Nintendo

What Nintendo franchises do you want to see adapted into animation and why?



Over the past decade, we’ve seen Nintendo characters show up in one piece of charming animation after another. It all started with the [Kid Icarus Uprising](https://youtu.be/8bCwBTp9e_M) trilogy of animated shorts, each one handled by a different studio. Then there was the [Pikmin Short Movies](https://youtu.be/233Z0WhDrak), originally released to promote Pikmin 3 on the Wii U and have since been reuploaded to Nintendo’s YouTube page. After that was [Star Fox Zero – The Battle Begins](https://youtu.be/wA2-0nTxaGg), a 15 minute animated short that served as a prologue to the game’s events. Following that was the [Yoshi’s Woolly World](https://youtu.be/_o6yvb5E2Sw) series of stop motion skits that coincided with the 3DS port in late 2016. And now we have the Mario movie from Illumination that we still don’t know a thing about. Even animations from cutscenes within Nintendo’s games make me smile, with the most prominent examples being the anime cutscenes for the [Link’s Awakening remake](https://youtu.be/QKSDts-tOaA), the wacky antics of the [WarioWare](https://youtu.be/PRWB5ukEs_8) crew from the last two entries, and Luigi just being Luigi in [Luigi’s Mansion 3](https://youtu.be/_1vsDB6RNko). I still silently hope for a Super Smash Bros. anime after seeing [Palutena’s reveal trailer](https://youtu.be/xqTW13AYniY) for Smash 4.