Grandy02
Balloon Fighter
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Post by Grandy02 on Jun 30, 2008 4:25:31 GMT -5
I am. It's not canon. It's just officially licensed fanfiction. Just ask yourself - is it likely anybody on the original game design team is going to use the information in their later games? That's why the Pokemon and Kirby animes are canon, but the American Mario and Zelda cartoons are not. That's why the Origin of Samus comic is canon, but the comics in Nintendo Power are not. The Pokemon Anime is not Canon, Ash ketchum? the storyline is completely different from the official Nintendo Pokemon videogame plus VIZ media?, i don't think so, as for Kirby perhaps, no comment there( I haven't watched it). The Pokémon anime heavily influences the whole Pokémon franchise. One word for the most obvious influence: Pikachu, that is the star of multiple games. The story has many differences to the games, but they also share many commons. The anime series and the games are intrinsically tied to each other. The story for the Kirby anime series is even more different from the game stories. But it influenced the Kirby games as well. Fire Lion's new design, anime music in Air Ride, Spear Waddle Dees in Canvas Curse/Power Paintbrush, Dedede's castle in Squeak Squad/Mouse Attack, to name some examples. But how did those American cartoons, comics and that weird movie influence the Mario series? I'm afraid that it didn't do in (almost) any way.
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mach7
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Post by mach7 on Jun 30, 2008 4:51:36 GMT -5
The Pokemon Anime is not Canon, Ash ketchum? the storyline is completely different from the official Nintendo Pokemon videogame plus VIZ media?, i don't think so, as for Kirby perhaps, no comment there( I haven't watched it). The Pokémon anime heavily influences the whole Pokémon franchise. One word for the most obvious influence: Pikachu, that is the star of multiple games. The story has many differences to the games, but they also share many commons. The anime series and the games are intrinsically tied to each other. The story for the Kirby anime series is even more different from the game stories. But it influenced the Kirby games as well. Fire Lion's new design, anime music in Air Ride, Spear Waddle Dees in Canvas Curse/Power Paintbrush, Dedede's castle in Squeak Squad/Mouse Attack, to name some examples. But how did those American cartoons, comics and that weird movie influence the Mario series? I'm afraid that it didn't do in (almost) any way. True True, but in my opinion the differences of the pokemon anime, to the videogame far outweighs the similarities: One, Ash is completely different to Red in personality and in skill, Two: Misty never is associated with Red/Ash in the video game, despite that yellow version is a direct base to the anime, three Red appearing in the next game Gold/silver as the final boss, as of Ash has yet to even defeat the Pokemon league challenge Same as in Dragonball: Dragonball GT is already considered non Canon, despite the similarities to its predecessors.
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Post by Hiker of Games on Jun 30, 2008 6:16:06 GMT -5
I would definitely say there is a distinct difference between canon and the animes influencing the games. At least to the extent that I would point out that they are both two canons that interpret one basic idea. It would be like saying the Marvel comic universe is canon to the Spider-Man movie franchise or the Ultimate Marvel universe. They both have their canons and similar roots, but they're not canon to eachother.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jun 30, 2008 8:07:29 GMT -5
Well, the Pokemon anime certainly isn't the exact same characters and stories as the Pokemon games. But if there's a 2-way influence, then you can't ignore the relevance of the animes to that series.
Whereas you can with anything made by NoA.
Excuuuuuuuuuuuuse me, princess!!
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Post by Hiker of Games on Jun 30, 2008 8:33:02 GMT -5
There is some influence I admit, though not as heavily stated I think. Mostly I would think the influence come from the games, but the anime figures a lot into the marketing... so you end up with something like Pokemon Yellow, even if it doesn't effect internal things in the game to a large extent.
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