This is what I try to tell everyone. If you watch Pikmin 1's best ending, you can see that Olimar didn't abuse the Pikmin, but rather he helped them learn how to survive on their own.
Olimar literally revived an extinct species, or at least almost extinct. If you played Pikmin 1 you will know that there were no Pikmin at first, until Olimar inadvertently activated one of the onions, awakening it and generating a ray of hope for the species. Thanks to Olimar the Pikmin returned from extinction and not only that, as seen in the good ending, his help taught them to defend themselves. So Olimar is a hero
I used to prefer to restart a game rather than lose pikmin. Not terribly useful, but that's just how I rolled. And god were some fights ridiculously difficult to win without losing pikmin. Hell, that's one of the reasons I ended up with my forces being 40-60% purple all the time no matter what.
I remembered this recently and had to find it again. I've always interpreted the ending as the last Pikmin, knowing itself to be doomed, making a wish on that star for some kind of help, not for itself but the future of its species--and lo and behold, there comes Olimar's ship. Sort of like when everybody wishes on a shooting star at the end of Paper Mario, and that star IS Mario's little ship thing. Maybe it's literalizing the metaphor, but for me at least it's a powerful idea. And because of this strange, dark little animation, it's a core part of the identity of the Pikmin series for me.
Folks really don't give Olimar enough credit for just how much he has helped the Pikmin. Even with the casualties along the way, you'll end the game with *WAY* more Pikmin than you started. And ever since the first game, the Pikmin race isn't totally extinct every time you see them. It shows the Pikmin benefit from him every bit as much as he does them. He brought them from the brink of extinction and taught them how to hold on for dear life. This mutualism even continues in Pikmin 3. Sure they're being used to farm fruit but the 3 captains are cultivating their race nonetheless and they outright save the Winged Pikmin from total extinction. Shame there aren't more videos that elaborate on this element.
I know, It is *shameful* that most of pikmin fans sees olimar as "evil-like slave-maker" rather than "the hero that saved little alien species from extinctation".
@@demonpikmin2343 It is especially sad when knowing that Olimar and the Pikmin saving each other is the intention... It is proven already with the lyrics of the official Strawberry Flower songs.
A masterpiece. When I first saw this as a 7 year old I wondered if there would ever be another pikmin short. The way the art conveys the story is outstanding. I would love to see another.
love this unoficial prequel to pikmin 1. its a sad representation of the pikmin before olimar. it explains that pikmin 1 was not a story of slavory but of saving a entire species from extinction.
The official Pikmin short films are cute and all, but this right here was is and always will be the OG. This is what playing Pikmin for the first time at 6 years old FEELS like.
I remember seeing this video back when I first started getting into the Pikmin series, and being someone who's played Pikmin 1 to 3, this makes me really sad. You get attached to them, only to have them inevitably fall in battle or in some other way most of the time. But hey, they're fighting and living on for a reason, so their deaths aren't in vain at least. :c
Through Google Translate, the description translates as such: "College work, 4th Academy Awards Animation School of Beijing Film Academy Award for best student work." Pretty awesome!
I’ve been playing pikmin 2 and every time I see a pikmin get crushed, drown, burn, get electrocuted, poisoned, fall into the abyss, explode, or swallowed by a beast it really makes me feel guilty. Seeing those poor pikmin lose their lives just for captain Olimar. Although it does also warm my heart knowing they actually cared about Olimar. And they worked for him and Louie.
Another interesting note is that it's outright said in Ai No Uta that the Pikmin follow Olimar and the others purely for selfless reasons, they wish to be helpful and never even expect love or respect in return, all because they LLLOVE ya! Makes sense, with them having been saved from near extinction.
This is so good I lovely how creepy and eerie this is, the black and white art and it’s sort of old timey feel just adds to this and how you showed to creatures from the pikmins perspective shows how truly terrifying these must be to them and how when there are just the 2 left it’s really gives of a feeling of isolation and them being a alone with no were to run and monsters trying to eat them at everyturn and that choir singing really just adds to it so much great work
It's so realistic how this animation with manga-art style represents all the pain, distress, death and suffering the Pikmin have in all the Pikmin saga (Most specifically in Pikmin 1+2, Pikmin 3 and Pikmin 4) during gameplay but I don't know why Nintendo promote the Pikmin saga as "cute" games if they're supposed that these are war repressenting Nintendo videogames (And even more this animation was made in the same year as Pikmin 2's release in 2004)
Wow Something keeps bringing me back to this video around twice every year, sadly i do not remember when i first watched it, but maybe its the nostalgia, or the very very deep story behind this "Masterpiece". Well anyway to the point, Pikmin will always have a place in my heart along with this, this lonely animation to have sad emotions upon me and you that is if you read this and watched the animation, and i will be ending on this note. Always keep in mind this video-
Hello, creator. I want to say that I absolutely love this animation. Everything is perfect, but there is something i'd like to know. It is about the song that played in this animation. I would be very glad if you agree to share us the title of this song. Perhaps, any youtubers/visitors here can help me to find/tell me the title of the song. I want to hear the extended version of this song so very badly. Thank you for your attention.
zihe CG Oh my! You mean, you are unable to remember the title of the song?? Oh no, what should we do? Any youtubers who read this: please help us to find thr title of the song! (It's played in minute 02:25)
Awh, it's ok, red! Pikmin cannot even feel love!!! :) Wait, how is that happy? Well, I mean towards each other . They can love or hate different species from them.
Creation Realm No, Pikmin do feel love, as shown in the song Ai no Uta, which is about Pikmin loving Olimar and wishing that he would give them his love in return.
This is so sad...but why? Pikmin are the most amazing aliens ever, why must they be broughten down in such a sad video? KIll everything my lil' colored carrots
Pikmin are the most powerful race on the planet but they have to have a strong leader in order to prosper. That is why in the time of Olimar's absence there were not as many Pikmin at the beginning of the second game then there were at the end of the first. It makes you think that in a way all these Hocotate inhabitants coming to the planet and leading them in a way prevents the species from dying out completely. Now if Olimar did not show up then there probably would not be any Pikmin.
I don't know about the game, but this movie is really outstanding. The scene where the last one running and the sequence and detail after that, I can't see it without being deeply moved. Great Work! Yeah this one makes me cry...
It was sad but did anyone notice that at 1:26 the pikmin that squished is the same pikmin that went with the other pikmin? Also I felt bad for the blue pikmin that had crush a bud red pikmin and that same blue pikmin(The red pikmin boyfriend)died and the other one was one of the last ones alive.
My theory is that before olimar crashed the whole planet was filled with nine million pikmin one day hundreds of pikmin died Maybe surviving pikmin discovered onions and learnt how to use them and pellets The pikmin of each type went into the onions for hideing and they waited for days because they believed that somebody would discover them After pikmin 1 the pikmin killed the queen and king of the bulborbs for revenge because of creating a pikmin massacre.
The song at the end, it's on my ipod, it's called Always There [Howards Way Theme] It's a rare song. You can look up Libera Angel voices on youtube? Look up Always There Libera or Always There Angel Voices on youtube?
At 2:00 listen to that music in the background! That music is off of a game called Castlevania Symphony of the Night! The name of the music is called "Heavenly Doorway".
This is easily the saddest Pikmin video I've ever seen... and the best. It made me love Pikmin even more. I wonder why I don't play as him in brawl. His playstyle is just too awkward for me.
That...was....BEAUTIFUL! I really liked that. It's very cool. :) That's a good explanation of how Olimar just saw one Pikmin in the beginning. Very sweet story here~
I read somewhere that all the "predators are actually herbivorous and the Pikmin just so happen to be made of plant matter. Doesnt make this any less horrifying though.
This is pretty damn old, huh? I probably wasn't tech literate enough to have watched this as a fifteen year old at the time it came out. Still, good stuff. It really makes the arrival of Olimar appear as a miraculous heroic saviour, as much as it is a disaster for himself.
Olimar taught the Pikmin the values of Teamwork. With that, even the toughest enemies can be overcome. This let the Pikmin go from near extinction, to thriving, as we see in Pikmin 2, the first instance of wild Pikmin. In Pikmin 3, they pass this lesson on to the Kopaits, who are then able to save their planet using this lesson.
Chuggaa should respect him a little more don't you think i mean he's only a trooper because of his loss and now he wants to murder every last demon that murdered his friends but i do think that steve deserves a little more recognition from Chuggaa
The argument against that of course would be the massive number of pikmin seen at the end of the game but this could be explained by Olimar's presence-under his leadership many predators were killed off causing the pikmin population to jump When Olimar returns in Pikmin 2 the mass number of pikmin have dwindled back down to the scarce numbers they were before, showing that without his leadership they could not dominate
This is what I try to tell everyone. If you watch Pikmin 1's best ending, you can see that Olimar didn't abuse the Pikmin, but rather he helped them learn how to survive on their own.
TheInfernityZero ikr like oilmar is the reason they survived to pikmin 3
oh I never got the good ending because I always run out of time
@@freshmints I’m still shocked that there’s people who beat pikmin in 6 days
@@mushrooms5601 There's also one scene where he said to the Pikmins "hello Pikmins, did you missed us?" (According to my very poor memory 😀👍)
@@C.C.N that’s cute
Olimar literally revived an extinct species, or at least almost extinct. If you played Pikmin 1 you will know that there were no Pikmin at first, until Olimar inadvertently activated one of the onions, awakening it and generating a ray of hope for the species. Thanks to Olimar the Pikmin returned from extinction and not only that, as seen in the good ending, his help taught them to defend themselves. So Olimar is a hero
If you ever feel awful about losing Pikmin while you're out in the field, just remember that they were doing way worse before you came along.
I used to prefer to restart a game rather than lose pikmin. Not terribly useful, but that's just how I rolled. And god were some fights ridiculously difficult to win without losing pikmin. Hell, that's one of the reasons I ended up with my forces being 40-60% purple all the time no matter what.
I remembered this recently and had to find it again. I've always interpreted the ending as the last Pikmin, knowing itself to be doomed, making a wish on that star for some kind of help, not for itself but the future of its species--and lo and behold, there comes Olimar's ship. Sort of like when everybody wishes on a shooting star at the end of Paper Mario, and that star IS Mario's little ship thing. Maybe it's literalizing the metaphor, but for me at least it's a powerful idea. And because of this strange, dark little animation, it's a core part of the identity of the Pikmin series for me.
I remember watching this when i was really young.... and the screams of the pikmin scared me for life... T_T
The relatable content right here
Aasind AAWhsh same for me TOT
I know right?
idiot AAWhsh ikr why are pikmin animations so morbid
Folks really don't give Olimar enough credit for just how much he has helped the Pikmin. Even with the casualties along the way, you'll end the game with *WAY* more Pikmin than you started. And ever since the first game, the Pikmin race isn't totally extinct every time you see them. It shows the Pikmin benefit from him every bit as much as he does them. He brought them from the brink of extinction and taught them how to hold on for dear life. This mutualism even continues in Pikmin 3. Sure they're being used to farm fruit but the 3 captains are cultivating their race nonetheless and they outright save the Winged Pikmin from total extinction. Shame there aren't more videos that elaborate on this element.
I know, It is *shameful* that most of pikmin fans sees olimar as "evil-like slave-maker" rather than "the hero that saved little alien species from extinctation".
@@demonpikmin2343 It is especially sad when knowing that Olimar and the Pikmin saving each other is the intention... It is proven already with the lyrics of the official Strawberry Flower songs.
When it pans from the last Pikmin getting swarmed to the ship smoking in the foreground, I get chills. This was a world that needed Olimar.
A masterpiece. When I first saw this as a 7 year old I wondered if there would ever be another pikmin short. The way the art conveys the story is outstanding. I would love to see another.
Translation:
College work , access to Beijing Film Academy Animation School 4th Academy Award for best student work award.
love this unoficial prequel to pikmin 1. its a sad representation of the pikmin before olimar. it explains that pikmin 1 was not a story of slavory but of saving a entire species from extinction.
The official Pikmin short films are cute and all, but this right here was is and always will be the OG. This is what playing Pikmin for the first time at 6 years old FEELS like.
I remember seeing this video back when I first started getting into the Pikmin series, and being someone who's played Pikmin 1 to 3, this makes me really sad. You get attached to them, only to have them inevitably fall in battle or in some other way most of the time. But hey, they're fighting and living on for a reason, so their deaths aren't in vain at least. :c
HE WAS SO CLOSE TO SURVIVING AND FINDING OLIMAR
Oh god, this is the saddest thing I've ever seen. Now I have to replay Pikmin 3 and make sure that nobody is left behind
Tell me about it, when I've seen that vid, i started crying
damn i watched this nearly 10 years ago... still sadder than ever
People think the Pikmin are mistreated slaves that Olimar controls, but this alongside the songs Ai No Uta, and Namida Ga Afereta prove otherwise.
Thank you! Someone that knows the true story of the Pikmin and Olimar.
Wha- people think that olimar mistreats Pikmin? Show me one comment people think that
This video celebrates it's 10th anniversary soon.
Still as sad now as it was then.
Jamieanna Hernandez Yes
KirbyBulborb oof
One of the first videos I've ever watched on RUclips and it's still here after all these years
I remember watching this video back in 2011 and never being able to find it again until now because the title is just PIKMIN in all caps.
same it was scary
Wow, 16 years later. Still hits the same.
For those wondering what the song is. Search "The St. Philips Boy's Choir - Always There (Howard's Way theme)"
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I can't thank you enough I've been searching this since 2004!
Through Google Translate, the description translates as such:
"College work, 4th Academy Awards Animation School of Beijing Film Academy Award for best student work."
Pretty awesome!
I’ve been playing pikmin 2 and every time I see a pikmin get crushed, drown, burn, get electrocuted, poisoned, fall into the abyss, explode, or swallowed by a beast it really makes me feel guilty. Seeing those poor pikmin lose their lives just for captain Olimar. Although it does also warm my heart knowing they actually cared about Olimar. And they worked for him and Louie.
One of the first youtube videos I ever watched and it's still around...
it’s hard to believe it’s 2019 and I still love this franchise and everything it offers
Seeing this again nearly 10 years later makes me feel old.
Another interesting note is that it's outright said in Ai No Uta that the Pikmin follow Olimar and the others purely for selfless reasons, they wish to be helpful and never even expect love or respect in return, all because they LLLOVE ya!
Makes sense, with them having been saved from near extinction.
This is so good I lovely how creepy and eerie this is, the black and white art and it’s sort of old timey feel just adds to this and how you showed to creatures from the pikmins perspective shows how truly terrifying these must be to them and how when there are just the 2 left it’s really gives of a feeling of isolation and them being a alone with no were to run and monsters trying to eat them at everyturn and that choir singing really just adds to it so much great work
This was my first start at getting into Pikmin.
It feels so sad how time passed... and how the Pikmin managed thanks to a space captain.
It's so realistic how this animation with manga-art style represents all the pain, distress, death and suffering the Pikmin have in all the Pikmin saga (Most specifically in Pikmin 1+2, Pikmin 3 and Pikmin 4) during gameplay but I don't know why Nintendo promote the Pikmin saga as "cute" games if they're supposed that these are war repressenting Nintendo videogames (And even more this animation was made in the same year as Pikmin 2's release in 2004)
13 years later: still makes me cry
One of if not the first pikmin animation on RUclips and a great one at that
Wow
Something keeps bringing me back to this video around twice every year, sadly i do not remember when i first watched it, but maybe its the nostalgia, or the very very deep story behind this "Masterpiece". Well anyway to the point, Pikmin will always have a place in my heart along with this, this lonely animation to have sad emotions upon me and you that is if you read this and watched the animation, and i will be ending on this note.
Always keep in mind this video-
Hello, creator. I want to say that I absolutely love this animation. Everything is perfect, but there is something i'd like to know. It is about the song that played in this animation. I would be very glad if you agree to share us the title of this song. Perhaps, any youtubers/visitors here can help me to find/tell me the title of the song. I want to hear the extended version of this song so very badly.
Thank you for your attention.
After many years, the song has been forgotten!
zihe CG Oh my! You mean, you are unable to remember the title of the song?? Oh no, what should we do?
Any youtubers who read this: please help us to find thr title of the song! (It's played in minute 02:25)
I was going to ask the same thing! Such a bittersweet song.
The St. Philips Boy's Choir - Always There (Howard's Way theme). I used Shazam
@@beipiao hello old friend
Geeze, this really takes into account that EVERY creature on the planet was Pikmin predators.
It feels good to *DESIMATE THEM*
Finally I found this again!
IKR i remember when i first say this video shortly after it came out!!!
Onik Haven yes
Onik Haven I remember seeing this when I was little and I almost cried 😅
This made me cry when I was little
Translation for 3:35 and 4:17: "I..." "What do I live for?"
Damn, close to 15 years old and it’s still a depressing story.
Fantastic work in this!
I remember watching this when I was like 5 years old, there has never been a time where I’ve been so sad
Well..... That was depressing :/
all these years later and i still feel so upset over this i love pikmin so much
This was 16 years ago?! Im old man.
i love old pikmin content
Damn it where’s Olimar when you need him
Just crashed in
right there
Awh, it's ok, red! Pikmin cannot even feel love!!! :)
Wait, how is that happy?
Well, I mean towards each other .
They can love or hate different species from them.
Creation Realm No, Pikmin do feel love, as shown in the song Ai no Uta, which is about Pikmin loving Olimar and wishing that he would give them his love in return.
Red is my last fav pikmin
Creation Realm
*Ai No Uta plays in the Backround
*Namida Ga Afureta was added to the playlist
*War, war never changes...*
This was one of the first videos I had ever watched
This is so sad...but why? Pikmin are the most amazing aliens ever, why must they be broughten down in such a sad video? KIll everything my lil' colored carrots
Pikmin are the most powerful race on the planet but they have to have a strong leader in order to prosper. That is why in the time of Olimar's absence there were not as many Pikmin at the beginning of the second game then there were at the end of the first. It makes you think that in a way all these Hocotate inhabitants coming to the planet and leading them in a way prevents the species from dying out completely. Now if Olimar did not show up then there probably would not be any Pikmin.
I remember watching this!!! Man, the nostalgia of old RUclips...
小さい頃、これ見てピクミンやるの怖かった！
i was 6 years old when this came out... fuck
MyDixieNormiss I was -3 years old when this came
I don't know about the game, but this movie is really
outstanding. The scene where the last one running and
the sequence and detail after that, I can't see it without
being deeply moved. Great Work! Yeah this one makes me cry...
It was sad but did anyone notice that at 1:26 the pikmin that squished is the same pikmin that went with the other pikmin? Also I felt bad for the blue pikmin that had crush a bud red pikmin and that same blue pikmin(The red pikmin boyfriend)died and the other one was one of the last ones alive.
Ann Marie Gomez it's not sad pikmin suck!!!
Katie Laffin What a moron.
+Katie Laffin You suck!
+Katie Laffin i hate you >:T
Far out this video is still here after all this time?
Wow.
Those poor Pikmin! If only they had Olimar.
Nintendo needs to make Pikmin games as intense and emotional as these videos.
My theory is that before olimar crashed the whole planet was filled with nine million pikmin one day hundreds of pikmin died
Maybe surviving pikmin discovered onions and learnt how to use them and pellets
The pikmin of each type went into the onions for hideing and they waited for days because they believed that somebody would discover them
After pikmin 1 the pikmin killed the queen and king of the bulborbs for revenge because of creating a pikmin massacre.
I like how this is the only video saying that olimar is helping them...everybody else just says he uses them as cheap labor...XD
Why did the burrowing snagret sound like a elephant instead of any types of birds?
They sound like elephants in the games.
RUclips was a baby when this was made
This is kind of terrifying.
The song at the end, it's on my ipod, it's called Always There [Howards Way Theme]
It's a rare song. You can look up Libera Angel voices on youtube?
Look up Always There Libera or Always There Angel Voices on youtube?
This takes place before Olimar met the Pikmin.
Thumbs up if you agree.
People say this is the first vid they saw, but it's 2015 and this is the first time I saw it! XD
weird to think this video came out only two years after pikmin 2
Even if those Pikmin shorts Nintendo promised ever do come out, I highly doubt they'll ever be as good as this one.
They aren't as good as this
When the bird head ate the Pikmin I was like "NOOOOOOOO!..snif..snif"
Then when it make an elephant noise I started laughting like crazy XD.
this video lives rent free in my head
This was really good for 2006
I was 8 when I saw for the first time this video and and I remember how much I cried. Today after 10 years it still makes me very sad :(
Awww,so sad!
PS-I love your animation.I wish I could animate like that! If I were your college teacher,I would give you an A+.
I give this a infinite/10
もう16年前なの！？
upyea.
i mean yea
At 2:00 listen to that music in the background! That music is off of a game called Castlevania Symphony of the Night! The name of the music is called "Heavenly Doorway".
The dark side of the Pikmin events. 😔
Truly wordless story telling at its best
This is easily the saddest Pikmin video I've ever seen... and the best. It made me love Pikmin even more.
I wonder why I don't play as him in brawl. His playstyle is just too awkward for me.
That was probably the most professional video on youtube. It made me cry.
Thank you, it looks like I’m going to cry myself to sleep tonight.
I have to admit, this video sets up the story for Pikmin very well. The places the final three died are the places where the onions are.
This is like a anime type and so good and r.i.p for Steve the red pikmin
I love this! It gives an adequate prequel to the first Pikmin.
That...was....BEAUTIFUL! I really liked that. It's very cool. :) That's a good explanation of how Olimar just saw one Pikmin in the beginning. Very sweet story here~
I read somewhere that all the "predators are actually herbivorous and the Pikmin just so happen to be made of plant matter. Doesnt make this any less horrifying though.
This was made before pikmin 3 😮
steve died
Galactic Pickle hahahahahahaha
So did Jerry
@@pikiuia1251 look who’s back back again
@@mushrooms5601 I was 9 and oh my god was I stupid
@@pikiuia1251 I didn’t say you where dumb I was just saying that you where the Justin Y of pikmin videos
This is pretty damn old, huh? I probably wasn't tech literate enough to have watched this as a fifteen year old at the time it came out. Still, good stuff. It really makes the arrival of Olimar appear as a miraculous heroic saviour, as much as it is a disaster for himself.
Awesome! :D Though I wish this was in color. I totally see how Pikmin are very endangered creatures. :( Thumbs up if agreed.
this is really good! I wish they would make a Pikmin series
this is the video that inspired me to keep all my pikmin alive throughout pikmin 2
Hey, at least the Snitchbugs won't kill you!
Actually i think the snitchbugs try to save the pikmin in the games cause nothing can eat them while unplucked but thats just a theory A GAME THEORY
@@KirbyKidG Have you ever seen... a Snitchbug drop a Pikmin into the abyss?
That one Pikmin found Olimar and saved his species. Good Video!!
I really like this video!
J Dawg 25o
You still do, younger me. You still do...
Olimar taught the Pikmin the values of Teamwork. With that, even the toughest enemies can be overcome.
This let the Pikmin go from near extinction, to thriving, as we see in Pikmin 2, the first instance of wild Pikmin.
In Pikmin 3, they pass this lesson on to the Kopaits, who are then able to save their planet using this lesson.
Chuggaa should respect him a little more don't you think i mean he's only a trooper because of his loss and now he wants to murder every last demon that murdered his friends but i do think that steve deserves a little more recognition from Chuggaa
Oh my gosh this just made me cry. may those pikmin rest in peace and happiness.
This is awesome!!!! How did you do it!!!
The argument against that of course would be the massive number of pikmin seen at the end of the game but this could be explained by Olimar's presence-under his leadership many predators were killed off causing the pikmin population to jump
When Olimar returns in Pikmin 2 the mass number of pikmin have dwindled back down to the scarce numbers they were before, showing that without his leadership they could not dominate