point

 

[mantidor]

why

why not

 

[GooeyHeat]

I was hoping for Kid Icarus anime, considering that Uprising was basically already an anime plot and dialogue wise.

On a side note, when I scrolled past this, I thought it said "Pokemon anime in the works" and just thought "...either somebody's a Slowbro or I've been warped backwards 16 years." :lol

 

[Regulus Tera]

why

The Pokemon anime is hugely successful, why not?

 

[Visualante2]

Remember when Microsoft did a Viva Piñata cartoon...

 

[Birathen]

I have found my Pokemans!

 

[JustRiffled]

didnt miyamoto once say, that Nintendo franchises should within their medium?

 

[Usobuko]

Watch how captain olimar will bé replaced with a clueless little moe girl as the main protag.

Deconstruction by Mohiro Kitoh and I will watch it.

 

[foxuzamaki]

Turn the Pikmin into moé girls. Success!

Spoiler

Oh god, please don't Nintendo.

I actually google searched 'moe pikmin' and so far havent seen any moe girl interpretations of pikmin, which is incredibly shocking

 

[Regulus Tera]

didnt miyamoto once say, that Nintendo franchises should within their medium?

I'm gonna say Miyamoto is a hypocrite considering the Mario cartoons on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

 

[Rhapsody]

but also the most promiscuous

I'll be honest, I don't even remember theirs, or the other one. I only remembered Shaft's lol

 

[Pikawil]

Turn the Pikmin into moé girls. Success!

Spoiler

Oh god, please don't Nintendo.

 

[foxuzamaki]

I'll be honest, I don't even remember theirs, or the other one. I only remembered Shaft's lol

i remember 4C's the most because i was happy there was an actual anime and not a CGI(and not even the that good of CGI) shorts only, i then took notice of how they animated it and the designs used and wondered how they got it past nintendo

 

[Rhapsody]

Ah, looking it up again, now I remember it. That short was pretty good (while the CG one was my least fave).

http://i.imgur.com/U04QM8L.jpg

How have I not ran into this image before? lol

 

[kubus]

This was actually announced back in March and going by Miyamoto's quotes back then it's most likely going to be a bunch of animated CGI shorts rather than a full anime series like most people here are expecting.

From the interview in which it was first announced with Polygon:

"We were working on several Pikmin CG animated videos and wanted more people to be able to see them," he said. "I had gone to a movie theater and saw the videos telling people to turn off their cell phones and thought we could create a Pikmin version of that, but instead decided to do the 3D glasses video."

Nintendo then worked with Japanese movie theater chain Toho Cinemas to get the video placed in about 60 theaters on 150 screens around Japan.

The 3D theater video was a sort of test to see how people would react to the animated short and if there was an appetite for that sort of thing coming from Nintendo.

The videos sound a bit like a pet project of Miyamoto's. He told me he started thinking about the idea of creating them when trying to figure out how he could "give more life to the Pikmin characters."

" I didn't want to license our characters out to someone else to create films," he said. "Instead, since I used to draw four-panel comics when I was younger, I thought it would be fun to bring a four-panel comic approach to creating video content, so we started work on these Pikmin videos.

"We didn't have a good opportunity to announce that we were doing this, so while we were working on the movies we also created the Pikmin video that opened our E3 presentation last year."

The first true short, though, hasn't yet been shown publicly, but Miyamoto gave me a preview of it during out meeting.

In it, the game's main character, Captain Olimar, is caught blending up what appears to be a red, vivisected pikmin, and then drinking it. When Olimar sees the characters, he begins walking toward them with a knife. They back away until they bump into a massive pile of what Olimar was actually cutting up and blending, a massive pile of carrots.

"When Olimar first discovered the Pikmin he named them based on the PikPik brand carrots in his home world, so he clearly loves carrots," Miyamoto said. "I thought it would be fun to have a scenario where it seems like he is going to eat the Pikmin. So it's kind of dark, but he doesn't eat them."

And it will most likely be sold on the 3DS eShop, or can be watched free on Nintendo Video:

"We really just want to take advantage of the Pikmin characters," he said. "We have started selling Shaun the Sheep videos, so we're continuing to look at ways to expand the eShop offerings. Nintendo 3DS is great for viewing 3D video content so we wanted to look at ways to expand that offering."

More info in the original article on Polygon.

 

[a Master Ninja]

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[Forkball]

Attack on Bulborb

 

[BeberMan]

 

[Cody_D165]

 

[Oddduck]

I always enjoy when they adapt Nintendo franchises as animated series.

 

[foxuzamaki]

I always enjoy when they adapt Nintendo franchises as animated series.

still waiting for that starfox anime....

 

[JustRiffled]

I'm gonna say Miyamoto is a hypocrite considering the Mario cartoons on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

That was after these tough.

Or maybe he was just speaking about Mario. So I don't think Mario will ever get an Anime/Cartoon again.

 

[MisterHero]

I'm gonna say Miyamoto is a hypocrite considering the Mario cartoons on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

I'm pretty sure he cited products like those and the Super Mario Bros. movie as reasons NOT to focus on them. "Games being their own thing" is mostly him not wanting games bogged down with story.

From a more capitalistic view, cartoons are still a good way to advertise stuff. It's nice that Pikmin can recieve some attention, even if it's 10 years after its debut.

 

[Tom_Cody]

still waiting for that starfox anime....

And Miyamoto is still waiting for the Star Fox puppet drama:

http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/starfox/0/2

 

[ZombiePlatypus]

Guess they wanna expand the brand's exposure.

I'm looking forward to this. Wounder what studio they're working with. KyoAni, SHAFT or STUDIO4°C would be awesome.

 

[-Horizon-]

WAT
Why am I just hearing about this now??

So...if this is a success, can I realistically hope for a Fire Emblem anime? BELIEVE

Would watch.