One of my biggest issues with the F-Zero anime was grouping everyone up into "The Good Guys", "The Bad Guys" and "Everyone Else", and then basically making every non-human except for Leon and Mr. EAD one of the bad guys. There's some MASSIVE character assassination going on with that. I'd actually like to go over the issues with how things were changed: - Jack Levin was a former pop star and had zero connections with law enforcement in the main series. Now, it's possible for him to switch careers and join the Galactic Federation like that, but the series implies that after he left the Bloody Chain, he was both a pop star AND a member of the Galactic Federation Elite Mobile Task Force _simultaneously._ Those are mutually exclusive jobs. I do like adding his connections to the Bloody Chain, since it gives him more backstory, but his tie-in to the Elite Mobile Task Force doesn't work the way it's presented. - Dr. Stewart was a surgeon in the main timeline. Rob's another character who could have changed careers at one point, possibly going into forensics in his case, but again, the anime implies he was always a member of the EMTF. - Mr. EAD has no business being a part of the EMTF. He was developed as an experimental android platform in the main series. The version of Mr. EAD we saw was basically a COMPLETELY different character and they could have just made a different character outright at that point. - Zoda's connection with Black Shadow via Dark Million is kinda dumb. Zoda is noted to be an EXTREMELY unpredictable, Joker-like villain, albeit with less thinking, more doing, and no clowns. A character like that works best as their own villain, not as someone else's lackey. I do like the whole rivalry with Ryu Suzaku, but that's probably the only thing the series does right with his character, and even then it's done as a _replacement_ for his rivalry with the Arrows (who I'll also talk about further down). - Octoman got a full-on "Ron the Death Eater" treatment, going from a somewhat sympathetic character to an ineffective and uninteresting "goldfish poop squad" villain. They probably did that because 1. he's ugly and 2. he was copied and pasted into Star Fox Command as a part of the Anglar Armada - but those are COMPLETELY different characters who just share the same name and appearance. They're not even from the same franchise! - Bio Rex got the same treatment as Octoman but doesn't even have Star Fox Command as an excuse. Granted, Bio Rex's main series characterization boils down to "likes to eat, eats meat, and keep in mind that you happen to be made of meat" so there's not much to go by, but turning him into an ineffective and completely uninteresting "goldfish poop squad" villain doesn't fix that. Not to mention GP Legend's story mode kept using him as a Chuck Testa gag... - Can someone explain to me why Baba is a villain in the anime? Because the anime itself doesn't even make an attempt to justify it. All they say is that "Zoda did it". - Pico's changes are relatively small, but significant. In the main series he absolutely hates Black Shadow. In the anime, he's gladly willing to take jobs from him. Fun fact: In GP Legend and Climax, he still has blue engine exhaust, not purple, despite purple engine exhaust being used to denote villains. - Gomar and Shioh... just... why are they villains? Because they think Black Shadow is cool? What the fuck... - The Skull... talk about typecasting. Skeletor became a memelord villain and now every single skeleton has to copy him? Seriously? Let The Skull be his own pile of bones. - Don Genie and Deathborn being "alter egos" of Black Shadow... why? Deathborn being the chairman of the F-Zero committee was kinda neat, but I feel that would have worked better had he and Don been their own characters rather than just "Black Shadow in a costume". - Leon doesn't escape this analysis either, despite being part of "everyone else". What I don't like about what they did with him was that they made him a werewolf. First off, before anyone goes on about the whole "Leon is a cat, not a wolf" issue, I consider GX's appearance to be his canon appearance, and in that game he's more canine than feline in appearance, so I'm not bothered by him being a wolf in general. He's an alien that just happens to resemble Earth felines/canines anyway so it's a bit of a moot point. What bothers me about him is that apparently, to be able to make him sympathetic, the writers for the show had to make his "default" form human, even though he's already one of the most likeable characters in the entirety of F-Zero. Were they afraid they were going to offend some basement dwelling neckbeard 4channer who goes into a blind rage the moment he sees an anthropomorphic animal regardless of context? - The Arrows. We don't really see much of them in the main series but it's implied that Super Arrow is a bit of a goofball but competent and that Mrs. Arrow is incredible at both racing and crimefighting. Meanwhile, in the anime... they're a total joke. Mrs. Arrow also got completely stripped of one of the things that made her unique in the main series - her previous career as a bodybuilder. This made her both visually distinct (muscular rather than slender and curvy) and characteristically unique (bodybuilding isn't the first thing you'd think of when it comes to women's sports). I have quite a few other complaints (such as the Mary Sueness of the Dragon Bird), but all the characterization changes, lumping characters into groups, and in the case of many of them outright character assassination are probably the biggest ones.
I interpreted the Deathborn and Don Genie reveal as being Black Shadow’s way of operating more effectively. Think about it; if you have a great deal of influence on the biggest source of cash in the Galaxy, alongside a secondary way to get a lot of dough, wouldn’t you be able to get lots more funding for your activities? I believe Climax mentioned that Haruka’s Moon Shadow wasn’t cheap to create.
Me personally what I would've done, being a GX nut: -Don't have Octoman as an evil henchman (at least not at first). At most have him be a comic relief character who is trying to do good for his people, but is constantly getting outshined by the ambitions of the other racers. Particularly Falcon and Ryu. -Have at least one scene with fat shark in it. Maybe Don Genie wants to ensure the result of a race he had bet on? Have it be revealed toward the end that Black Shadow was merely a puppet, and have the final race/duel be against Deathborn in the Dark Schneider. Alternative to this idea: keep Captain Falcon' sacrifice the same, but have an extra arc dedicated to Ryu having to battle Deathborn without Falcon's help. These are the changes I could think of. I'd also add that having Gommar & Shio, The Skull, and Baba be villains/trying to be villains didn't make a lot of sense. A lot of the non-Human characters got character-assassinated really unfairly in my opinion. This doesn't kill my enjoyment of the show, but it left me sour initially in the first few episodes.
Some thing to deal with, Captain Falcon is best known for Smash Bros, but he's not the main character in the anime. In Smash, he's known for punching people, but he rarely does much hand-to-hand. Making him the main character using the game timelines is tough because he's already the champ the games. So he needs a big challenge to overcome to drive the story forward. I say have the anime start in a prequel era where Captain Falcon is just a police officer. He hasn't gotten into racing yet, but he is noticeably better at high speed chases than his fellow officers. Black Shadow had an evil plan, Falcon had a chance to catch him early, but space federation red-tape didn't allow him to act. Black Shadow succeeds in this huge heist and gets his criminal organization going. Falcon leaves the police force and becomes a bounty hunter so he can act independently. Falcon needs money to operate, so he enters the GP for the lucrative prizes. From there you build up Falcon's racing skills and have him catch a lot of low level criminals until he really starts to make a name for himself. A few other things: -Keep Goroh as an honorable pirate. Anime Goroh is a lot cooler than game Goroh. He's a bigger threat when he's more competent. -Keep Super Arrow as the goofy comic relie he was. Probably one of the most entertaining characters. -Things like super powers and black magic are part of the lore, so that should give some insight, but not a complete answer, on how Falcon Punch works. Keep some mystery to it, but give enough to tickle the imagination. -Have it be revealed that the big accident that got the races temporarily banned wasn't really an accident. It was an assassination attempt by Black Shadow on Falcon, Mighty Gazelle got the worst of it. -Have Deathborn, Don Genie, and possibly be the Creators be main villains later, after Black Shadow is beaten.
The only thing I would change would be how the races look. I'm fine with the CG, but I would have loved it if they had used the animation style of the rest of the anime.
Episode 39 (I think it’s that one, the one where Blood Falcon tries to disband the Task Force), is hands down my least favorite episode. Mainly due to the fact that the rest of the team suddenly does not take Clank seriously when he tries to warn them about Blood Falcon, despite having been part of the team for a while now and being a competent tech wizard. A small but effective change that would greatly elevate this episode is if BF tried to blackmail Clank into keeping his mouth shut by threatening to destroy his father’s brain. This would raise the stakes and have Clank try (and fail for plot reasons, let’s be honest) to find some loopholes to warn his friends. Also, it was probably due to budget and time constraints, but the final episode felt a bit too fast-paced. It would’ve been better if it was a two parter or a special long episode. Imagine extending the final sequence to fluidly include the full main theme.
Year old video but I figured I'd chime in as I'm actually quite the fan of the anime, however I do think it has some weird problems. First and foremost I'm operating under the idea that GP Legend is remaining is own distinct continuity with its own ideas, so its got some leeway in altering and rewriting characters, but I do think the characters should at their core remain recognizable to their original selves. So things like lumping Dr. Stewart and Dr. Clash and Mr. EAD into the federation's task force is fine, but characters like the Skull or Baba becoming villains of the week are out, but characters like Octoman or Bio-Rex being recurring henchmen I think are fine. For Octoman its because he's still trying to support Takora through any means possible; Bio-Rex is a big stupid dinosaur who only likes to eat and drink so its not very difficult to see him being hired to do goon work. For Dr. Stewart and Dr. Clash its a simple manner of the Federation cast herd needing professionals for their specified roles (ie medicine and mechanics) for the heroes to rely on when someone gets hurt or needs their machine repaired. Anyway the character changes that stuck out to me for the worse are: -The Arrows. This is basically one everyone agrees on, the Arrows being made into total jokes as opposed to legitimate (if somewhat silly) superheroes. Mrs. Arrow especially suffers as she's supposed to be the "pants" of the relationship and her being made ineffectual totally misses the point of the characters. Also, have them be Zoda's rivals in the future time. I'm ok with Ryu having a past with Zoda, but this could have been something they could have bonded over, and even had the Arrows upgrade from side characters to main characters. -Jack Levin. He's supposed to be a pop star, a rock and rolling racer, him being part of the Federation just really misses the point of his character. There's others who could fit the role he had just fine (ie being a rival to Ryu). I suppose they didn't want too much overlap with Kate Alen, but Kate is a fairly minor character to begin with, and the anime never even uses Jack's status as a performer to begin with, so I'm not sure what was up here beyond Jack being a Hot Young Anime Boy. Personally, I think Leon would have been a good fit here, especially since his own deal is he's a young teenage upstart with no experience and no know-how trying to do what he can to support his civil war embroiled homeworld. Plus we need more aliens on the hero side of things. -Zoda. Zoda being an underling of Black Shadow I am actually ok with, the anime was consolidating its heroes and villains underneath easily recognizable factions, so having several different badguys all running around with different agendas not conductive to the main plot could have been confusing. What I am not ok with, though, is how Zoda and Shadow's relationship was depicted. Zoda being this career villain bootlicking to Black Shadow to overthrow him isn't Zoda's vibe; Zoda's vibe is an unpredictable agent of chaos. If Miss Killer was to be Black Shadow's dedicated hitwoman, then Zoda should've been the wild card that acts on his own accord and Black Shadow uses that to his advantage. -Don Genie and Deathborn. There was no reason these guys had to be consolidated into Black Shadow given the roles they perpetuate. I would've used Don Genie as sort of the "season 1" antagonist as the Federation tries to bust down his crime ring and have the various henchman characters be answering to him or his proxy agents, then build up from that to Black Shadow, Zoda and Miss Killer. For Deathborn, I might have just kept him out entirely. Not because I dislike the character, but because Black Shadow in the context of GP Legend is already the "man behind the man". Deathborn maybe could have been an alias of his still, but I find it overall distracting. -Miscellaneous characters becoming one-off henchmen. The big ones here are Skull, Gomar and Shioh, and Baba. The Skull just loves to race, and he loves to race so much he came back from the dead to do it. He could still be a one-off antagonist, but they should have made it more about Ryu's own racing compulsions. Like have a faustian race over his soul kind of deal. Tie into the death and reaper elements without him being evil, make it a character focus episode where Ryu has to really think about what's important to him. Gomar and Shioh should never be antagonists, period, they're funny little guys who everyone loves, their focus episode should be about their bond. Baba, too, should not be a villain, but can be an antagonist through the fact he's a haughty, hyperactive tryhard who has been ego-inflated by a talent scouting agency. He should be someone that Ryu struggles to beat, but once he does it brings down his massive pride, not a henchman. -John Tanaka. This is a minor one, but it bugs me hard, but why does he pine for Kate Alen so much? He's supposed to be infatuated with Jody. I don't mind that they rewrote him from chief mechanic to basically a pencil pushing middle management stooge, as his overbearing and ineffectual leadership fits his character well, but why they didn't try to build on his canonical love interest whom he has way more chances of interacting with confuses me. It would've made good drama too given anime Jody is much more of a hardboiled tough cop than her upstart ace rookie angle from the games.
1: Make Silver important 2: Make the picture at the end of Lap 20 important 3: Make Antonio Guster the brother of Lisa Brilliant 4: Make Jody Captain Falcon’s girlfriend
I don't have the highest opinion of the anime. I blame its overall lack of success (both in general ratings and the sales figures of the tie-in titles) as the main reason why the franchise hardly ever gets touched by Nintendo at this point. I also find the art style pretty hard to look at as it looks relatively cheap (that and the weird oddities like Rick's humongous forehead in some shots and Jody's extremely long neck in other shots). That being said, I am glad that F-Zero Climax does exist. The art in that game is SOO much better than GP Legend's art, and that game fixed a lot of issues that I had with GP Legend's game. If the anime and the tie-in games were successful internationally, then I think we would've had way more F-Zero titles. However, they weren't, so we had to wait for 19 years to get 99. Here's to hoping that we won't have to wait another 19 years for a new game!
I just hate the F Zero anime with a passion. I really don't like the fact that the anime canon ressembles the F-Zero games, but with numerous small differencies. At first these differences look not important, but when you make the sum you discover that the setting is almost completely different. Octoman and Baba being bad guys, Lightning as its own distinct planet, the fact that numerous piltos work for the Mobile Task Force ... I even do not like the visual style very much. It's closer to Dragon Ball than Judge Dredd or other american comics that inspired F-Zero in the first place.
I wouldn't compare it to Dragon Ball. The artstyle is really closer to Cowboy Bebop if anything, but with CGI vehicles similar to Initial D or Wangan Midnight. If it was in Akira Toriyama's style, the character designs would be simpler and the vehicles would be absurdly complex and hand-drawn.
One of my biggest issues with the F-Zero anime was grouping everyone up into "The Good Guys", "The Bad Guys" and "Everyone Else", and then basically making every non-human except for Leon and Mr. EAD one of the bad guys. There's some MASSIVE character assassination going on with that. I'd actually like to go over the issues with how things were changed:
- Jack Levin was a former pop star and had zero connections with law enforcement in the main series. Now, it's possible for him to switch careers and join the Galactic Federation like that, but the series implies that after he left the Bloody Chain, he was both a pop star AND a member of the Galactic Federation Elite Mobile Task Force _simultaneously._ Those are mutually exclusive jobs. I do like adding his connections to the Bloody Chain, since it gives him more backstory, but his tie-in to the Elite Mobile Task Force doesn't work the way it's presented.
- Dr. Stewart was a surgeon in the main timeline. Rob's another character who could have changed careers at one point, possibly going into forensics in his case, but again, the anime implies he was always a member of the EMTF.
- Mr. EAD has no business being a part of the EMTF. He was developed as an experimental android platform in the main series. The version of Mr. EAD we saw was basically a COMPLETELY different character and they could have just made a different character outright at that point.
- Zoda's connection with Black Shadow via Dark Million is kinda dumb. Zoda is noted to be an EXTREMELY unpredictable, Joker-like villain, albeit with less thinking, more doing, and no clowns. A character like that works best as their own villain, not as someone else's lackey. I do like the whole rivalry with Ryu Suzaku, but that's probably the only thing the series does right with his character, and even then it's done as a _replacement_ for his rivalry with the Arrows (who I'll also talk about further down).
- Octoman got a full-on "Ron the Death Eater" treatment, going from a somewhat sympathetic character to an ineffective and uninteresting "goldfish poop squad" villain. They probably did that because 1. he's ugly and 2. he was copied and pasted into Star Fox Command as a part of the Anglar Armada - but those are COMPLETELY different characters who just share the same name and appearance. They're not even from the same franchise!
- Bio Rex got the same treatment as Octoman but doesn't even have Star Fox Command as an excuse. Granted, Bio Rex's main series characterization boils down to "likes to eat, eats meat, and keep in mind that you happen to be made of meat" so there's not much to go by, but turning him into an ineffective and completely uninteresting "goldfish poop squad" villain doesn't fix that. Not to mention GP Legend's story mode kept using him as a Chuck Testa gag...
- Can someone explain to me why Baba is a villain in the anime? Because the anime itself doesn't even make an attempt to justify it. All they say is that "Zoda did it".
- Pico's changes are relatively small, but significant. In the main series he absolutely hates Black Shadow. In the anime, he's gladly willing to take jobs from him. Fun fact: In GP Legend and Climax, he still has blue engine exhaust, not purple, despite purple engine exhaust being used to denote villains.
- Gomar and Shioh... just... why are they villains? Because they think Black Shadow is cool? What the fuck...
- The Skull... talk about typecasting. Skeletor became a memelord villain and now every single skeleton has to copy him? Seriously? Let The Skull be his own pile of bones.
- Don Genie and Deathborn being "alter egos" of Black Shadow... why? Deathborn being the chairman of the F-Zero committee was kinda neat, but I feel that would have worked better had he and Don been their own characters rather than just "Black Shadow in a costume".
- Leon doesn't escape this analysis either, despite being part of "everyone else". What I don't like about what they did with him was that they made him a werewolf. First off, before anyone goes on about the whole "Leon is a cat, not a wolf" issue, I consider GX's appearance to be his canon appearance, and in that game he's more canine than feline in appearance, so I'm not bothered by him being a wolf in general. He's an alien that just happens to resemble Earth felines/canines anyway so it's a bit of a moot point. What bothers me about him is that apparently, to be able to make him sympathetic, the writers for the show had to make his "default" form human, even though he's already one of the most likeable characters in the entirety of F-Zero. Were they afraid they were going to offend some basement dwelling neckbeard 4channer who goes into a blind rage the moment he sees an anthropomorphic animal regardless of context?
- The Arrows. We don't really see much of them in the main series but it's implied that Super Arrow is a bit of a goofball but competent and that Mrs. Arrow is incredible at both racing and crimefighting. Meanwhile, in the anime... they're a total joke. Mrs. Arrow also got completely stripped of one of the things that made her unique in the main series - her previous career as a bodybuilder. This made her both visually distinct (muscular rather than slender and curvy) and characteristically unique (bodybuilding isn't the first thing you'd think of when it comes to women's sports).
I have quite a few other complaints (such as the Mary Sueness of the Dragon Bird), but all the characterization changes, lumping characters into groups, and in the case of many of them outright character assassination are probably the biggest ones.
Silver needs a bigger role
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Silver's one of the characters I'd say they did a good job on, even if it was only for a single episode.
I interpreted the Deathborn and Don Genie reveal as being Black Shadow’s way of operating more effectively. Think about it; if you have a great deal of influence on the biggest source of cash in the Galaxy, alongside a secondary way to get a lot of dough, wouldn’t you be able to get lots more funding for your activities? I believe Climax mentioned that Haruka’s Moon Shadow wasn’t cheap to create.
Me personally what I would've done, being a GX nut:
-Don't have Octoman as an evil henchman (at least not at first). At most have him be a comic relief character who is trying to do good for his people, but is constantly getting outshined by the ambitions of the other racers. Particularly Falcon and Ryu.
-Have at least one scene with fat shark in it. Maybe Don Genie wants to ensure the result of a race he had bet on?
Have it be revealed toward the end that Black Shadow was merely a puppet, and have the final race/duel be against Deathborn in the Dark Schneider.
Alternative to this idea: keep Captain Falcon' sacrifice the same, but have an extra arc dedicated to Ryu having to battle Deathborn without Falcon's help.
These are the changes I could think of.
I'd also add that having Gommar & Shio, The Skull, and Baba be villains/trying to be villains didn't make a lot of sense. A lot of the non-Human characters got character-assassinated really unfairly in my opinion. This doesn't kill my enjoyment of the show, but it left me sour initially in the first few episodes.
Some thing to deal with, Captain Falcon is best known for Smash Bros, but he's not the main character in the anime. In Smash, he's known for punching people, but he rarely does much hand-to-hand. Making him the main character using the game timelines is tough because he's already the champ the games. So he needs a big challenge to overcome to drive the story forward.
I say have the anime start in a prequel era where Captain Falcon is just a police officer. He hasn't gotten into racing yet, but he is noticeably better at high speed chases than his fellow officers. Black Shadow had an evil plan, Falcon had a chance to catch him early, but space federation red-tape didn't allow him to act. Black Shadow succeeds in this huge heist and gets his criminal organization going. Falcon leaves the police force and becomes a bounty hunter so he can act independently. Falcon needs money to operate, so he enters the GP for the lucrative prizes. From there you build up Falcon's racing skills and have him catch a lot of low level criminals until he really starts to make a name for himself.
A few other things:
-Keep Goroh as an honorable pirate. Anime Goroh is a lot cooler than game Goroh. He's a bigger threat when he's more competent.
-Keep Super Arrow as the goofy comic relie he was. Probably one of the most entertaining characters.
-Things like super powers and black magic are part of the lore, so that should give some insight, but not a complete answer, on how Falcon Punch works. Keep some mystery to it, but give enough to tickle the imagination.
-Have it be revealed that the big accident that got the races temporarily banned wasn't really an accident. It was an assassination attempt by Black Shadow on Falcon, Mighty Gazelle got the worst of it.
-Have Deathborn, Don Genie, and possibly be the Creators be main villains later, after Black Shadow is beaten.
The only thing I would change would be how the races look. I'm fine with the CG, but I would have loved it if they had used the animation style of the rest of the anime.
Episode 39 (I think it’s that one, the one where Blood Falcon tries to disband the Task Force), is hands down my least favorite episode. Mainly due to the fact that the rest of the team suddenly does not take Clank seriously when he tries to warn them about Blood Falcon, despite having been part of the team for a while now and being a competent tech wizard. A small but effective change that would greatly elevate this episode is if BF tried to blackmail Clank into keeping his mouth shut by threatening to destroy his father’s brain. This would raise the stakes and have Clank try (and fail for plot reasons, let’s be honest) to find some loopholes to warn his friends.
Also, it was probably due to budget and time constraints, but the final episode felt a bit too fast-paced. It would’ve been better if it was a two parter or a special long episode. Imagine extending the final sequence to fluidly include the full main theme.
Interesting thoughts there , I agree with most of them. Great video as always . I like videos like these.
Year old video but I figured I'd chime in as I'm actually quite the fan of the anime, however I do think it has some weird problems.
First and foremost I'm operating under the idea that GP Legend is remaining is own distinct continuity with its own ideas, so its got some leeway in altering and rewriting characters, but I do think the characters should at their core remain recognizable to their original selves. So things like lumping Dr. Stewart and Dr. Clash and Mr. EAD into the federation's task force is fine, but characters like the Skull or Baba becoming villains of the week are out, but characters like Octoman or Bio-Rex being recurring henchmen I think are fine. For Octoman its because he's still trying to support Takora through any means possible; Bio-Rex is a big stupid dinosaur who only likes to eat and drink so its not very difficult to see him being hired to do goon work. For Dr. Stewart and Dr. Clash its a simple manner of the Federation cast herd needing professionals for their specified roles (ie medicine and mechanics) for the heroes to rely on when someone gets hurt or needs their machine repaired.
Anyway the character changes that stuck out to me for the worse are:
-The Arrows. This is basically one everyone agrees on, the Arrows being made into total jokes as opposed to legitimate (if somewhat silly) superheroes. Mrs. Arrow especially suffers as she's supposed to be the "pants" of the relationship and her being made ineffectual totally misses the point of the characters. Also, have them be Zoda's rivals in the future time. I'm ok with Ryu having a past with Zoda, but this could have been something they could have bonded over, and even had the Arrows upgrade from side characters to main characters.
-Jack Levin. He's supposed to be a pop star, a rock and rolling racer, him being part of the Federation just really misses the point of his character. There's others who could fit the role he had just fine (ie being a rival to Ryu). I suppose they didn't want too much overlap with Kate Alen, but Kate is a fairly minor character to begin with, and the anime never even uses Jack's status as a performer to begin with, so I'm not sure what was up here beyond Jack being a Hot Young Anime Boy. Personally, I think Leon would have been a good fit here, especially since his own deal is he's a young teenage upstart with no experience and no know-how trying to do what he can to support his civil war embroiled homeworld. Plus we need more aliens on the hero side of things.
-Zoda. Zoda being an underling of Black Shadow I am actually ok with, the anime was consolidating its heroes and villains underneath easily recognizable factions, so having several different badguys all running around with different agendas not conductive to the main plot could have been confusing. What I am not ok with, though, is how Zoda and Shadow's relationship was depicted. Zoda being this career villain bootlicking to Black Shadow to overthrow him isn't Zoda's vibe; Zoda's vibe is an unpredictable agent of chaos. If Miss Killer was to be Black Shadow's dedicated hitwoman, then Zoda should've been the wild card that acts on his own accord and Black Shadow uses that to his advantage.
-Don Genie and Deathborn. There was no reason these guys had to be consolidated into Black Shadow given the roles they perpetuate. I would've used Don Genie as sort of the "season 1" antagonist as the Federation tries to bust down his crime ring and have the various henchman characters be answering to him or his proxy agents, then build up from that to Black Shadow, Zoda and Miss Killer. For Deathborn, I might have just kept him out entirely. Not because I dislike the character, but because Black Shadow in the context of GP Legend is already the "man behind the man". Deathborn maybe could have been an alias of his still, but I find it overall distracting.
-Miscellaneous characters becoming one-off henchmen. The big ones here are Skull, Gomar and Shioh, and Baba. The Skull just loves to race, and he loves to race so much he came back from the dead to do it. He could still be a one-off antagonist, but they should have made it more about Ryu's own racing compulsions. Like have a faustian race over his soul kind of deal. Tie into the death and reaper elements without him being evil, make it a character focus episode where Ryu has to really think about what's important to him. Gomar and Shioh should never be antagonists, period, they're funny little guys who everyone loves, their focus episode should be about their bond. Baba, too, should not be a villain, but can be an antagonist through the fact he's a haughty, hyperactive tryhard who has been ego-inflated by a talent scouting agency. He should be someone that Ryu struggles to beat, but once he does it brings down his massive pride, not a henchman.
-John Tanaka. This is a minor one, but it bugs me hard, but why does he pine for Kate Alen so much? He's supposed to be infatuated with Jody. I don't mind that they rewrote him from chief mechanic to basically a pencil pushing middle management stooge, as his overbearing and ineffectual leadership fits his character well, but why they didn't try to build on his canonical love interest whom he has way more chances of interacting with confuses me. It would've made good drama too given anime Jody is much more of a hardboiled tough cop than her upstart ace rookie angle from the games.
1: Make Silver important
2: Make the picture at the end of Lap 20 important
3: Make Antonio Guster the brother of Lisa Brilliant
4: Make Jody Captain Falcon’s girlfriend
I don't have the highest opinion of the anime. I blame its overall lack of success (both in general ratings and the sales figures of the tie-in titles) as the main reason why the franchise hardly ever gets touched by Nintendo at this point. I also find the art style pretty hard to look at as it looks relatively cheap (that and the weird oddities like Rick's humongous forehead in some shots and Jody's extremely long neck in other shots).
That being said, I am glad that F-Zero Climax does exist. The art in that game is SOO much better than GP Legend's art, and that game fixed a lot of issues that I had with GP Legend's game.
If the anime and the tie-in games were successful internationally, then I think we would've had way more F-Zero titles. However, they weren't, so we had to wait for 19 years to get 99. Here's to hoping that we won't have to wait another 19 years for a new game!
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@@custom-r The beeping in the background every few seconds in the last few videos you put out.
@@kirbysbestfan That's something I can't do anything about right now. Someone said it was my smoke detector, but mine's already been replaced.
I just hate the F Zero anime with a passion.
I really don't like the fact that the anime canon ressembles the F-Zero games, but with numerous small differencies. At first these differences look not important, but when you make the sum you discover that the setting is almost completely different.
Octoman and Baba being bad guys, Lightning as its own distinct planet, the fact that numerous piltos work for the Mobile Task Force ...
I even do not like the visual style very much. It's closer to Dragon Ball than Judge Dredd or other american comics that inspired F-Zero in the first place.
I wouldn't compare it to Dragon Ball. The artstyle is really closer to Cowboy Bebop if anything, but with CGI vehicles similar to Initial D or Wangan Midnight. If it was in Akira Toriyama's style, the character designs would be simpler and the vehicles would be absurdly complex and hand-drawn.
@@VestedUTuberlol about the vehicles part. If there’s one thing that man absolutely loved, it was designing vehicles.