Next Year's Mega Man Cartoon Looks Certain To Maintain Proud Tradition Of Annoying Fans

I'll keep an eye out for this but I'm not gonna start judging till we get a teaser trailer.

HOW ABOUT MAKE A MEGA MAN GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!or complete Legends 3.

So basically Robotboy fused with My Life as a Teenage Robot? Not quite what I was expecting, I'll give 'em that.

Should have redone the Mega Man cartoon that never was.

Wow. Even Megaman in that concept art doesn't look all that excited.

They don't know what to do with Mega Man anymore.

So now Mega Man has reached an all time low by making even Mighty No. 9 look good.

@Tsurii I guess they may be trying to introduce the franchise to younger audiences that aren't very familiar with the ip.

I'll say, I would be worried, but the words "Man Of Action" mean Joe Kelly, and Joe Kelly means "no need to panic until and unless the first episode turns out to be awful".

Well, it could be worse. They could've have him the tmnt and sonic treatment, and put wraps on his hands, legs and feet for absolutely no reason. And we all know how receptive fans have been towards that.

I don't think it looks that bad, but I don't care much for Mega Man. What was wrong with his old design though?

Er... Since when has Mega Man had "an over-the-top sense of humor"?

I've been playing Mega Man 2 just to remind myself of the days when Mega Man was good. Before this and the terrible saga known as Mighty No. 9's development.

Is this a fan project or the actual thing? It looks awful.

Really, and people think that Capcom is doing fine as of now?

Honestly It's kinda funny how Mega Man fans keep getting their hopes and dreams crushed. Like, when you really think about it, it's year after year of disappointments, and not just because of the lack of Mega Man, but also because of what they choose to do with him. This, the anniversary collection that has less games than the first anniversary collection, Mighty No. 9 falling flat on its face at every opportunity, etc...

throws up

Ugh, i have a sore throat and this is making me want to vomit.

WOW. I really, really don't like the art style! But, I'll still give the show a chance, I do love me some Mega Man (or Aki Light, I guess..), and Man of Action has made some great shows!

This is aimed at kids and quite frankly I don't see the problem with the design. It looks alike a Mega Man for today's KIDS. People need to relax. Capcom isn't forcing anyone to watch it. Just do like I did when they released the new TMNT movies, don't watch them!!!!!!!!

This looks like someone's very elementary attempt at creating a Mega Man lookalike on one of those Flash-based "create your own avatar" websites that litter the Internet. And this is supposed to be from a professional company? That thing looks absolutely hideous, cheap, and awful. Asaph and Duncan, all that marketing-speak means absolutely nothing.

@DiscoGentleman Destructoid (one of my previous hangouts) is going down that route; seems like Nintendo Life may be as well.

@DiscoGentleman Check the author of all these types of articles and you'll see a pattern

Looks like they will be going with a action cartoon. Action cartoons haven't done all that well recently, so here's hoping this one does.

I saw this yesterday and threw up in my mouth a little bit. Man of Action is involved, so I'm reserving judgment (also it gives me a little hope), but the character design is really off putting. I feel like there was a way to do it without it looking like... Well I don't know what it looks like.

As far as the premise, I'm actually fine with it, I just view it as being in a seperate continuity, much like EXE (Battle Network) maybe we'll even get new video games out of this.

@luigifan624 the TMNT has had enough design revisions over the years from source material for me to not even care about the wraps, they honestly look alright to me. The movie Turtles however... (sigh)

Am I the only one why doesn't mind? The design looks new; so what? Things change and get updated. It doesn't mean that it'll automatically be bad.

I mean hey, even if Sonic Boom was bad the cartoon was pretty fun. Who's to say Capcom can't initiate a good cartoon?

@DiscoGentleman that's what I was thinking. The writer automatically assumes we all hate it. Though from what i'm seeing in the comments, it's not too far off. We're becoming quite prefictive, eh?

...at least he's left-handed.

OH GOD SOMETHING THAT DIFFERS AT ALL FROM MY PICTURE PERFECT CHILDHOOD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Is it a joke? Or serious?
I'm...speechless...look at the arms, the eyes, the body, the helmet, everything looks garbage.

@andrew20 They did and it wasn't that good. Face it, there's nothing to do with Mega Man at this point. Mega Man 9 and 10 ended up being a generic Mega Man game and Legends wasn't very good to begin with.

@Sir_JBizzle The Teenage Mutant Ghetto Turtles, yea that's really bad design all around. Only thing that's been done well, is the fact they are FINALLY adding Bebop and Rocksteady

My opinion on the suit: it's okay, but it will not sell well. The original Mega Man had a simple design that was easy to recognize and animate. Now, he wears a generic Tron suit that will be hard to remember. Kids like it when there cartoons are simple, not overly designed.

Megaman from tron?

The only thing that might save this is Man of Actions involvment. We shall see though.

What did Capcom do to you Mega Man?!

I'm just hoping that they make this better than the other kids superhero TV shows that are out today like Teen Titans Go and the new Powder Puff Girls...

Mega Man? More like Mega Kid. The old cartoon looked better than this, in my opinion.

What's with the angle now for heroes to be in school, since when does a robot need to go to school? Someone explain why this is a thing.

I think he looks fine, am I missing something?

How crazy is it that the most faithful interpretation of Mega Man we've seen in years was done by Nintendo in Super Smash Bros.? The design in Smash is excellent, and he acts and plays very much like the original without feeling dated.

Although, we should not forget to credit Capcom for the excellent 8-bit Mega Man games (9 and 10) on Wii Ware. I really wish they would bring those (and more sequels!) to the eShop.

I haven't played all the Mega Man games, but I have played a lot of them. In which game is he "a normal, upbeat, schoolboy robot"? I mean, I don't recall a Mega Man game where he goes to school. Why does a robot need to go to school in the first place?

"The best thing about Mega Man is his unflinching wide-eyed optimism and an over-the-top sense of humor." Uh.... wut?? The best thing about Mega Man is the difficult, super-tight platformng, challenging bosses, and weapon upgrades that give you a sense of accomplishment when you finally beat it. I don't recall Mega Man ever having any sense of humor, let alone an over-the-top one.

I get it that it's a kid's show but this just seems like a disaster to me. There's already a story line in place that they could build from. Mega Man was created by Dr. Light to battle Dr. Wily and prevent his robots from taking over the world... NOT to go to school!

Mega Man Boom

Wow. That's... Really ugly

So bad.

I mean, it's not like they don't have a perfectly well designed character to use already, and in cartoon form too, like this:

Or even:

O.0'

So...they combined Battle Network with ZX and gave it ye olde high school fanfic treatment? Ugh! This is horrifying!

Dear Capcom, I appreciate the effort in you trying to expand, but here's what you DO with Mega Man. Make new games. Also please make toys/figurines of all your bosses that aren't Original six, Sigma and Vile. You'll be rolling in dough and we'll be rolling in Mega Man games and merch.

Just look at his arms and thighs alone to see how seriously wrong they've gotten it. . . .

What, are they made out of pipe cleaners or straws or something?

What a joke!

I'd like to see anyone complain about the original Mega Man cartoon now! It stil looks great, gives them personality and is just a fun cartoon. I'm gonna go watch it today tohopefully cleanse my brain of this idiocy.

@Damo Keep injecting and overloading I say. While I don't always agree with you guys on certain things (Star Fox Zero, ahem), I do like that you impart much of your own personality into your articles and comments. And, sometimes it's good just to be honest and blunt, and definitely in this case, in my always so humble opinion.

@Tempestryke Yeah, the main character isn't quite perfect, maybe a bit too old and muscly compared to the classic boy-like Mega Man for no great reason, but overall it captures the look and feel of the Mega Man Universe brilliantly.

@CloudNine

Mega Man games on e-shop
You can still find the Battlenetwork, Starforce, Zero Collection and ZX games used at gamestop
Mega Man Legacy collection
Wii Mega Man games
Smash Bros.

Its not like the franchise is an obscure, hidden gem that hasn't gotten a game since the 90s.

Not cool, Megaman! Stealing Sonic's fur color...

In all seriousness though, I can barely even call "that" Megaman...

@A01

My theory? I've seen a lot of fans whine and beg for a Mega Man game and then complain when it happens. A lot of gamers act like spoiled, selfish brats, or at least the most vocal ones do. Maybe its Capcom's form of petty revenge?

Either that or they got burnt out, after pumping out multiple Mega Man games and needed a break?

Or both?

Take your pick.

To early to tell, I first need to see a episode (or a trailer)!

Hopefully this company notices everybody's negative reaction to this new design and hopefully they will improve upon it. But we are talking about Capcom and they don't really listen to anybody, only money 💵💶💴💰

Good day to not be that into mega man.

Kinda reminds me of what Capcom allowed with the off-the-mark, fan-fiction-y Resident Evil movies, so I guess it's not unprecedented on their part.

So this is basically My Life As A Teenage Robot with a gender-swap? M'kay then.

I was at first bothered by the design, but then realized that Mega Man from Battle Network (my favorite series in the franchise) would have been a departure for fans from the original as well.

Amazing. Mega Man can just never catch a break. Even the game that was supposed to be a "spiritual successor" looks terrible. It's like a curse.

@jedisquidward #39 "OH GOD SOMETHING THAT DIFFERS AT ALL FROM MY PICTURE PERFECT CHILDHOOD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

Nah, it's not only that. It also looks kinda cheap and all kinds of annoying. :J

Ew! (Throws up in mouth) Man today sucks. So glad I have all the mega man and x collections to wipe my memory of this crap. (Throws phone across office)

He looks constipated...XD

@GraveLordXD Azure Striker Gunvolt keeps the Blue Bomber's legacy alive! Highly recommended if you haven't checked it out yet...

I'm legitimately disgusted and I'm not even a Megaman fan. If that's not a bad sign...

@Damo Authors shouldn't be obnoxious to their readers...

@GraveLordXD

People complained about the Wii Mega Man games being more of the same.

They complain about MN9

Complained about the Legacy Collection.

They complained about the FPS, (I did too)

If they make a new Mega Man game and add it to the classic or X series, people will complain that its the same thing and if they make something new, they'll complain that its too far removed from it.
You just can't please some people.

@Yorumi

I've seen that specific complaining I just mentioned all across the board. People complain about Zelda and Mario and various franchises being more of the same or too different.

I've seen gamers whine and demand that companies do this or that as if its their goal solely to please them.

Not all gamers do this, but enough certainly act this way and its embarrassing and annoying to watch.

The worst offenders of acting like self-entitled brats are the Smash community.

The Capcom community isn't great and the Zelda community can get pretty nasty too.

Plus some people in life aren't happy unless they're unhappy.

Its not unfair, its just an observation I've made over the years.

@jedisquidward Amen brother. It seems that with all things Mega Man, this community turns into a bunch of Negative Nancys.

This just looks like a mix of Battle Network (you know, the one the younger gamers to which this series is targeted are probably more likely to remember) with the classic Mega Man, both in design and storyline. I personally never cared for the battle network series, and would have preferred they went with either X or the original mega man. But going all up in arms about how bad this is based on a single image is silly and childish.

@nab1

True, if we don't like it we don't hafta watch it. Someone will enjoy it.

@Yorumi I Said SOME of us, not ALL of us. And a lot of them act like spoiled toddlers. All you have to do is sift through threads on various gaming communities and watch a good chunk of them whine, demand and bicker. Occasionally you'll luck out and find chill, more mature communities.

@Yorumi I make this point to people constantly. Calling gamers "entitled" makes zero sense. Perhaps some people might have unrealistic expectations given the scope of the market or the resources available to given players in said market, but as you said, gamers are not slaves who are obligated to choke down whatever swill these companies throw at them.

This is especially pertinent for Nintendo. The Big N might have been able to get away with its imperious, papa-knows-best approach to consumer relations in the past because they had cornered the market, so to speak, and were in a position to throw their weight around. Given that Nintendo is no longer the big fish in the water, though, not listening to its fans is a path that will lead either to bankruptcy or them reducing their presence in the industry to whatever extent they deem necessary.

@Damo While I respect your opinion, please don't turn into those other sites where every article is basically "here's another thing you should hate, because reasons". The one thing I really, really like about Nintendo Life and keeps me coming back, it's how upbeat, positive and 'fun' you guys all are, at least that's how I view it, but an article like this (or at least, the way it's written) goes pretty much against that, in my opinion

@Ralizah
No but plenty of them act as if they're owed. A legitimate complaint of a genuinely bad game, or multiple problems or bad practices I can understand. But creating catch 22 situations or I want this and this and that and then complaining about it iis ridiculous.

@Damo I think in this case you're entitled to react to this in the way you have. Because, come on, it looks absolutely awful! I was surprised by the amount of non-negative comments about it. Having said that, I think you should leave the argumentative comments to the readers - you already know you're right.

@Damo Fair enough. But do you honestly think this particular bit of news is so unequivocally "bad" to warrant such a response?

@Tempestryke They are owed a product they want if the company producing and releasing said product wants to make money off of it.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying a company should cater to every passing whim of their consumer base. A company ultimately needs to have its own vision and identity, and sometimes good ideas are worth defending from the vagaries of public opinion. But when the people who buy your products keep asking for the same thing year after year, and you keep ignoring them, that seems like a great way to violate whatever trust you've established with them in the past and puts you on the path to irrelevance.

And, frankly, it is our proper role as consumers to demand the things we want and make known our displeasure about the things we don't want. How else is a company supposed to know that it's not holding up its end of the consumer-producer relationship?

@Yorumi Up to a certain extent I agree with you. But we are not owed a new Smash character because the onewe wanted didn't make the cut this time around.

Its stupid to demand a game follow the exact same formula and then complain that the company never does anything different, while refusing to notice the new little features put in it

We are not owed a limited edition re-release just because we couldn't buy it at the time it came out.

As consumers, we demand with our wallet, and we don't have to be jerks about it.

@Ralizah
I agree with you 100%, all I'm saying is that this fanbase can get pretty bad.

@Damo No probs.

@Yorumi Look its obvious we're going in circles. You seem to repeatedly ignore the fact that I've said Some not All act like this and as a final note just because I'm part of a fanbase, doesn't mean I'm going to stick my head in the sand and act like the bad behavior many of its members doesn't exist.

@Tempestryke Some are worst than others. The Smash community can get pretty bad at times. The Smash games are a good example of a developer listening to fans without caving in to all of their demands. Smash 4 might not be the Melee 2.0 that a lot of the hardcore fans wanted, but it does backtrack on a lot of the features in Brawl that people hated. Ultimately, it stays true to Sakurai's vision of the game as an accessible party game while also throwing bones to the competitive scene.

Definitely not saying fans don't get nasty and unreasonable at times, but I can see why companies like Capcom, Konami, and even Nintendo inspire so much anger with their boneheaded decisions.

Jesus, that looks atrocious. As far as character design goes, even MN9's Beck looks better.

Cant they just make him look like this:

Not this!!

@GH05T
That probably has to be one of the worst re-designs of Mega Man that I've seen, plus it's not even a faithful adaption to the original Blue Bomber.

I don't know if that is what they were going for, but this is what came to mind when I saw this look for the blue bomber...

Kudos Damien- that is one fine headline

Ha ha, great joke, NLife. When are you going to remove that ugly MS Paint bitmap and let us see the actual image?

I don't hate it. Like Sonic Boom, I'm not going to whinge over everything that's not 100% "the way it should be". Also like Sonic Boom it will make dismissing it easier if the content is terrible.

I do not like the look of this Mega Man, I would have preferred they stuck with the design we are all used to.

Doesn't look bad, actually. You can't use the canon Mega Man for a project like this; you're bound to disappoint fans if you do that. Let this Mega Man be an original character in a unique universe. Just make sure he stays interesting and honors his source material, Dentsu.

(Also, use the profit from this show to help Capcom to actually fund a new (good) game, please)

People complain about his appearence and throw in NES MM designs here like they should've been used or... So I guess all of you threw X, Battlenetwork and other games in the series straight into garbage without trying them and crying "Y DEY CHANGD MANMEG!!!????".
Unless you're hypocrites, of course, which would surprise nobody.

Looks certain to entice anime fans home alone on prom night.

Sonic Boom, Pac Man Ghostly Adventures, and now this? Looks pretty bland to me. I could be wrong though.

Are they trying to make this bad on purpose?

@DiscoGentleman @Tsurii Nintumblr Life?

Such a calm, cool face. With his icy blue eyes, iconic crouched balancing pose, and sharp new lighting indicating an upgraded body rig and OS, Mega Man is ready. And he stares into your eyes, giving a soft grin, telling you what he's thinking without saying a word:

"OH GOD PLEASE KILL ME NOW"

The mouth in that picture... ugh. With that, I'm out.

That 1994 cartoon pitch looked like everything I could ask for from a great Mega Man cartoon based on the original series

Look a bit cartoony but hey at least it's not bad box art Mega Man.

Looks fairly fruity!!!

It isn't so bad, at least it stays true to the original unlike other redesigns. I don't like how he is now the cliched "normal, upbeat, schoolboy"

The first Ben 10 series (all the sequels were hot garbage) and Generator Rex were okay, but Marvel's Avengers Assemble is bad (the Avengers show it replaced was better in every way), and Ultimate Spider-Man terrible (the Spider-man show it replaced was better in every way), given the obvious pattern of the degradation of show quality from this company, I can't say this I'm very optimistic about this Mega man show, which I would wager is a cheap cash in to attempt to sell toys to kids like the awful new Powerpuff Girls show.

Mega Man Boom.

It's the eyes... they're not round enough or innocent-looking enough... that's not the Mega Man we know... please, go back to the drawing board, I want to support this but not when the Blue Bomber looks so half-baked!

A younger target audience is no excuse for terribly half-a*$ed artwork.. The artists should have studied Tezuka's art style (creator of speed racer, astro boy, and many other amazing animations). I'm getting a bit off topic here, but seriously if you haven't heard of Osamu Tezuka. Go ahead on youtube and watch his absolutly amazing animations.

Lol wow.they are worried about the new generation of kids lol.hello this gen of kids only care about call of dookie games.80s/90s kids made mega man who he is.didnt know they hate us original fans.o yea that's right they do.

@johnodaz There Was A Cartoon Way Back when.i Don't Mean CAPTIN N The GAME master.

Yeah I get what people are saying, but you guys, as much as it irks me to say it, are acting like it's the end of everything plus the whole hate thing is destined or something the moment stuff happens. I'm skeptical of the design for this animated series, but I'm not acting like every new thing is bad. Besides this is just the animated show. I don't know if they are going to do a Megaman game after all this.

From the sound (and look) of this, I think I'd rather they just air reruns of "Mega Man: NT Warrior."

I had to wait a day to open the article because the thumbnail with his face was so bad..... Not enough time to prepare, should have waited a year or 10.

It doesn't matter what you do Capcom, you cannot kill the Mega Man that is already out in the wild!

I'm not much of a Megaman fan, so this doesn't affect me much.(I really only enjoyed the Legends games) But why are people acting like this is the first time he's gotten a new look?

I'm so sure every other MM sub-series design is universally loved.

@3MonthBeef That's often true about what incarnation one was exposed to first. Me personally I played some of the X games first, and got into Legends a bit later. Its been one of my favorite games for a long time now.

I just prefer the adventure and exploration elements of the Legends series, to very tired NES style that honestly comes across as lazy after the first 3; let alone up to 10.

With the TV show design itself, I'm pretty sure this isn't a fully-accurate image of what he'll look like in the show. It seems like concept art more than anything.

At least he's blue; unlike 4 of those other MM incarnations above. That should count for something right?

In this thing's defence, Mega Man was always drastically changing it's plot, tone, setting and art style over the years. It's always kind of been a product of it's time, Mega Man X has that grungy dark sci-fi 90s anime aesthetic to it, Battle Network fitted right in with stuff like Pokémon, Digimon and Beyblade, plenty of Mega Man incarnations have been products of their time, so this vaguely Ben 10-looking guy is pretty much what I would of expected.

Am I gonna watch it? Doubt it, for the same reasons I didn't care for Battle Network. I prefer that 90s anime tone and aesthetic I mentioned before from X. Despite that though, it's doing it's own seperate thing in a seperate continuity, so I don't really feel the need to judge it as classic Mega Man. Of course, when Battle Network was at the height of it's popularity, there was still the Zero series to satisfy the classic Mega Man fans who wanted platforming over role-playing, but there's no alternative here, so I can see that irritating some classic Mega Man fans.

I don't know what to make of this thing. I'm totally ambivalent; I don't feel enthusiasm or disappointment, just nothing.

@PanicPuppet92
I don't know about others but I am not acting like it's the first time he got a new look as I've played most of the spin off series. I am reacting to how horrible this look is. It's horrible, just horrible.

Only in the internet-era can anyone be annoyed before they see something come to fruition. Not that this looks exciting in any way, of course.

@3MonthBeef Yeah I really don't follow much either. I know of Megaman Zero and Megaman ZX, but the middle reddish ones look so similar.

But bottom line: Megaman isn't soley the NES incarnation to people, and others shouldn't be so quick to judge an entire unaired TV series based on (most likely) unfinished production artwork.

Though I personally don't care much myself, I just want to give it a fair chance.

But there's already been multiple animes, and a western cartoon! Why do they have to butcher it like this?