Mega Man (2017)

[TurtleTitan97]

Dentsu Entertainment USA has partnered with Man of Action Entertainment to develop a 26-episode animated series based on Capcom’s iconic video game franchise “Mega Man” for the global market, it was announced today by Yuichi Kinoshita, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dentsu Entertainment USA, Inc. Under terms of the deal, Dentsu Entertainment holds worldwide broadcast and licensing rights for all aspects of the new “Mega Man” TV series.

Dentsu handpicked Man of Action Entertainment, creators of Ben 10 and Generator Rex, to create, write and executive produce the all-new “Mega Man” animated series. Disney/Marvel’s Academy Award-winning feature Big Hero 6 utilized the characters and team created by Man of Action, the bi-coastal creative studio and writers’ collective formed by creators and acclaimed comic book writers Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, Duncan Rouleau and Steven T. Seagle. Marvel called upon Man of Action to produce and write “Ultimate Spider-Man” and “Marvel’s Avengers Assemble” for their successful launches on Disney XD. The new “Mega Man” series has a target air date of 2017, coinciding with the franchise’s 30th anniversary.

“We are very excited about the opportunity to introduce an all-new ‘Mega Man’ to loyal fans and kids,” said Kinoshita, commenting on the deal. “Having a celebrated character from Japan reimagined by Man of Action is the ideal project for Dentsu Entertainment USA.”

Man of Action’s Rouleau said, “The 1990s ‘Mega Man’ TV series was cool and different than other series targeted at kids during that time. It featured great action, but also brought the laughs. Mega Man is a character that is even more relevant for today’s kids and we are really looking forward to creating something new that still respects the long tradition of the character.”

The “Mega Man” franchise is grounded in a series of video games, first launched in 1987, featuring battles fought by the eponymous blue robot protagonist and an ongoing cast of allies and enemies. The “Mega Man” multiverse has spawned over 130 video games on multiple gaming systems, selling over 30 million copies worldwide, as well as a plethora of toys, comics and collectibles. A highly-rated “Mega Man” TV series was popular in the USA in the 1990s and aired for several seasons.


http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/446133-new-mega-man-animated-series-gets-26-episode-order

[LeotheLateBloomer]

I just found this out right now. I wonder what type of animation style it will be.

[Shred Head]

I was jumping up and down for joy when I started reading then Man of Action Entertainment and Ultimate Spider-Man came across my eyes and now my interest is pretty much dead now. Oh well at least its a sign that maybe Capcom will show interest in making some games again.

[The Coffee Man]

Eh.

If it wasn't for the fact that I'm dealing with disillusionment from the video game industry and that Capcom killed my enthusiasm for the franchise, I would be looking forward to it.

I'm more looking forward to the Mighty No 9 stuff, to be honest.

Also this is the studio that is also currently making Ultimate Spider-Man. Thought I'd point that out.

[turtlefanforever]

about time

[NinjaPug]

Was excited until I saw Man of Action mentioned.

[oldmanwinters]

Having watched almost all of the 1st season of the DiC cartoon on DVD, I really don't think it's that bad considering the culture of cartoons at the time. The character models are odd in that "make em look buff" sense and the characterization is pretty shallow on Proto Man, but they do seem to make great use of elements from the source material. The animation itself is surprisingly fluid considering my expectations. And I love the theme song.

[LeotheLateBloomer]

Having watched almost all of the 1st season of the DiC cartoon on DVD, I really don't think it's that bad considering the culture of cartoons at the time. The character models are odd in that "make em look buff" sense and the characterization is pretty shallow on Proto Man, but they do seem to make great use of elements from the source material. The animation itself is surprisingly fluid considering my expectations. And I love the theme song.

Well yeah, 90s, dude. Shows back then didn't always have the best quality and character models were pretty off at times. Still, some of those old video game shows hold up pretty well to this day, imo.

[raph27]

So Mega Man gets into Smash Bros, now a TV show... yet hasn't had a game in what? 5 or 6 years? C'mon Capcom!

[Sumac]

There are rumors (just rumors for now), that Capcom is about to have a full scale resurrection of the franchise, with multiple multimedia projects.

[Candy Kappa]

So Mega Man gets into Smash Bros, now a TV show... yet hasn't had a game in what? 5 or 6 years? C'mon Capcom!

damn, just realized how old Mega Man 10 are...

[drgon78]

Well hopefully it will be good. Now if we could just get an anime for the Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Final Fantasy 6, Breath of Fire 3, Phantasy Star 4, Dragon Quest 8, Castlevania: SoTN, and Lollipop Chainsaw, I will be happy.

[CyberCubed]

He had already has his Archie comic ongoing too.

[TurtleTitan97]

First look at Mega Man:

https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/IQdP_NKcBkhzQKYfHsxrN4ne6-Y=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6550977/372274.0.jpeg

http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/26/11785728/mega-man-animated-series-2017-details

[The Deadman]

First look at Mega Man:

https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/IQdP_NKcBkhzQKYfHsxrN4ne6-Y=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6550977/372274.0.jpeg

http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/26/11785728/mega-man-animated-series-2017-details

That looks like the character from Mighty No. 9.

[TurtleTitan97]

That looks like the character from Mighty No. 9.

Not really, it looks terrible in comparison to that design.

And it gets worse:

Dentsu Entertainment and DHX Media's upcoming Mega Man animated series will focus on Aki Light — a regular, everyday kid who also happens to be schoolboy robot.

Besides living his "normal, upbeat" life, Aki has the ability to transform into Mega Man's iconic armor, complete with the Mega Buster arm cannon and helmet. Familiar characters -- like Mega Man's adorable robotic dog, Rush -- will be a part of the series, and new characters, like Mega Mini, will make their debut.

IGN has an exclusive image reveal of Mega Man with Mega Mini you can check out below.

Mega Man will debut in 2017, to coincide with Mega Man's 30th anniversary. The cartoon's team is aimed primarily at a young audience, ages six to nine, but hopes video game–loving parents will tune in as well.

Dentsu Entertainment and DHX Media are working in collaboration with Man of Action Entertainment -- the creators behind the Ben 10 franchise and Marvel's Big Hero 6 characters -- to bring Mega Man back to life.

"The best thing about Mega Man is his unflinching wide-eyed optimism and an over-the-top sense of humor," Duncan Rouleau of Man of Action said in a statement. "This show reflects both qualities. We've got it all in there, it's hopeful, forward-leaning, action-packed... it's full on fun ahead."


http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/26/mega-man-animated-series-will-introduce-alter-ego-new-image-revealed

[Mew]

I used to like Mega Man a lot! It's my second favorite NES game! The re-design is horrendous, and Mega Man IS NOT A FREAKING SCHOOLBOY! He fights other robots and kicks there ass. Mega Man doesn't need a Prom date, he needs to fight Dr. Wily! This is going to suck, I know it already. When I first saw this I had high hopes, now I'm destroyed because Mega Man is going to be a stupid schoolboy trying to be hip, do the Whip/Nae Nae, he will Dab! He is going to be the underdog, BLAH BLAH BLAH. I want to throw whoever suggested this out a window to their inevitable death! Now, because of this horrible series, Mario will be a teenager learning why his Super Mushroom is getting bigger! UGH!

[CyberCubed]

Looks terrible.

Megaman NT Warrior is the best Megaman anime or cartoon, and even then it wasn't great, but at least it was true to the source material and went on for over 100 episodes. Sadly the dub never finished the show.

[Etsyturtle2]

I used to like Mega Man a lot! It's my second favorite NES game! The re-design is horrendous, and Mega Man IS NOT A FREAKING SCHOOLBOY! He fights other robots and kicks there ass. Mega Man doesn't need a Prom date, he needs to fight Dr. Wily! This is going to suck, I know it already. When I first saw this I had high hopes, now I'm destroyed because Mega Man is going to be a stupid schoolboy trying to be hip, do the Whip/Nae Nae, he will Dab! He is going to be the underdog, BLAH BLAH BLAH. I want to throw whoever suggested this out a window to their inevitable death! Now, because of this horrible series, Mario will be a teenager learning why his Super Mushroom is getting bigger! UGH!

Their* And he will not whip.

[The Deadman]

I used to like Mega Man a lot! It's my second favorite NES game! The re-design is horrendous, and Mega Man IS NOT A FREAKING SCHOOLBOY! He fights other robots and kicks there ass. Mega Man doesn't need a Prom date, he needs to fight Dr. Wily! This is going to suck, I know it already. When I first saw this I had high hopes, now I'm destroyed because Mega Man is going to be a stupid schoolboy trying to be hip, do the Whip/Nae Nae, he will Dab! He is going to be the underdog, BLAH BLAH BLAH. I want to throw whoever suggested this out a window to their inevitable death! Now, because of this horrible series, Mario will be a teenager learning why his Super Mushroom is getting bigger! UGH!

When he's out of his armor, he appears as a 10 year old boy.

[Mew]

Where *Their?

[TMNT_Guy]

So the Ruby-Spears cartoon, outside of manga and comic adaptations, is still the most faithful classic Mega Man adaptation. That’s…kind of sad.

Hopefully the Archie comic starts again soon.

[raph27]

The redesign isn't awful, even though it has a little of that "edgy 11 year old gets to reboot old character and makes them overcomplicated" look

[Bry]

...yeah, I dunno. A lot of this is change for the sake of change, and I don't think Mega Man is a design or a concept that needs this kind of update.

Seriously, guys. You could just adapt the Archie comic. Ian Flynn gave you the perfect blueprint.

[Mew]

I praised God that Mega Man didn't turn out like this:
http://www.fightersgeneration.com/nx/chars/badboxart-megaman.jpg

[Shark_Blade]

He looks like a childish kindergartener's poor fan art... Disgusting.

http://i.imgur.com/jFp1kT0.jpg

[drgon78]

Wow! looks terrible.

[snake]

I'm not a fan of the design, but it's the generator rex/ben ten guys. They make quality stuff. The writing is atleast in good hands.




Buuuuuuuut "ages 6-9" kinda scares me a bit. Who knows how it'll turn out?

[CyberCubed]

I feel sorry for kids these days, these are the type of cartoons they have to grow up with. They need to go back and watch the cartoons from the 90's and early 2000's circa 2000-2008 or so to see good shows.

The only remotely good cartoons nowadays is Nick TMNT and the Star Wars Rebels show. Too bad Young Justice got canceled so fast.

[snake]

I feel sorry for kids these days, these are the type of cartoons they have to grow up with. They need to go back and watch the cartoons from the 90's and early 2000's circa 2000-2008 or so to see good shows.

The only remotely good cartoons nowadays is Nick TMNT and the Star Wars Rebels show. Too bad Young Justice got canceled so fast.

Yep. I can agree with you on that Cubed. It seemed like action shows were actually making a comeback from 2007-2012 but then everything got canned and replaced with a flash animated comedy.

My favorite memories are of me turning all the lights down in my basement on a friday night starting at 7pm and watching CN's "you are here" block that only showed the action shows. Oh my god it was glorious. First up was Batman: The Brave and The Bold, which back then I really didn't appriciate it as much as I do now, but I watched it. Then Ben Ten would air and that was awesome. Then the main event came on, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Eventually more stuff was added to the block, like Symbiotic Titan, the Secret Saturdays, and Generator Rex, and all that was good, but it stilled stayed badass and true to it's action core.


All that stuff had such a huge impact on me. Really, Ben Ten is what got me an interest for writing, and Clone Wars taught me HOW to write.

[Powder]

Looks like ass. All hope is lost. It's confirmed, the higher ups of this world are actively trying to destroy everything that invokes happiness, nostalgia, or is an otherwise comforting escape to young adults today.

[snake]

Looks like ass. All hope is lost. It's confirmed, the higher ups of this world are actively trying to destroy everything that invokes happiness, nostalgia, or is an otherwise comforting escape to young adults today.

But Powder, it's HIP and NEW! NEW things are good! Right?

[CyberCubed]

There were some good new shows in the mid-2000's but a lot of them got canceled way too fast. Spectacular Spiderman started in 2008 for example but ended after 26 episodes. Wolverine and the X-men and Young Justice started after and were both canceled quick.

There was also Avatar/Korra in that time and of course TMNT 2k3.

[Shark_Blade]

Yep. I can agree with you on that Cubed. It seemed like action shows were actually making a comeback from 2007-2012 but then everything got canned and replaced with a flash animated comedy.

My favorite memories are of me turning all the lights down in my basement on a friday night starting at 7pm and watching CN's "you are here" block that only showed the action shows. Oh my god it was glorious. First up was Batman: The Brave and The Bold, which back then I really didn't appriciate it as much as I do now, but I watched it. Then Ben Ten would air and that was awesome. Then the main event came on, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Eventually more stuff was added to the block, like Symbiotic Titan, the Secret Saturdays, and Generator Rex, and all that was good, but it stilled stayed badass and true to it's action core.


All that stuff had such a huge impact on me. Really, Ben Ten is what got me an interest for writing, and Clone Wars taught me HOW to write.

Have you seen what they've done to Powerpuff Girls? Tragic.

[snake]

Have you seen what they've done to Powerpuff Girls? Tragic.

I know. That show screams "Hey! We're trying hard to be relavent!" and beats you over the head with it.

Didn't bubbles make a meme face from 2008 or something?

[sdp]

It looks like a late 90s/early 00's CG character mixed with Mighty No.9(which isn't a good thing). Event he proposed CG Mighty No.9 show looked better even if it did look generic and bad. This is in the same level of bad as the 90s Mega Man cartoon and that show probably will end up having more references to the show than this. It's likely going for the Sonic Boom and Pac-Man and the ghostly adventures crowd.

[Sumac]

First look at Mega Man:

https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/IQdP_NKcBkhzQKYfHsxrN4ne6-Y=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6550977/372274.0.jpeg

http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/26/11785728/mega-man-animated-series-2017-details
He looks like he judges and hates everyone.

[ProactiveMan]

I'd have called it Adobe Illustrator Man.

[Shred Head]

I just want everyone to watch these and think about what we should have had and just how bad they ****ed this up.

tfoeasCeh44

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Instead we get Mega Mini fantastic.

[snake]

It looks like a late 90s/early 00's CG character mixed with Mighty No.9(which isn't a good thing). Event he proposed CG Mighty No.9 show looked better even if it did look generic and bad. This is in the same level of bad as the 90s Mega Man cartoon and that show probably will end up having more references to the show than this. It's likely going for the Sonic Boom and Pac-Man and the ghostly adventures crowd.

Oh sh*t I forgot about that Pac man show. This will be EXACTLY like that. Sonic Boom wasn't too bad for a comedy IIRC, and had some pretty funny jokes.

[ZariusTwo]

Airing on Cartoon Network

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/04/09/mega-man-gets-new-series-cartoon-network/

[Autbot_Benz]

Airing on Cartoon Network

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/04/09/mega-man-gets-new-series-cartoon-network/

If you want your cartoon to succeed why would you want it to air on Cancelled Network I mean Cartoon Network.

[sdp]

I just want everyone to watch these and think about what we should have had and just how bad they ****ed this up.

tfoeasCeh44

Instead we get Mega Mini fantastic.

wow, is that really the pilot for the american cartoon or is that from some anime/japanese produced pilot?

It looks amazing even today, instead we got that ruby-spears crap. And I tried to give credit to the cartoon we got since they at least tried to use all the robot masters of Mega Man and even some episodes based on X but I never knew that they'd started with something so faithful from the beginning and f-cked it up along the way.

[GoldMutant]

If you want your cartoon to succeed why would you want it to air on Cancelled Network I mean Cartoon Network.

Would you really want it on Nickelodeon instead and have a minimal chance of succeeding?

I'm a sucker for Mega Man, but the artwork looks unappeasing. Hopefully the writing can at least be passable. I want to see some Robot Masters though from games that aren't just the first three though. Shade Man, Sword Man, Splash Woman, and Tornado Man I'd love to see get adapted personally.

wow, is that really the pilot for the american cartoon or is that from some anime/japanese produced pilot?

It looks amazing even today, instead we got that ruby-spears crap. And I tried to give credit to the cartoon we got since they at least tried to use all the robot masters of Mega Man and even some episodes based on X but I never knew that they'd started with something so faithful from the beginning and f-cked it up along the way.

According to a comment, the reception by test groups wasn't that impressive. (I may be wrong though)
http://www.rockman-corner.com/2015/11/see-original-mega-man-cartoon-pitch.html

[CyberCubed]

CN will cancel it in one season, it doesn't matter.

[DestronMirage22]

CN will cancel it in one season, it doesn't matter.

It would've been canceled soon regardless of the channel it airs on. It's almost based off the worst version of Mega Man there is: the Dreamwave comics.

[sdp]

I feel this show was only licensed for cheap because of Mighty No. 9, it was never meant to be anything but a way to not lose relevance even if they had no intention on doing things right. Even less now that MN9 didn't leave up to expectations, it's being sent to die.

[CyberCubed]

Did CN cancel Sonic Boom yet, or is that show still going?

[Shark_Blade]

Ew. I feel that the recent Astro Boy film is pretty much sufficient as the Mega Man movie at this point.

Did CN cancel Sonic Boom yet, or is that show still going?

It got renewed for another Season.