We already have an update to this mystery! There have been a few comments that recall seeing an upload from 2009, with one claim specifying that it was titled "Pikmin - Cheer Up". Unsure of how true this was, I did a little digging and found evidence of its existence from a Facebook post in 2010- imgur.com/Im1Ocsu However, while the video and channel are completely gone we can see from the preview window that this was NOT the original upload or source. I believe what we're looking for is from 2008 or earlier, which still puts it closer in relevance to the Chinese short as I speculated in the video. The search continues!
Holy crap! I legit remember that title! Back in about 2014 or 2015 I was REALLY into pikmin, and I would go all over the internet looking for pikmin animations, content, etc. And I remember seeing this specific video, as well as the chinese animatic you mentioned. Not sure if this connection helps but hey! It's somthin'!
there's a fan fiction out there called Pikmin-Cheer Up, which describes the events seen in the video. because watt-pad is stupid i cant find out when the fan fiction was made unless i make an account which i dont feel like doing.
@@jaded151 // i just checked it out, and though i couldn't find the exact creation date of the fic, the earliest comment was from 2011, and wattpad was founded in 2006, so..
@@sprucebadger8229 yeah but the point was that they weren't seen in pikmin 1, thus it couldn't have been promo material for 1 if they only appeared until 2
This is a fan animation. That comment saying it was deleted/privated is correct it used to be in my liked videos on my old youtube but when I went to check it its since been deleted. It came out sometime around 2008-2010 judging from the other videos in my likes and atleast that's when I remember seeing it. It used to come up if you searched for general nintendo things it's probably why you vaguely remember it. It's been re uploaded many times now so it's hard to tell who originally made it unless they come forward but I am 100% sure this is a fan animation from old youtube. A good bet would be to look around the old new grounds community like people here have said as there was alot of nintendo love there around 2008 from brawl hype which sounds right for the time frame of when I remember seeing this originally. My guess is it is somehow related to smash brothers hype also pikmin 2 wasn't terribly old back then it was the most recent game at the time and people tended to like the yellow pikmin and olimar more than the other pikmin and Louie explaining the yellow pikmin being used for the thumbnail on reuploads. I think the original video used the image of olimar sitting with the pikmin as the thumbnail. I also remember people pestering the creator in the comments to make more that may be why they disappeared similar to the people who did the fan ed edd and eddy show bro show. Finding who made this will be very difficult unless they come forward with proof cause this video is so old it's back when gamer from Mars was a little kid and youtube still used the five stars system lmao
I recall that upload too! I had it on my animated shorts playlist until it was deleted a couple of years ago. Then I added the japanese upload to said list. I think it was uploaded in 2009. Good lord, I adore that short, and almost cried when I first saw it back in the day.
It's good to know someone else remembers. Yea I loved the pikmin also was one of my favorite games just cause of their design. Theres some shorts nintendo had on the wii u (they just recently put them on UA-cam) that would make an awesome show. You should watch them if you haven't seen em.
What I'm guessing is that a Japanese fan, or some other fan around that part of Asia, made the fan animation. Then it may have gotten reposted a lot with people speculating on it. I think think maybe the original creator saw that it was being reposted a lot and took it down. It sounds counter productive but a lot of artists in Japan and similar areas take down their art when it's reposted a lot rather than leaving it up. I'm not sure why, I just know it's something they do, but I'd guess it's what's making tracking it down so hard.
Phineas Facing Forward yeah same I always save my favourite art from Japanese artists cause you never know when it will disappear… it’s also nice to have the art for whenever you want to see them (so you don’t have to search long for it). Just in case for backup I also save the name of the artist.
The so-called "anime-style" is more likely to be used outside Japan than inside by fan and indie animators. A lot of amateur animators in Japan actually tend to distance themselves from the comercial "anime" tropes. That's actually the major giveaway that this wasn't done in Japan, not even in Asia (though Korea could still be its place of origin).
@Phineas Facing Forward Yeah, I do the same, while making sure I keep the source/name in the files so I don't forget who made it, even if it's just for my personal use, for cases such as this. I'm not sure why they're quick delete, I've seen it not just in Japan, but a little in Vietnamese and Korean artists too, but yeah, even when it isn't stolen, stuff disappears as soon as it's posted sometimes.
@@OM19_MO79 Well that's why it's a guess. And I've seen Korean and Vietnamese artists get quick to delete when their art is reposted to, as opposed to the rest of the world, though maybe not as much as Japan. And while I don't know how that true that is because I don't know much about specifically the animation scene in Japan, I do know there are still are plenty of fan animations out of Japan that do use the style. And take this with a shaker of salt because the evidence is 1. Anecdotal 2. it could have been a reupload, but I do believe the place I even saw this video back in the day was NicoNico, before the one mentioned in the video, because a lot of neat fan animations were only posted there at the time. I know anyone could have uploaded it there, but not a lot of people who weren't Japanese were around the time I remember. So I agree we can't be sure and it may even point more to it not being Japanese, we also can't rule it out, and I wanted to offer some reasoning as to the original possibly disappearing if it was Japan made.
I remember viewing this animation in 2007, but I recall the title included the word "fanmade". I was searching for Nintendo anime online and found kodomo no jikan smash Bros and smash eater. I looked at this one as well, but I didn't know what Pikmin was or why the characters weren't cute.
You brought up that that style was popular in the late 00's. Did you try Newgrounds to see if it could have possibly come from there? This sort of stuff gets uploaded all the time on there and people have a habit of reuploading flash content from Newgrounds onto UA-cam and other sites. Especially back in the day.
Yeah. I was thinking there or on a Deviant Art-like site. The quality is very clearly fanmade though it resembles early 2000s anime likely because it uses flash for a somewhat clean and flat look. That Pikmin walkcycle is clearly not something that would be in official animation though
I looked through the site briefly but didn't find too much, though I agree it's very likely it could have been uploaded there at one point. Maybe someone who used to frequent the site remembers seeing it there?
@@LSuperSonicQ I was super active from about 2010-2017ish so thats why I suggested it. It feels like something I could have seen on there before. I might dig through when I have a day off if I remember. Or go on the forum there and ask. If it's on there that's probably the quickest way to find out outside of asking Tom Fulp if he can find it since he's super active on there still.
@@LSuperSonicQ was looking through uploads on there and I suddenly remembered something. Back when Nintendo were going absolutely ballistic copyright striking damn near anything Nintendo related on UA-cam, Nintendo were going to go after Newgrounds because so much stuff uploaded on there included characters owned by them. As such, hundreds if not thousands of games/movies/art/etc. were wiped from the site. So if it WAS on there it is for sure gone.
I remember seeing this animation back in 2012 when I was majorly into Pikmin.... I feel like the upload I saw was either the one you showed from 2010, or possibly one from 2009. Sadly, I have really bad memory so I can’t remember more than that, though I was always sure it was a fan animation- to be honest, I’m surprised people thought it was a pilot considering that fan animations for stuff like this were often of similar quality (aka minimal animation because... animation is hard as heck to do, and it takes ages to do dramatic motion shots). Thanks for covering this topic though, it was super nostalgic to see! If you have any questions for whatever reason, let me know and I can try my best to answer them as a Pikmin fan who scavenged the web for any bit of Pikmin content back then, haha!
Actually, to add onto this, it’s possible that this particular animation was released by the artist around the same time the wii ports of the pikmin games were released, considering how artists often try to release content that’s sort of relevant to the time. However, do note that this is complete speculation on my part.
Hello there! I'm a Japanese language student, and I hope I can provide a bit more context to the description of the 2010 video, specifically the second sentence (first sentence is a little confusing for me, but I could give it a try if requested). My rough translation of it would be, "This animation appears to have an overseas direction/method to it." It's definitely more of a questioning statement than Google Translate implies. I hope this helps!
Thanks for posting this! This mystery has been on the back of my head since I’m a lot more invested in lost merchandise. Glad to see the Pikmin short getting some spotlight!
I really like the videos you make where you dive into a mystery of either finding content or just determining if something exists. One of my favorites is the animal crossing DS video.
Speaking of fake Nintendo anime, I remember a long time ago during I would say around when the Pokemon Gen II remakes were being speculated. I saw this UA-cam video of a sort of "promo" for a Gold/Silver anime which was obviously fake. It had May in her Emerald outfit, Harley(May's rival from the actual anime), and this girl in a red top hat who was in an episode of the Hoenn anime that featured Chatot. Also the Johto starters were there as well. It had some song completely unrelated to Pokemon which I can't find for the life of me. I'm wondering if anyone might have an idea of what video I'm talking about because I can't find that video again.
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Brittanypik PIKMIN HYPE I know (everyone does) but I’m curious on it’s origins as no one knows who the original creator is and where it came from. Some people in the Pikmin community are searching for it too (such as myself before). The only thing close to it I found was no leads but reuploads on Nicovideo (that were uploaded a year later) and a screamer featuring the cat Olimar character.
Putting the video link of the 2010 upload in the wayback machine there's one from 2016 that just has the description being "ひろいものです" then in 2017 where it added the "海外の方が制作されたようです". Maybe before the video got hit with COPPA there was some information posted in the comment section of it's origin.
This is just going off memory, but I distinctly remember the version I watched years ago was from an English speaking UA-camr who said in the description that this was their fan animation they made for a class or something.
I wonder if the comments on the Japanese version were disabled from it just being a Japanese upload (I've noticed a lot of Japanese companies disable the comments on videos aimed at a Japanese audience, I don't know if regular citizens also commonly do this or not) or if it's because of COPPA marking it as for kids. That's really irritating. I understand stuff like toddler and kindergarten videos having no comments but it's just irritating when it comes to stuff all ages care about. Then of course there's times when UA-cam's bot misidentifies PG-13 or even R rated animations as kids stuff, I've seen several unofficial Robot Chicken and anime re-uploads that aren't kid friendly get tagged as for kids so now kids will have inappropriate things being recommended to them and the proper audience can't even comment on them now.
I went ahead and checked, the video was flagged by COPPA. In other words, 10 years worth of comments and potential leads were lost because of a bullshit auto-flag system Thanks UA-cam
As an animator, I can say that this definitely looks like a fan animation to me. It does not quite have the same quality that would be produced by a studio. It lacks a few animation principals that a studio would have definitely wanted added. Another alternative is that it is a pitch animation that was shown to studios. That is just my opinion however, and I could always be wrong. Either way, I hope the origins of this video can be discovered!
Man this is nostalgic. I remember seeing the animal crossing anime movie and loving it and so did I love the bomberman anime. Also kirby right back at ya!
I'm honestly not sure how anyone can think this is anything other than a fan animation, because it doesn't look like something of official quality at all lol
I found the Chinese post. It seems that guy continues to make flash animations. I can read and write a little bit of 中文 (thanks college lol). I could just ask him???
You might want to look into using DeepL for japanese translations, seems to give better translations than google etc. I know some people don't respond well to machine-translations, maybe that can help in future.
I remember first seeing this from an upload from sometime in 2009, it was titled "Pikmin: Cheer Up", the channel's name was "patiencelittleshadow", maybe the original upload?
Thanks for the lead! I was actually able to find a repost of the video from an old facebook account! While the channel and video itself are completely gone, the little preview of the video Facebook generates (imgur.com/Im1Ocsu) proves that this upload was not the original one, so the mystery continues!
You know, this could have been from a video with other animations. I’ve seen lost media in an animator's project real. It could also be something done for a contest like the other pikmin animation. Maybe there's a compilation video that has this. Sorry that wasn’t much, it’s just something to think about.
hooooh i love mysteries but i can imagine it's so painful looking so hard for something and nothing comes out of it.... i had it similar trying to find stuff i thought was easy to find, maybe i just suck at searching. i am super grateful learning about this stuff from your videos tho! thank you so much!!!
Man I remember seeing that animation a long time ago. I kinda forgot it even existed, I probably watched it on one of those early uploads or something, don't remember too well
The reason there are no comments is most likely because UA-cam automatically flagged the video for kids. You might be able to ask the channel owner to switch the video back to "not for kids" and then the comments would reappear.
Shoot; I actually remember watching this old clip as a kid. While I don't know the official source, I do know that it is indeed just a fan creation and nothing really official.
Here's my take for Lost Media which no one ever heard of it (and probably could be a prank): When I was little, I used to browse Angry Birds Movie (Before 2016) on google and then found one strange picture which had some three dudes wearing suits of Red, Bomb and Chuck.All three birds we're sitting in front of the table and Chuck and Bomb were eating something. Also there was a subtitle written Red saying: "We are Angry Birds" (which I think that's what was written.) I didn't found any other videos, nor images. I think it was either some unofficial bootleg movie or either a prank made for fun.
I think the style of this animation is just different vs. nintendo's ads back then. The quality seems high from what I can tell and I don't feel it's fair to say it isn't. It also does not look like it was made in flash. It doesn't have that typical default flash brush setting like most new ground animations has. I don't doubt it's fan made, but the quality is what has a part of me curious if this is a genuine pilot for a show. Either way, I enjoyed this video and I hope we get new info.
I love when you asked that guy about who originally uploaded it and your showed he added “Ew, Gross” by Joyce Manor to his playlist cause I’ve been listening to that album on repeat lately lol. That’s a cool band.
I'm a staff member in a Pikmin community. Me and the rest of the staff were doing staff stuff when I got the notif for this. Wow. Edit: As a once avid fan fueled by my own autism (Pikmin was a special interest), I've seen these both. They have a vibe that brings me back to when I dived into Pikmin hell. I miss it before the fandom ruined the series for me.
I feel the quality could be all the re-uploads. UA-cam makes the videos lower quality then they are when you upload the videos so if you keep uploading the same video over and over from downloads of the video it will become low quality so I think this is why it’s low quality
I saw this short a couple years ago around 2012-2013 ish somewhere on the internet and just forgot about it, I do know it wasn’t UA-cam and all this did was confuse me even more. Where on earth did I watch it?
I remember a video of this with comments enabled from like 2009 or something but its long been deleted it seems. This part is separate but I also remember a 3d pikmin animation by the name of Pikmin end of day or something like that, its also been deleted but I seen a different video with a clip of it in it. Could you try and find out why it was deleted?
@@reverseshin I was able to find it quite a while ago. For some reason this video seemed to be gone from youtube. I even punched in the exact name and t still didn't show up. I'm glad it's back, for it wrenches my heart so. ua-cam.com/video/iarokKfTQRo/v-deo.html
Hey, so I dont know if this is really worth talking about or big but recently I was playing mario sports mix and started looking for guides on how to unlock everything. I realized that alot of guides said you could unlock rosalina by having everything else unlocked and beating every minigame in a specific order. I havent tried unlocking it yet but that's because I dont want my time to be wasted.
Here's a doozy, you should do the kenya song by filthy frank. Been going down for as long as I can remember, and I tried myself to look for the mysterious song with no avail. You seem pretty good and you should give it a try.
Hey I was wondering if you could do a video on the unfinished/missing episodes of Ed Edd n Eddy? One was called "Special Ed" and the other two were called "Luck be an Ed Tonight" and I think "A Room with an Ed".
Hey, I have no source because it appears to be deleted, but I saw this around 2012 and can confirm the original uploader being a fan. It is a fan animation. However I cannot find any indication on who made it.
while im sure the point now is to find when and where this came from even if it is more than likely a fan animation, i will say that ive seen this type of slightly off model art style and choppy panning effect before. im more than sure this is a fan animation from China. i recall some things like these circulated youtube around 2009 maybe.
There is this one cartoon that Ant Blades did animation for called Bull and Red. I remember the show very, very vaguely as a kid. I found the end of the credits on a Nick Japan Shutdown that is real. The production studio behind it seems to be Prism Entertainment, and has no episodes or art of it online. It's truly a mystery of what this cartoon is. Can you make a video discussing the topic? Maybe email Ant Blades first.
This s something I didn't expect either, but I don't play video games so this is new to me. Though is it me or does the 3 Pikmin in that mysterious footage remind me of the Teletubbies?
We already have an update to this mystery! There have been a few comments that recall seeing an upload from 2009, with one claim specifying that it was titled "Pikmin - Cheer Up". Unsure of how true this was, I did a little digging and found evidence of its existence from a Facebook post in 2010- imgur.com/Im1Ocsu
However, while the video and channel are completely gone we can see from the preview window that this was NOT the original upload or source. I believe what we're looking for is from 2008 or earlier, which still puts it closer in relevance to the Chinese short as I speculated in the video. The search continues!
It was an honor to help! I've always assumed it was a fan animation but I hope we get to the bottom of this soon!
Holy crap! I legit remember that title! Back in about 2014 or 2015 I was REALLY into pikmin, and I would go all over the internet looking for pikmin animations, content, etc. And I remember seeing this specific video, as well as the chinese animatic you mentioned. Not sure if this connection helps but hey! It's somthin'!
there's a fan fiction out there called Pikmin-Cheer Up, which describes the events seen in the video. because watt-pad is stupid i cant find out when the fan fiction was made unless i make an account which i dont feel like doing.
LSuperSonicQ I just watched it
@@jaded151 // i just checked it out, and though i couldn't find the exact creation date of the fic, the earliest comment was from 2011, and wattpad was founded in 2006, so..
"ひろいものです" doesn't mean "It's a big one." It's "This is something I found," which means that they didn't make it.
Hiroimo no dezu? Am I reading that right?
I think that it was translated as though the japanese sentence said 広い物です
@@soko4710 さすがグーグルは間違いがいっぱい！
@@YellowYoshi398 ひらがななら、グーグルの翻訳は良くないです。
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Pikmin nerd here. Olimars family is seen in the first game but they dont have color they are made from stars
they are also seen in the 2nd game as starmails
@@sprucebadger8229 yeah but the point was that they weren't seen in pikmin 1, thus it couldn't have been promo material for 1 if they only appeared until 2
@@absent612 unless the promo material was used to be the stairmail profile in order to keep continuity
No it’s his sketch
@@absent612 Uh, they were in the first game. You can see art of them.
Screencaping images & then using reverse image search is something I never considered. Appreciate the protip.
Lol literally this is the first idea that came to my mind
Hey it's bad anime guy
This is a fan animation. That comment saying it was deleted/privated is correct it used to be in my liked videos on my old youtube but when I went to check it its since been deleted. It came out sometime around 2008-2010 judging from the other videos in my likes and atleast that's when I remember seeing it. It used to come up if you searched for general nintendo things it's probably why you vaguely remember it. It's been re uploaded many times now so it's hard to tell who originally made it unless they come forward but I am 100% sure this is a fan animation from old youtube. A good bet would be to look around the old new grounds community like people here have said as there was alot of nintendo love there around 2008 from brawl hype which sounds right for the time frame of when I remember seeing this originally. My guess is it is somehow related to smash brothers hype also pikmin 2 wasn't terribly old back then it was the most recent game at the time and people tended to like the yellow pikmin and olimar more than the other pikmin and Louie explaining the yellow pikmin being used for the thumbnail on reuploads. I think the original video used the image of olimar sitting with the pikmin as the thumbnail. I also remember people pestering the creator in the comments to make more that may be why they disappeared similar to the people who did the fan ed edd and eddy show bro show. Finding who made this will be very difficult unless they come forward with proof cause this video is so old it's back when gamer from Mars was a little kid and youtube still used the five stars system lmao
Wow that’s big!
Haha "back when gamer from Mars was a little kid" those were the days!
I recall that upload too!
I had it on my animated shorts playlist until it was deleted a couple of years ago. Then I added the japanese upload to said list.
I think it was uploaded in 2009. Good lord, I adore that short, and almost cried when I first saw it back in the day.
It's good to know someone else remembers. Yea I loved the pikmin also was one of my favorite games just cause of their design. Theres some shorts nintendo had on the wii u (they just recently put them on UA-cam) that would make an awesome show. You should watch them if you haven't seen em.
What I'm guessing is that a Japanese fan, or some other fan around that part of Asia, made the fan animation. Then it may have gotten reposted a lot with people speculating on it. I think think maybe the original creator saw that it was being reposted a lot and took it down. It sounds counter productive but a lot of artists in Japan and similar areas take down their art when it's reposted a lot rather than leaving it up. I'm not sure why, I just know it's something they do, but I'd guess it's what's making tracking it down so hard.
Yeah, it is hard to track down, I’m currently trying to find the origins
Phineas Facing Forward yeah same I always save my favourite art from Japanese artists cause you never know when it will disappear… it’s also nice to have the art for whenever you want to see them (so you don’t have to search long for it). Just in case for backup I also save the name of the artist.
The so-called "anime-style" is more likely to be used outside Japan than inside by fan and indie animators. A lot of amateur animators in Japan actually tend to distance themselves from the comercial "anime" tropes. That's actually the major giveaway that this wasn't done in Japan, not even in Asia (though Korea could still be its place of origin).
@Phineas Facing Forward Yeah, I do the same, while making sure I keep the source/name in the files so I don't forget who made it, even if it's just for my personal use, for cases such as this. I'm not sure why they're quick delete, I've seen it not just in Japan, but a little in Vietnamese and Korean artists too, but yeah, even when it isn't stolen, stuff disappears as soon as it's posted sometimes.
@@OM19_MO79 Well that's why it's a guess. And I've seen Korean and Vietnamese artists get quick to delete when their art is reposted to, as opposed to the rest of the world, though maybe not as much as Japan. And while I don't know how that true that is because I don't know much about specifically the animation scene in Japan, I do know there are still are plenty of fan animations out of Japan that do use the style.
And take this with a shaker of salt because the evidence is 1. Anecdotal 2. it could have been a reupload, but I do believe the place I even saw this video back in the day was NicoNico, before the one mentioned in the video, because a lot of neat fan animations were only posted there at the time. I know anyone could have uploaded it there, but not a lot of people who weren't Japanese were around the time I remember. So I agree we can't be sure and it may even point more to it not being Japanese, we also can't rule it out, and I wanted to offer some reasoning as to the original possibly disappearing if it was Japan made.
I remember viewing this animation in 2007, but I recall the title included the word "fanmade".
I was searching for Nintendo anime online and found kodomo no jikan smash Bros and smash eater.
I looked at this one as well, but I didn't know what Pikmin was or why the characters weren't cute.
Welp, I was today years old when I read this comment and learned the Kodomo no Jikan ED has a Smash bros version.
Thank you for this information lol.
It's marked as "for children" so it probably had comments enabled before that would have said where it was from.
Hate youtubes autoscrubbing of history. Hopefully in the future most people will frown upon these kinda things
That shit pisses me off
You brought up that that style was popular in the late 00's. Did you try Newgrounds to see if it could have possibly come from there? This sort of stuff gets uploaded all the time on there and people have a habit of reuploading flash content from Newgrounds onto UA-cam and other sites. Especially back in the day.
Yeah. I was thinking there or on a Deviant Art-like site. The quality is very clearly fanmade though it resembles early 2000s anime likely because it uses flash for a somewhat clean and flat look. That Pikmin walkcycle is clearly not something that would be in official animation though
I looked through the site briefly but didn't find too much, though I agree it's very likely it could have been uploaded there at one point. Maybe someone who used to frequent the site remembers seeing it there?
@@LSuperSonicQ I was super active from about 2010-2017ish so thats why I suggested it. It feels like something I could have seen on there before. I might dig through when I have a day off if I remember. Or go on the forum there and ask. If it's on there that's probably the quickest way to find out outside of asking Tom Fulp if he can find it since he's super active on there still.
@@LSuperSonicQ was looking through uploads on there and I suddenly remembered something. Back when Nintendo were going absolutely ballistic copyright striking damn near anything Nintendo related on UA-cam, Nintendo were going to go after Newgrounds because so much stuff uploaded on there included characters owned by them. As such, hundreds if not thousands of games/movies/art/etc. were wiped from the site. So if it WAS on there it is for sure gone.
I remember seeing this animation back in 2012 when I was majorly into Pikmin.... I feel like the upload I saw was either the one you showed from 2010, or possibly one from 2009. Sadly, I have really bad memory so I can’t remember more than that, though I was always sure it was a fan animation- to be honest, I’m surprised people thought it was a pilot considering that fan animations for stuff like this were often of similar quality (aka minimal animation because... animation is hard as heck to do, and it takes ages to do dramatic motion shots). Thanks for covering this topic though, it was super nostalgic to see! If you have any questions for whatever reason, let me know and I can try my best to answer them as a Pikmin fan who scavenged the web for any bit of Pikmin content back then, haha!
Actually, to add onto this, it’s possible that this particular animation was released by the artist around the same time the wii ports of the pikmin games were released, considering how artists often try to release content that’s sort of relevant to the time. However, do note that this is complete speculation on my part.
Hello there! I'm a Japanese language student, and I hope I can provide a bit more context to the description of the 2010 video, specifically the second sentence (first sentence is a little confusing for me, but I could give it a try if requested). My rough translation of it would be, "This animation appears to have an overseas direction/method to it." It's definitely more of a questioning statement than Google Translate implies. I hope this helps!
No. It says "It seems someone overseas produced it." "海外の方" doesn't mean "overseas direction/method" in this context, but "someone overseas."
@@foxontherails Whoops, my bad. Thank you for correcting me - my Japanese is still a little shaky!
Thanks for posting this! This mystery has been on the back of my head since I’m a lot more invested in lost merchandise. Glad to see the Pikmin short getting some spotlight!
Checking this out now! I’ve never heard of a pikmin anime but that sounds like it could be something cool
It's official. The era of lost media hunts is over, we are now in the era of lost and mystery media debunking. Thanks, "A day with Spongebob".
A day with Spongbob truly were interesting times in the lost media community. Kinda makes me nostalgic of how far we’ve come…
I really like the videos you make where you dive into a mystery of either finding content or just determining if something exists. One of my favorites is the animal crossing DS video.
I think Olimar's family is seen once, but only as a drawing in one of his journal entries when you finish a day.
Speaking of fake Nintendo anime, I remember a long time ago during I would say around when the Pokemon Gen II remakes were being speculated. I saw this UA-cam video of a sort of "promo" for a Gold/Silver anime which was obviously fake. It had May in her Emerald outfit, Harley(May's rival from the actual anime), and this girl in a red top hat who was in an episode of the Hoenn anime that featured Chatot. Also the Johto starters were there as well. It had some song completely unrelated to Pokemon which I can't find for the life of me. I'm wondering if anyone might have an idea of what video I'm talking about because I can't find that video again.
It sounds vaguely familiar, but unfortunately I'd be no help in tracking it down.
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Then we can play Splatoon 2, Smash, Pokémon Ect together
If i can't use jaxcheese's music for projects or videos, then how are *you* able to use it?
I remember watching this so many years ago!! Glad too see you covering it!!… maybe you can do 8min next?
No because that one is fan made, we already know the origin
Brittanypik PIKMIN HYPE I know (everyone does) but I’m curious on it’s origins as no one knows who the original creator is and where it came from. Some people in the Pikmin community are searching for it too (such as myself before). The only thing close to it I found was no leads but reuploads on Nicovideo (that were uploaded a year later) and a screamer featuring the cat Olimar character.
Cant wait until Vailskibum steals this topic for a video
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Ooh I can imagine it right now…
Dude he also steals from pan pizza what a douche
vail is the definition of copy paste
God I hate that guy. He gets so wound up over children's TV shows and his voice is like nails against a chalkboard.
Putting the video link of the 2010 upload in the wayback machine there's one from 2016 that just has the description being "ひろいものです" then in 2017 where it added the "海外の方が制作されたようです". Maybe before the video got hit with COPPA there was some information posted in the comment section of it's origin.
If that's fan made then woah, animation looks pretty damn good.
Great stuff as ever, love the way you set out the research so clearly and thoroughly.
I never watched this short but I feel nostalgic towards it. I love the artstyle, very peaceful.
The music for the black and white PIKMIN animation was beautiful, and made the video more sad but also more hopeful.
This is just going off memory, but I distinctly remember the version I watched years ago was from an English speaking UA-camr who said in the description that this was their fan animation they made for a class or something.
I know a UA-camr who talked about it too! Can’t remember his name but I’ll search
@@not7170 If you watched the video and remember what the title was go search your video watch history
This is a vary beautiful animation, I wish we knew who made it, or I wish the person who made it would come forward and upload a HD version..
Honestly, I’ve wanted to try and make a remaster of this since I first saw it. I just don’t know how to do that 🥲 maybe one day…
I wonder if the comments on the Japanese version were disabled from it just being a Japanese upload (I've noticed a lot of Japanese companies disable the comments on videos aimed at a Japanese audience, I don't know if regular citizens also commonly do this or not) or if it's because of COPPA marking it as for kids. That's really irritating. I understand stuff like toddler and kindergarten videos having no comments but it's just irritating when it comes to stuff all ages care about. Then of course there's times when UA-cam's bot misidentifies PG-13 or even R rated animations as kids stuff, I've seen several unofficial Robot Chicken and anime re-uploads that aren't kid friendly get tagged as for kids so now kids will have inappropriate things being recommended to them and the proper audience can't even comment on them now.
I went ahead and checked, the video was flagged by COPPA. In other words, 10 years worth of comments and potential leads were lost because of a bullshit auto-flag system
Thanks UA-cam
As an animator, I can say that this definitely looks like a fan animation to me. It does not quite have the same quality that would be produced by a studio. It lacks a few animation principals that a studio would have definitely wanted added. Another alternative is that it is a pitch animation that was shown to studios. That is just my opinion however, and I could always be wrong. Either way, I hope the origins of this video can be discovered!
Man this is nostalgic.
I remember seeing the animal crossing anime movie and loving it and so did I love the bomberman anime.
Also kirby right back at ya!
Yes I found out about by watching a Conner the waffle video ua-cam.com/video/U3jKcUm84OE/v-deo.html
There was a Bomberman Anime?!?!?! 0-0
@@Mr.Bouncer Yep. Suprisingly 4kids didn't dub it like most popular animes at the time. There's a subtitled version on youtube.
@@Mr.Bouncer there are 3 bomberman animes, Bomberman B-daman Bakugaiden, Bomberman B-daman Bakugaiden V (Victory) and Bomberman Jetters
This may become my new favorite video on your channel. Love the lost media
Thank you! I think it came out really nice as well
I'm honestly not sure how anyone can think this is anything other than a fan animation, because it doesn't look like something of official quality at all lol
This reminds me of those old fan-made anime openings of the Pokemon Adventures manga. I've always wondered what their original source was.
Hopefully one day we'll find out.
I found the Chinese post. It seems that guy continues to make flash animations. I can read and write a little bit of 中文 (thanks college lol). I could just ask him???
Seems like a reasonable course of action.
Did you ask him??
Can you show us the source?
6:27 WOW. I remember seeing that video, a very longtime ago !
You might want to look into using DeepL for japanese translations, seems to give better translations than google etc. I know some people don't respond well to machine-translations, maybe that can help in future.
Google Translate is by far the worst when it comes to translation, honestly.
the art style looks dead-on for 00s niconico douga fan animations
Can we talk about how the comment at 5:42 said the video uploader should've credited the animator after just saying the original upload was taken down
I remember first seeing this from an upload from sometime in 2009, it was titled "Pikmin: Cheer Up", the channel's name was "patiencelittleshadow", maybe the original upload?
Thanks for the lead! I was actually able to find a repost of the video from an old facebook account! While the channel and video itself are completely gone, the little preview of the video Facebook generates (imgur.com/Im1Ocsu) proves that this upload was not the original one, so the mystery continues!
Now THIS is the stuff I love to see from you
Overseas *people are produced*
You know, this could have been from a video with other animations. I’ve seen lost media in an animator's project real. It could also be something done for a contest like the other pikmin animation. Maybe there's a compilation video that has this. Sorry that wasn’t much, it’s just something to think about.
I remember seeing a MOTHER 3 animation in a similar art style.
That’s starfox zero opening was so amazing I want a starfox anima so bad
It was pretty cool yeah, I just wish it was its own thing and not really connected to the game.
"I knew what must be done..."
...so you booked a flight to Japan?
I understood that reference.
Olimar's family is seen in pikmin 1, but only on certain logs at the end of the day.
hooooh i love mysteries but i can imagine it's so painful looking so hard for something and nothing comes out of it.... i had it similar trying to find stuff i thought was easy to find, maybe i just suck at searching.
i am super grateful learning about this stuff from your videos tho! thank you so much!!!
Remembered this and looked up your video only to find myself in it lol, keep up the good work!
8:27 actual they do appear in pikmin 1 in one of olimars Notes, granted they're not colored
Man I remember seeing that animation a long time ago. I kinda forgot it even existed, I probably watched it on one of those early uploads or something, don't remember too well
The reason there are no comments is most likely because UA-cam automatically flagged the video for kids. You might be able to ask the channel owner to switch the video back to "not for kids" and then the comments would reappear.
I could have sworn that I saw this on Newgrounds.
Same here.
Have you ever done a video on the Animal Crossing anime? I suppose that isn't lost media.
I haven't but that's a good idea! Animal Crossing is my fav and I remember watching the movie in like 480p way back in the day haha
2 videos in a span of a week ? Good god this is incredible
Hey LsupersonicQ
When will u make your next video?
Shoot; I actually remember watching this old clip as a kid. While I don't know the official source, I do know that it is indeed just a fan creation and nothing really official.
*YEAH !!! a pikmin related video* !
Here's my take for Lost Media which no one ever heard of it (and probably could be a prank):
When I was little, I used to browse Angry Birds Movie (Before 2016) on google and then found one strange picture which had some three dudes wearing suits of Red, Bomb and Chuck.All three birds we're sitting in front of the table and Chuck and Bomb were eating something. Also there was a subtitle written Red saying: "We are Angry Birds" (which I think that's what was written.) I didn't found any other videos, nor images. I think it was either some unofficial bootleg movie or either a prank made for fun.
How do i like recommend a lost media topic?
Comment email or twitter dm
@@oreo4093 thanks
Kekcroc
Do you think if you go to the way back machine you might find something? It might work
I am 100% sure this is fan-made because this is Nintendo
we're talkin about anything that copies them will be token
down in the blink of an eye
olimars family did show up between days in pikmin 1.
I think the style of this animation is just different vs. nintendo's ads back then. The quality seems high from what I can tell and I don't feel it's fair to say it isn't. It also does not look like it was made in flash. It doesn't have that typical default flash brush setting like most new ground animations has. I don't doubt it's fan made, but the quality is what has a part of me curious if this is a genuine pilot for a show. Either way, I enjoyed this video and I hope we get new info.
Exactly. The quality here is really high and I'd be surprised if it's really done with Flash, at least as far as typical Flash stuff was done.
For that video with comments disabled, maybe try using the wayback machine on it to see if comments were archived?
Comments are probably off because it's a cartoon, so youtube flagged it as "for kids".
I love how her name is Brittany
I love when you asked that guy about who originally uploaded it and your showed he added “Ew, Gross” by Joyce Manor to his playlist cause I’ve been listening to that album on repeat lately lol. That’s a cool band.
Those were some of the first videos I ever watched on UA-cam.
0:17 I didn't know they made Camp Lazlo into an anime...
Can you make a video about the lost Wario and Mario animatronics?
I'm a staff member in a Pikmin community. Me and the rest of the staff were doing staff stuff when I got the notif for this. Wow.
Edit: As a once avid fan fueled by my own autism (Pikmin was a special interest), I've seen these both. They have a vibe that brings me back to when I dived into Pikmin hell. I miss it before the fandom ruined the series for me.
The fandom ruined Pikmin for you? How? All I've experienced from the Pikmin fandom are content-starved shitposts.
I feel the quality could be all the re-uploads. UA-cam makes the videos lower quality then they are when you upload the videos so if you keep uploading the same video over and over from downloads of the video it will become low quality so I think this is why it’s low quality
Olimars family was shown in pikmin 1in 1 of the logs
I saw this short a couple years ago around 2012-2013 ish somewhere on the internet and just forgot about it, I do know it wasn’t UA-cam and all this did was confuse me even more. Where on earth did I watch it?
I remember a video of this with comments enabled from like 2009 or something but its long been deleted it seems. This part is separate but I also remember a 3d pikmin animation by the name of Pikmin end of day or something like that, its also been deleted but I seen a different video with a clip of it in it. Could you try and find out why it was deleted?
Here's the clip of it: ua-cam.com/video/cNjQVinPIP4/v-deo.html
@@armaansingh7452 it’s deleted, but where do you remember seeing this 3rd animation?
@@reverseshin I was able to find it quite a while ago. For some reason this video seemed to be gone from youtube. I even punched in the exact name and t still didn't show up. I'm glad it's back, for it wrenches my heart so.
ua-cam.com/video/iarokKfTQRo/v-deo.html
Is it normal that I found this animation in my recommended?
Hey, so I dont know if this is really worth talking about or big but recently I was playing mario sports mix and started looking for guides on how to unlock everything. I realized that alot of guides said you could unlock rosalina by having everything else unlocked and beating every minigame in a specific order. I havent tried unlocking it yet but that's because I dont want my time to be wasted.
A Pikmin anime? As Adorabat would say, "Yes please!"
God this short was buried soooooo deep in my mind
I've seen Smash Eater op's for Soul Eater's first two OP's. Gave me flashbacks to middle school.
Here's a doozy, you should do the kenya song by filthy frank. Been going down for as long as I can remember, and I tried myself to look for the mysterious song with no avail. You seem pretty good and you should give it a try.
I remember watching A Fox in Space a long time ago and just having it blow my mind.
Hey I was wondering if you could do a video on the unfinished/missing episodes of Ed Edd n Eddy? One was called "Special Ed" and the other two were called "Luck be an Ed Tonight" and I think "A Room with an Ed".
Hey, I have no source because it appears to be deleted, but I saw this around 2012 and can confirm the original uploader being a fan. It is a fan animation. However I cannot find any indication on who made it.
If Pikmin had an anime I’d watch the heck out of it, same thing as a Metroid anime
The Pikmin shorts directed by Miyamoto are great. Wish Nintendo wasn't so shy at trying other media
Where can I watch that 2006 pikmin animation seen here?
With reverse search I found a niconico page from 2008 that supposed to have atleast an image, but I can't find it on the page...
The real question is why where there pikmin during the night?
Can you make a video about the “yummer” situation??
I think I have a great idea for a new video LSSQ
It’s Kirby lost media
It’s called kid Kirby. A cancelled Super Nintendo game
I remember watching this around 2012 I always wondered where this originated from.
Don't forget about the Kirby anime
while im sure the point now is to find when and where this came from even if it is more than likely a fan animation, i will say that ive seen this type of slightly off model art style and choppy panning effect before. im more than sure this is a fan animation from China. i recall some things like these circulated youtube around 2009 maybe.
There is this one cartoon that Ant Blades did animation for called Bull and Red. I remember the show very, very vaguely as a kid. I found the end of the credits on a Nick Japan Shutdown that is real. The production studio behind it seems to be Prism Entertainment, and has no episodes or art of it online. It's truly a mystery of what this cartoon is. Can you make a video discussing the topic? Maybe email Ant Blades first.
This s something I didn't expect either, but I don't play video games so this is new to me. Though is it me or does the 3 Pikmin in that mysterious footage remind me of the Teletubbies?
Pikmin Deserves an anime!!!!
Honestly should be a movie. It reminds me of the movies studio ghibli (gibli? jibli? I forgot) makes.
Great vid! Keep it up bro!
Thanks! There's definitely more where this came from
Hey. Do the Super Why lost pilot.