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Anime crossover funny2/29/2024 The anime recognizes all of this and depicts it accurately when it wants to, but mostly throws it out the window and does something extremely different. The main games are raising sims very much drawing from Princess Maker, set in an idyllic world with no major conflict and where you're just trying to train a monster to be the best. That seemed to mostly just be confusing for the audience, especially since the English localization didn't change the title and presented it as a second season, so it wasn't clear that it wasn't even meant to be a sequel. I think the first anime is fairly accurate to the games beyond what it does to add its own humour and action, but it was followed by a second anime which is kind of a mashup of the third game's Medabots with the characters from the first and second game. Henry / The Phantom Renegade is actually the protagonist of the first game, following the trajectory he has in the games. The first anime is specifically based on the second game, I believe the remake of which is the only traditional Medabots game to be released in English. But Medabots was just part of the wave of Pokemon-inspired games that tried to catch the coattails of the original Pokemon craze, and thanks in part to it having a comedy bent it stuck around more than most. The Medabots anime came out in English before any of the games and the vast majority of the games still haven't been localized since, so I think when the anime was introduced it was often thought of as a parody of Pokemon. It's the only Nintendo series outside of Mario and Pokemon to ever get a theatrical release! Imagine if they announced an Animal Crossing movie today - it would be such an event! But this one is just a footnote. But this one is a lot more obscure, even as Animal Crossing became a juggernaut. You can kind of group it with Kirby and F-Zero in their 00s anime adaptations, which was their last attempt at doing a multimedia thing until the past few years. It's aimed squarely at female audiences (with an 11-year-old girl as a main character), who they weren't targeting as strongly in the mid-00s. It's based on Wild World, so its look hearkens back to that pre-New Leaf flavor of Animal Crossing that's sort of been sanded away. It was released theatrically in Japan, but never internationally, which modern day Nintendo would never do - particularly for Animal Crossing, which has become increasingly bigger as a brand with every installment. I've always had a fascination with the Animal Crossing movie from 2006, which I've never seen, but just from bits and pieces feels like the last gasp of that "era" of Nintendo before evolving, in the Wii era, into its current form. My hope is that you reading this will find out about something you hadn't heard of, so most of these aren't things I've seen myself, but picked more because maybe this one will be the one that gets you. I feel like starting us off strong, so I'm going to open with thirty examples, twenty animated and ten live action. You don't have to have actually watched something in order to post it, but hopefully you can at least mention why you'd think of that one. It's pretty easy to pull up a big list if you know where to look, but let's try to put in some pictures and say a few words about it. ![]() Of course, a big part of this is that there are a ton of Japanese adaptations which are obscure or unknown outside of the country, but it's still interesting to know that they exist. You don't need to be an international best seller to get an adaptation of your video game. It was a rare treat finding out about a new video game adaptation.Īs an adult though, besides learning that a lot of these aren't thought of very highly, I've also learned that there are a lot of them. ![]() I guess I felt a sort of excitement seeing an attempt at realizing these game worlds more concretely, or alternate takes on their universes, especially for arcadey games that were laser focused on gameplay and had left little room for storytelling. I didn't have access to the Mega Man cartoon, but I really wanted to see it. I had an episode of The Super Mario Bros Super Show on VHS and and watched it over and over. ![]() In retrospect, video game adaptations must have been a weak point of mine when I was a kid.
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