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Post by Prince~Of~Light on Jun 29, 2010 5:20:21 GMT -5
I agree with Shrikes here.
But maybe Kirby became more mature after the years after from events of anime-series in my opinion. Starting from... KDL? (-LL-)
It might not make any sense, since having those Cappies and other enemies in the anime that aren't actually bad (like Bonkers. Wait, he's a helper...)
But the anime got even reflected little bit into Kirby's game's afterward... Phan Phan?
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Post by superpoppybros on Jun 29, 2010 7:20:27 GMT -5
Huh? The anime universe and the games universe are separate and not one and the same. The games only tend to make references to the anime every now and then, like King DDD's castle in Squeak Squad/Mouse Attack and how Kirby will say 'poyo' sometimes in Epic Yarn.
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Post by Manspeed on Jun 29, 2010 11:28:44 GMT -5
Yeah, Super Poppy Bros. has the right idea. Two seperate continuities.
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Post by Da Robot on Jun 29, 2010 16:38:14 GMT -5
The only part I liked about the anime was the fight scenes and transformation sequences, which were too short and too few and far between. I also don't like how Kirby himself was basically protrayed as Pikachu 2.0, being a weaponized pet and all. Ironically when the Kirby anime came out, NOA actually tried to market Kirby as the next Pikachu. They spent $10 million to do that and ended up failing. |
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Post by kirbychu on Jun 30, 2010 6:10:57 GMT -5
I actually thought the Japanese version was brilliant because it took Kirby, who was essentially another personality black hole (like a lot of Nintendo's main characters), and turned him into someone unique. The fact that this personality for him has now carried over into the games is great as far as I'm concerned.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2010 9:47:09 GMT -5
I wasn't a huge fan of the Kirby anime, but I didn't think it was bad. It was good, simple fun - bright and colorful and meant for childrens, even though we as aging gamers take interest in it because we grew up with Kirby games. I mostly didn't like that they portrayed Dedede as an idiot, when it's been clear since early on in the games that he's cleverer than he lets on; that and the fact that it was clustered with too many characters were enough to put me off. Why Escargoon or...uh...whatever the two yellow kids were called when a Waddle Dee could have stood in either/all of their places? Even more, I saw Lolo and Lala in at least one episode, and they would have filled the role of Kirby's friends.
Also, the Nightmare human-dude fucking crept me out.
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Post by kirbychu on Jun 30, 2010 10:25:50 GMT -5
Yeah, they could've halved the character count and had the show make just as much sense. Tiff, Tuff and Escargoon were totally pointless additions.
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Post by Koopaul on Jul 1, 2010 0:33:25 GMT -5
They put those kids there so the children have someone to identify with. Kirby can't talk he's pretty much a one dimensional character.
You could probably have a show just about Kirby but it would change things dramatically. It would either become a slapstick variety show, or an educational toddler show. Those are the only places a mute can go to.
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Post by Shrikeswind on Jul 1, 2010 3:27:38 GMT -5
There was definitely alot of dimension in Brawl for all of it's silence. In fact, when you have no voice, you have to show your personality in far greater detail. Ever play charades? Well this is charades ON CRACK.
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Post by The Qu on Jul 1, 2010 4:18:11 GMT -5
Wall-E.
Koopaul, your argument is invalid.
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Post by Manspeed on Jul 1, 2010 10:47:35 GMT -5
Why must everything be "relatable" anyway? Must we always have a protagonist that says "I'm you"? Whatever happened to protagonists that say "I'm the guy you WANT to be"? Superman, Popeye, Mario. All of these characters fit into this category. I mean, isn't escaping reality the reason we indulge in fiction to begin with?
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Post by kirbychu on Jul 1, 2010 14:16:59 GMT -5
They put those kids there so the children have someone to identify with. Kirby can't talk he's pretty much a one dimensional character. Kirby's a one-dimensional character because he doesn't talk? You realise Fox McCloud is just about the only starring-role Nintendo character who does talk, right? You could probably have a show just about Kirby but it would change things dramatically. It would either become a slapstick variety show, or an educational toddler show. Those are the only places a mute can go to. I'm pretty sure you'l find there are thousands of mute characters in the world of fiction who fit neither of these categories. I agree that removing Tiff and Tuff would have changed the nature of the show somewhat, but that could only be a good thing. I was watching it to see Kirby inhale some shit, not to watch Tiff do her freaking homework. |
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Post by Shrikeswind on Jul 3, 2010 12:55:06 GMT -5
Why must everything be "relatable" anyway? Must we always have a protagonist that says "I'm you"? Whatever happened to protagonists that say "I'm the guy you WANT to be"? Superman, Popeye, Mario. All of these characters fit into this category. I mean, isn't escaping reality the reason we indulge in fiction to begin with? Except that Mario's a blank slate available to have you projected onto him and Popeye actually is pretty relatable. Superman's spot on, and then, that's one of the cheif complaints people have about him (not saying it makes him any less popular, of course, or that his pros are outweighed or even outweighable by his cons, but come on, he got in a fight with the fabric of the universe AND WON.) |
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Post by Manspeed on Jul 3, 2010 15:14:40 GMT -5
That was Superman-Prime. He's...not Superman. Hell, he's not even a hero.
The modern-day Superman is nowhere near as overpowered as he was in the past anyway. Whatever the case, my stance still stands.
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Post by Shrikeswind on Jul 6, 2010 2:15:21 GMT -5
True. But it's still a point to make: Anyone who's THAT big a goody-two-shoes who can punch the reality of one universe and screw with another universe in doing so is a role model so hard no one wants to be like him. =P
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