11-21-2014, 04:04 PM
I couldn't get into the Pokemon anime when growing up surprisingly. The creator of Kirby(Masahiro Sakurai) helped out on developing the anime Hoshi no Kirby(I will admit that its Japanese version intro is catchy). The english dub had its moments, but some of the censorship on it wasn't called for. But thats a different topic for another day.
Japan has a ton of animation studios. So chances are Nintendo would only work with a studio that can deliver with quality. I mean. Who was in charge of the animated segments for Smash Bros Wii U/3DS for this year's E3? Whoever was in charge of that seemed to have a pretty good idea how Smash bros worked out. Nintendo is just very concerned about handing the rights to their games, they don't want a big 'screw up' to happen thanks to whatever got adapted for the big screen. Why do you think we never had another Mario movie after the movie that came out in the 90s? The same thing can be said for Zelda, Metriod, and hell even including animated series. Although. Kirby managed to get his own show that was outside of the Pokemon anime. I know the late Imagi animation studio pitched a Zelda movie back sometime in 2006-07 but that was rejected by Nintendo. I heard there were rumors/talk about a live-action Metriod movie but that hasn't gone anywhere.
I think Nintendo is just wanting to find the right place to do justice to adapting the games for entertainment. I know I'd like to see a Mario anime and an anime of Legend of Zelda in the right hands personally.
Japan has a ton of animation studios. So chances are Nintendo would only work with a studio that can deliver with quality. I mean. Who was in charge of the animated segments for Smash Bros Wii U/3DS for this year's E3? Whoever was in charge of that seemed to have a pretty good idea how Smash bros worked out. Nintendo is just very concerned about handing the rights to their games, they don't want a big 'screw up' to happen thanks to whatever got adapted for the big screen. Why do you think we never had another Mario movie after the movie that came out in the 90s? The same thing can be said for Zelda, Metriod, and hell even including animated series. Although. Kirby managed to get his own show that was outside of the Pokemon anime. I know the late Imagi animation studio pitched a Zelda movie back sometime in 2006-07 but that was rejected by Nintendo. I heard there were rumors/talk about a live-action Metriod movie but that hasn't gone anywhere.
I think Nintendo is just wanting to find the right place to do justice to adapting the games for entertainment. I know I'd like to see a Mario anime and an anime of Legend of Zelda in the right hands personally.