In Megaman 8 they have footage that looks like it was taken
from a Megaman cartoon series. Does anyone have any info on this series? Does it exist? Was it just released in Japan or was this footage just put together for the game? Any help would be appreciated.
Put together for the game. Happens a lot. However, there is a 3 episode anime that was produced several years ago, based on classic Mega. You can find fansubs throughout the internet. Standard "video game characters come to real world and cause mischief" schtick.
I used to think there was a Zelda anime back in the late 80's because of the high-quality, almost cel-like artwork on display in the instruction manuals for the two NES titles. o.o
Too bad. I am a big fan of Anime and would love to see megaman and all my favorite robot masters in an OVA series. There is a website (I lost the bookmark) where they give detailed profiles on the robot masters. Would be great to see them animated with personality instead of assuming they are just brainless robots, as they are depicted in the games. Except for MM8 that was the first time they were shown to be sentient and could talk.
Just another quick question do you know of any sites that have large pics of the robot masters? I am looking for pics of them done in the style like this background here, but the ones I find are pitifully small and are hard to see the detailing on each character
There was a Megaman Cartoon if that counts for anything, but I guess it doesn'
there was a MMX manga, but that's probably as close to anime as you're going to get.
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There was a Megaman Cartoon if that counts for anything, but I guess it doesn'
If you had seen it, you'd know the answer.
The Mega Man cartoon was kinda cool back when I was a kid and I thought it was the greatest thing to see Mega Man in action. But after seeing episodes of it in later years, like the episode where these lion-men started going around and shooting laser beams from their eyes to turn other people into lion-people, and where Doctor Light as always happened to come up with some kind of amazing invention to reverse the situation, it really struck me as a rather formulaic layout. Great for the kids, but not designed to appeal to the older fans. It was also not the anime-ish Mega Man that we know, but a more buff Mega Man.
Some of the concepts were cool, and it was the practical application of Mega Man's use of other robots' powers, as well as seeing how a world with robots would exist, that made the show worth watching. And you got to see a good variety of the robot masters, although I only remember seeing robot masters taken from the first five games.
If I remember correctly Cutman and Gutsman were the main masters. Almost every episode had a like a guest robot master I think.
The worst one for me was that episode where they made
my favorite robot master Quickman act like a poormans version of Blurr from the Transformers G1 series.
One thing I never liked about the Megaman cartoon, even as a kid, was how Megaman could defeat any of the robot masters with a single shot. To spend hours of my life blasting barrages of yellow bullets at those guys in the games, and to see them fall to pieces with one shot just didn't cut it very well. But I still liked the show regardless.
However, there is a 3 episode anime that was produced several years ago, based on classic Mega. You can find fansubs throughout the internet. Standard "video game characters come to real world and cause mischief" schtick.
ADV has released this OVA. It contains the classic Robot Masters from Megaman 5. It's called "Megaman: Upon A Star" anr runs typically 19-21 USD.
That Megaman cartoon was great, I remember getting so excited to see it in the morning. No anime could be better than that one.
We need a petition to get a Megaman X anime up. Although....
Day of Sigma from MM:MHX and the cutscenes from X3, X4 and X8 sure look like they could go into an anime... But they'd have lots of plot holes to contend with. Also, We'd have to have some sort of reason explaining why Sigma always ends up not dead.
Everywhere I go I look for Megaman anime.
All ive found is the beast old megaman anime, and the battle network one.
All of which I hate.
I can SWEAR there is a MM Zero anime out there. Its somewhere in japan, nowhere here, but its somewhere there.
Plotholes? Thats capcom for you. They never evolved on how humans dont like reploids, save the new MMZ. The first time in what, 40 Megaman games?
Trust me, if there were a Mega Man Zero anime anywhere you'd think it'd be a secret?
Because it was released only in japan? Heck I watch really good animes that were recently released to america, that arent even aired yet.
Megaman probably just didnt make it for some reason.
Were it released only in Japan, do you think that'd have stopped people on the internet from finding out about it, posting screenshots, and translating Japanese news bits?
Look at the info we've gotten on Rockman ZX - the vast majority of it was obtained via online translation of Japanese sources.
People knew about the Rockman.EXE-based anime long before it was released outside of Japan as well.
Oh, and to address an earlier point:
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They never evolved on how humans dont like reploids, save the new MMZ. The first time in what, 40 Megaman games?
Humans disliking reploids was never a huge point (try the other way around), and frankly, reploids haven't even been within 40 Mega Man games.
