Best Nintendo Cartoon

[Brian]

I've been watching the Super Mario Bros Super Show lately and I just thought I'd ask you guys this. What's your favorite cartoon based off a Nintendo game?

[ZariusTwo]

Super Mario Bros, Super Marior Bros 3, and the entire first season of Captain N.

[DrSpengler]

Not a whole lot of options, honestly. I suppose you could count anime, like the rare Mario OVAs or the F-Zero series that was swiftly cancelled.

Of them all, I'd choose Zelda. It wasn't great but it was fun. I liked the Super Show for its camp value, but rewatching it recently on DVD, it's best in small doses.

[ZariusTwo]

I rewatched it lately and found it to still hold up, SMB 3 is the more story-driven, and you can't beat a cameo from Milli Vanilli

[Peanut]

Gotta be SMB3. While I loved Super Show, Captain N, Zelda, I have a real affection for AoSMB3. I think it had a lot to do with the fact that it was just about stuff going down in the Mushroom Kingdom, more like the game. Where as Super Show was all over the map in terms of where the stories were based.

SMW was another good one. Great theme song, though I didn't really like the over use of the dinosaur theme in it. I could have done without that secondary caveman character, who's name escapes me. I liked that Yoshi was in the show as a kid, even though his voice was kinda stupid and his character design and animation always seemed off.

I'm really of the belief that Nintendo needs to get going on something. I heard not too long ago about an Animal Crossing anime in Japan, which I think is a great idea, but I haven't heard about it for a loooong time. I'd like to see them get away from the anime though. A new, more mature Zelda, while the hope and dream of every LoZ fan, has no chance. I could really see a new Super Mario Bros. show though. Maybe even something along the lines of Captain N, where it mish-mashed a bunch of franchises together (although Captain N was more about raping characters than incorporating them into the show). Something like Super Smash Bros. would make for a great show. How that would work, no idea, but it would rule.

Edit: Probably should have looked up that Animal Crossing anime before I said anything. http://www.doubutsunomori-movie.jp/tokuhou/index.html

[Spitfire]

Ahh Super Mario Brothers Super Show, hours of fun dubbing I got from that show

[VaughnMichael]

Captain N all the way motha brain!!

[Drtooth]

You seem to have left out:

Kirby! Right back at ya
FZero
Captain N and the Game Masters (an umbrella title for every show, except for SMBSS Mario cartoon segments)
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Jr.
Donkey Kong Country
Pokemon

Honestly, I don't consider "Zelda" a seperate show from SMBSS, since it was a recurring friday segment. Zelda did have better writing and story, but I can't Deny SMB cartoons from that series. That is my favortie.

SMB3 I liked, but the animation is horrible. Watch Misadventures in Baby sitting. Seriously

Captain N kicked butt. I thought Gameboy was pretty much shoehorned into the series. And I thought that reducing the show to 15 minutes with SMW really took a hit on the series.

I'm not surprised SMW doesn't have too many fans. it's my least favorite of the Mario Cartoons. I liked Yoshi, but Ugtar? Horrible. Why the shell didn't they just keep Toad?

Kirby is my favorite of the Animes. I hate what 4Kids can do to cartoons sometimes, but I feel they made Kirby Funnier than it could have been. Plus I like their American theme song better than the Japanese ones ("Kirby! You are the trampoline of rainbows" WOW )

I hate Pokemon (as a cartoon), and I thought FZero was just a lousy waste of a half hour. If I'm watching an Anime about racing, It has to be Speed Racer.

Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. are just out of my time. DK Country... well... Someone's gonna give me smack for this, but I enjoyed it. It wasn't too bad. Not great, but not bad.

I suppose you could count anime, like the rare Mario OVAs or the F-Zero series that was swiftly cancelled.

SO, they DID animate Mario over there for their own consumption (SMBSS was animatd in Japan, but for American Audiences). HAs anyone actually seen them? Are they any good? I'm disappointed they haven't made a Japanese Link series.

[Sewer Bull]

Originally Posted by Drtooth

DK Country... well... Someone's gonna give me smack for this, but I enjoyed it. It wasn't too bad. Not great, but not bad.

I shall be the one. It was awful, graphically way worse than the game. But I despise the 3D cartoons in general.

And the fact I could watch it only in German didn't help at all.

[DrSpengler]

Originally Posted by Drtooth

SO, they DID animate Mario over there for their own consumption (SMBSS was animatd in Japan, but for American Audiences). HAs anyone actually seen them? Are they any good? I'm disappointed they haven't made a Japanese Link series.

There were 2 OVAs, "Rescue Princess Peach" which adapted the story of the first video game (albeit, loosely) and an OVA more in-tune with the goofiness of the Super Show, in which the cast of the Mario games reenact various Japanese and Brothers Grimm fairy tales.

I've seen most of the Rescue Princess Peach anime. Unfortunately,the videos were removed from You Tube before the guy could finish uploading the whole thing.

The animated was rather good and it was pretty light-hearted, maybe not as silly as the Super Show, but it didn't take itself seriously.

It leaves me to wonder, though, who came up with the "cowardly Luigi" shtick first, America or Japan?

[Doppleganger]

Super Mario Brothers 3 all the way. Those Koopa kids were just the absolute brattiest.

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by DrSpengler

There were 2 OVAs, "Rescue Princess Peach" which adapted the story of the first video game (albeit, loosely) and an OVA more in-tune with the goofiness of the Super Show, in which the cast of the Mario games reenact various Japanese and Brothers Grimm fairy tales.

I've seen most of the Rescue Princess Peach anime. Unfortunately,the videos were removed from You Tube before the guy could finish uploading the whole thing.

off of Youtube? Of course! The guy could try to put it on Bittorrent or something. I for one, would KILL to see both.

Did Koopa look like the cartoon version, or did they animate the actual video game version?

I once saw some sort of Japanese animation cel of Mario and Princess on Google. It looked like it was an advertisement, tho.

I shall be the one. It was awful, graphically way worse than the game. But I despise the 3D cartoons in general.

No argument there. The animation was pretty funky, but I did like the show. I didn't like Candy Kong having short hair... but I did like Funky Kong with a Jamacan accent. And, furthering the practice of altering a character's name for the cartoon series, they called King K. Rool just Krool. I felt it was enjoyable. Not great, but it was a fun watch.

[DrSpengler]

They were all drawn on model with their game counterparts, save for Luigi, who had a blue and yellow getup for some reason.

Here's a ton of info on the two OVAs, including pics:

http://www.themushroomkingdom.net/mania/anime.shtml

I got through oer half of Rescue Princess Peach and I thought it was really cute and quirky. I don't know why they haven't released the thing on DVD, yet, even in Japan. The video cassettes go for hundreds of dollars on auction sites over there.

[Jon]

I also like alot of these that are mentioned.

Captain N was a fun series (and yet another toon Shout is planning for DVD release in Feb.).

Donkey Kong Country was another nice show (I taped all the eps. before Fox-Fam decided to yank it).

And the rest are more cool toons. From the various Mario Bros., and Zelda. Through the rest (for what I've seen anyway -- as haven't seen that F-Zero, or the Mario OVAs, among others).

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by DrSpengler

They were all drawn on model with their game counterparts, save for Luigi, who had a blue and yellow getup for some reason.

Here's a ton of info on the two OVAs, including pics:

http://www.themushroomkingdom.net/mania/anime.shtml

I got through oer half of Rescue Princess Peach and I thought it was really cute and quirky. I don't know why they haven't released the thing on DVD, yet, even in Japan. The video cassettes go for hundreds of dollars on auction sites over there.

Thanks for sharing that, dude!

[cowabunga14]

I remember watching some cartoon when I was way younger, but I can't seem to grasp the name of it... To me, that was the best Nnintendo cartoon at the time. It aired in the '90s in case anyone wants to give me the dates of when the Mario cartoons aired.

[Brian]

Originally Posted by Drtooth

You seem to have left out:

Kirby! Right back at ya
FZero
Captain N and the Game Masters (an umbrella title for every show, except for SMBSS Mario cartoon segments)
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Jr.
Donkey Kong Country
Pokemon

That's what the "Other" option is for. I was just naming the ones that came to mind right away. As far as the other Toons go, I never watched Zelda, Captain N, SMB3, or SMW. I remember DKC, don't remember DK Jr and DK, I went through what I call a "Pokemon period" in Junior High and then I got tired of it. Kirby was pretty good and I wasn't a big fan of F-Zero (love the games, though)

[DrSpengler]

Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr were segments of the Saturday Supercade show and were, in reality, the very first Nintendo cartoons ever produced. As a result, the characterization is very...strange.

Pauline is Mario's niece instead of his girlfriend, which would technically make her Luigi's daughter.

[Drtooth]

And Doneky Kong Jr. only featured him and a biker named bones cahsing after them. Mario et all were not in the series. Didn't Peter Cullen perform Mario's voice. I know Soupy Sales was DK. Frank Welker apparently did the voices of both DKjr. and Bones.

I remember DKC, don't remember DK Jr and DK, I went through what I call a "Pokemon period" in Junior High and then I got tired of it. Kirby was pretty good and I wasn't a big fan of F-Zero (love the games, though)

You know what cracks me up about Kirby? At least 30% of the episodes have to do with chefs, Food, or cooking competitions. I do love how the show satires American pop culture. The one episode I didn't get for the longest time was the one with the Giant moth and two small twin female singing monsters. Apparently that was a parody of Mothra. Funny. They actually parodies a Japanese movie that time!

[DrSpengler]

For the curious:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmfT-YPXo4M

That's a collection of all the intros for Saturday Supercade, including all the individual segments.