Nintendo wants to make anime around its most popular characters
Nintendo may be making more anime in the future, which sounds like a great plan to us.
During a shareholder Q&A Thursday, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto expressed interest in making anime for some of Nintendo's most popular series, specifically naming Pikmin, Star Fox, and Yoshi, according to translations from Alex Aniel.
Someone asked a question about releasing the early-2000s anime series Kirby: Right Back At Ya! on Blu-ray, which prompted Miyamoto's response.
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Miyamoto mentioned that the Kirby intellectual property is growing in Europe and the show is watched in places without console hardware, meaning that people who haven't played Kirby games still enjoy the show.
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And then Miyamoto dropped the anime bomb: Nintendo wants to make more of them and either distribute it freely or integrate it into games, which is not typical for Nintendo games.
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Nintendo has already given the world a taste of what this would look like. Two days before the Wii U game Star Fox Zero came out in April last year, Nintendo dropped a 14-minute Star Fox anime for free on YouTube. And it's really good.
If Nintendo wants to drop more high quality videos like this one, we won't object.
Can you imagine a Mario Kart anime with intense racing action and drama? Nintendo made an anime-style Japanese commercial for Super Mario 64 in the '90s, just to give you a glimpse at how amazing a Mario Kart anime series would be.
Nintendo wants to make more anime happen. Someone make this happen. We need this to happen.
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