Video: Here's A Closer Look At The New Cartoon Mega Man

Oh hi everyone!

This looks pretty myeh, but I'm sure kids'll love it

The New Megaman design remind me of Playhouse Disney 3D animation + Megaman outfits.

Wait a minute... What happend to the hand drawn animation?

Why do his eyes change colour?

My kid would love this. I hope this cartoon attract new little fans to Mega Man, so much needed.

I just don't like it; it's too kiddie and "Nickelodeon-esque" for it to appeal to me. It's annoying, because I actually think that when drawn right, cartoons can appeal to both kids and grown ups. And Mega Man is kinda a perfect candidate for that type of cartoon, seeing as most of the people interested in Mega Man are likely in their 30s or whatever.

@Tsurii "for kids"

And this is exactly where you're too ignorant to realise that's precisely where the problem lies.

There's zero reason this had to be made to only appeal to ten year olds, especially when most of the people who even give a crap about Mega Man are probably in their 30s and 40s at this point in time.

With a slightly different visual approach and design it could have been made to appeal to both kids and adults pretty easily—basically, just go with the original but draw it in HD.

So it's...like NT except he turns into Mega Man? That's really unexpected.

Anyway, I thought it was pretty cool except his arm cannon went Bad Box Art colours for a second there when it transformed. Gave me flashbacks.

@impurekind
That kiddie style is not bad.
Well, less Japanesque, more Western kiddie style.
Yeah, Nickelodeon + Mega Man = New Megaman. XD

Yeah....no...nononono...
Back to the Ruby-Spears show...

Megaman X > Megaman

can we get remakes of Megaman 1-4 in that style?
Powered Up still hurts

I don't understand why Capcom hasn't released Megaman.Exe on smart phones as a F2P style game

I guess it looks alright? Only time will tell.

@TossedLlama Cartoons today are actually pretty good with Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, Star vs The forces of Evil and Steven Universe. I think the problem these days there are so many cartoons, meaning we can get a lot more shovelware.

Awful but maybe the kids will love it.

Eh design looks horrible, but that seems to be a running theme for 3D animated kids shows these days. It's a lot easier and cheaper for animation companies to pump out all these cheap lazy kids shows without a second thought.

I mean, it doesn't look that bad.

This looks kinda bad...

Hm. Well, it may be something kids enjoy. Looks colorful and sort of Saturday morning like. I'd rather see this then some anime thay takes itself too seriously.

@Phin68 Those were animation tests. They weren't necessarily going to be 2D in the final animation.

@ZurapiiYohane See my above comment.

The sprite is a cute touch, but everything else is just embarrassing.

@Tsurii I have to agree with impurekind. The thing that doesn't bother me however is the design of Mega Man.

The theme song, Mega Mini, and his catchphrase however, made me cringe. Man of Action has done better than this and I can't believe Capcom approved of this...

"Mega-nize me!"? What is this, the 80s?

Also, one of the guys behind the show, well over a year ago stated that they were going to try to appeal to both the old and the new potential Mega Man fans... and to be brutally honest, as a Mega Man fan for 17-20 years, this is worrying.

He would look way better if his arm cannon made sense. I think he should be holding a pistol. I dislike the boy concept. A Mega Man if you will should look like he's a grizzled police veteran in blue riot gear from robocop. Mid 30's. Perhaps battling Quickman at a construction site. Yeah, that would be better 😑

@Alikan Nice sarcasm, but that's not the problem.

@Damo ...Video is blocked...lol

@ZurapiiYohane Uh, no.... The 2D animated stuff from a while ago was just animation tests. This video is a teaser to the actual show. As in... This is what the final product is going to look like.

@MegaVel91 I'm going to hold out hope for the show, but it's not looking too promising. Really the creators of this show should look no further than the current TMNT show to see how to adapt a franchise that's appealing to both kids and adults. It's got the kids humor, wonderfully mixed in with dark and heavy storytelling. Then for the fans that grew up with the franchise, clever callbacks to all the various iterations.

The video is blocked now but the first comment on the YouTube page was gold!

"Euthanize me!"

What is the point of some talented artist at Capcom basically perfecting the look and style of Mega Man back in the day if these modern douche-bags are just gonna go with something that looks so different and so crap comparatively?

They already pretty much nailed Mega Man's look in the frkin' '80s/'90s; see:

If you have to do a modern take on his look, even in 3D, then surely this would be more the general route to go down:

And this kind of thing, taken from the "X" series, would also look great too:

The design in the article above, however, looks like a deformed extra from Tron as imagined by a mediocre Nickelodeon artist.

What completely blind idiot at Capcom can't see the obvious difference between good and bad character design here?

Hate it. It looks awful. Why Capcom. Trying to cash in on Mega Man any way u can without making a new game I see.

@impurekind This is Capcom trying to reboot the franchise for a new audience... and failing.

@MegaVel91 Tell me about it.

Blue's Journey? Neo Geo reference right there, couldn't resist mentioning it.

I've never seen so many angry adults over how a kids cartoon looks. My goodness, what did you expect?

Sizzling circuits! I remember getting up at 5am to catch the American produced Megaman. This could be an enjoyable watch, even if the animation is lackluster. Better than squared off turtles and buck toothed Donatello at least...

@Whopper744 Cause the cartoon is of a franchise we've loved for years. Get with the program.

For anyone who managed to see the trailer, can you please describe what it was like? Much appreciated!

@MegaVel91 That's like me saying as a Disney fan, that I'm angry that Mickey Mouse Clubhouse exist for my daughter because it's not how the original Mickey was.

Reminds me a bit of that Pac-Man animated series from a few years back. The design looks okay to me but what they actually do with the series is what counts at the end.

Maybe this cartoon means we get some new Mega Man Games? Looking at that Pac-Cartoon again and its mediocre-to-bad videogame adaption, I think there's a good chance. Though, the better chance is that it's gonna suck.

@Whopper744 First. Us being angry has nothing to do with it existing. _{Please be nicer. -Morpheel}

Second. What we're angry about is how the show is being handled by Man of Action. They have every right to do the show how they want, that's true, and it will never be untrue, but Mega Man is a franchise with a long history in the game industry. We're well within our rights to criticize it as consumers and as fans of the Mega Man franchise we've loved for years.

You don't like it? That's not a problem on us, that's a problem on you.

Don't like how it looks.

Do like it will get a mega man video game to happen, even as a tie in.

Get the guy from gunman Clive

@MegaVel91 oh my, someone's grumpy. Tell you what, you keep fussing about your cartoon show here, and I'm going to try to focus a bit more on my job today.
Might want to work on those people skills a bit too sir.

@Whopper744 I work two jobs. Nice try at acting superior. You're not.

@MegaVel91 Says the guy picking fights on the internet.

@Whopper744 I wasn't picking fights. I was correcting you cause it's obvious you understood nothing about why people were angry or irritated about this.

@MegaVel91 Well you've got a bit of a point. I don't understand all of the fuss. Seeing someone starting off a convo with saying to Get with the program and telling someone to shove it was were I felt like it wasn't even worth discussing anymore.
To me acting like it's a personal attack that they made this cartoon seemingly strictly for kids is a bit overkill, even if you're a huge fan of something. Yeah it sucks adult fans can't enjoy it (Sonic Boom is a bit off putting to me for example) but it's just a cartoon/entertainment franschise/etc.
Sorry for my own attitude a bit, but that's pretty much where I'm coming from.

Ben10 meets MegaMan.

Kids today will like a character designed for 30+ year olds?

Hmm, well I can't find the trailer anywhere meaning that the production company is trying it's best to hide it from everyone... so much confidence.

Personally (based on the thumbnail) I think it looks a lot better... the faux-$1 animé style was pretty horrific.

It's really odd that shows that work for all ages have proven again & again to be the most successful, yet studios still cheap out on the animation. Hopefully this new Bob the Megaman Builder is well written.

I'm not a Mega Man fan so I'm out of alla of this "hey this design sucks, it doesn't respect the source material" argument, but I'll throw my 2 cents in.
I don't really like the design either, but I think it kinda makes sense if put in the perspective of a Nickelodeon cartoon; to me, though, what doesn't make sense is creating a Mega Man cartoon for kids at all.
I mean, Sonic got Boom, but it also had tie-in games, and Youkai Watch also had an anime series to go with the games; but Mega Man?
The last numbered release was a WiiWare sequel made in the style of an NES game, and the last release overall was an incomplete collection of old, tough-as-nails games.
This begs the question: if this cartoon is a tie-in meant to raise awareness about the Blue Bomber among kids, what is Capcom offering them to compliment the cartoon experience? Do they really expect kids to start playing old, frustrating games that have nothing to do with this incarnation of Mega Man?

I'm late to the party... Aww, would love to see that.

@KidRad They could be more talented back then (eg. Flash allows shortcuts, hand drawn doesn't), but they also had budged problems, maybe more than nowadays. There wasn't a dedicated cartoon TV program (like Dinsey chanel) - all cartoons were sponsored (aka they had to provide money to the sponsor), and were made to sell toys or merchendise of sort.
Depending on the cartoon, it maybe be pile of poop or a decent entertainment. Usually, it is a cheezy ride.

Nowadays there are more guys animating, there are faster tools and easier to allocate budged (which also means that creating a cartoon is cheaper). More cartoons can be 'artsy' (Samurai Jack), instead of being just a huge advert (pokemon). Sure, many of the cartoons of today have low standards, but just like in 80's, they are some pearls.

I thought it had a promising chance before if it was actually given the chance to air, like how Transformers Animated was actually really good despite the knee-jerk 'what is with that style' feeling. Now? The changes made after the first round of complaints look awful.

@subpopz I know, I'm just saying Megaman was most relevant in the NES/SNES days to people who are around 30+ today. I guess the Battle Network games on GBA/DS were popular for a new younger generation but they're not even making those anymore.

Why is his chin also his neck? It doesn't look like they did much and the story is still dumb. I'd love to be pleasantly surprised but I've a feeling that won't happen. Oh well, maybe we'll get some nice Robot Master figures for it before the show goes belly up. At least I've got Ruby/Spears Mega Man and Captain N to watch.

@MegaVel91

No no. The phrase your looking for is Mega-hi!

@KidRad What? Z was the one with all the animation errors every other episode

I came to this article a little to late. I couldn't see the video, lol

@KidRad Z was offmodel for 20 episodes straight at the time, making the art and animation bad, while super only suffers some bad art occasionally and offmodel errors happen rarely, and the new arc is great

Ah, to late!

@impurekind: I love that design for X, basically taking Rock, & putting a slim, techno spin on the design.

@Priceless_Spork: Johnny Quest, & Rocky & Bullwinkle are awesome. So were Jetsons. & Flintstones. I don't know about Jetsons, but Flintstones was originally an adult cartoon, for its time.

@Tempestryke: Captain N is where my username comes from, though I also use the form Capt_N, as in saying "Captain". That was one of my favorite game cartoons from that time-period of cartoons.

Hard to say, tbh. i guess it's an improvement from earlier concepts?
as for the show completely. that remains to be seen, i do really hope that in the end of the day, it ends up being good.

You know what? I'm suddenly really glad these people didn't try to adapt the X and Zero games. That would have been a nightmare.

@Tsurii I think the "It's a kids' show" argument automatically undermines said shows by saying that they are, by default, worse than other types of shows, when in reality, many adults are enjoying the kind of shows which are shown on channels like Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.

@KidRad The cheesyness of those cartoons is actualy the good thing. And morals almost were always (maybe excluding the very early slapstick cartoons and the propaganda ones) used in those cartoons - in any cartoon that is targeted to younger audience, that is. Captain Planet with race-equality and envirormental dillemas, even the old MLP had some cute friendship thingy going on. Gummi Bears, with family bonds and dealing with others, etc. What's more, modern cartoons often repeat the same morals and stories. Simply because they are very... archetypical, for lack of the better English world (I'm not native English speaker). To the point, that some episodes may even look identical.

Either way, both have pluses and minuses. Though, as @Priceless_Spork, I prefer even the older cartoons more. The Flinstones and Tom & Jerry were always my favourites to watch, for example.