Mega Man Ruby-Spears Cartoon Sales Pitch [VHS / 1994]
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- Whatever Mega Man fans got paled in comparison to this cartoon pilot, in my opinion. For full details of this VHS, please see my friend Protodude's Rockman Corner: www.rockman-cor... Special Thanks to both Protodude, the one who entrusted me to converting the tape, and Radiant Paragon, the original owner of this particular VHS circa 1994-1995.
Be sure to set the video to 60FPS before watching for more fluid animation. This pilot alone must have had quite a budget.
Who wants the unwatermarked video of the RubySpears anime pitch? If so, go nuts: archive.org/de... You're welcome.
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I'd like to give a Special Thanks to both Protodude, the one who entrusted me to converting the tape, and Radiant Paragon, the original owner of this particular VHS circa 1994-1995. Give it up for them for gracing us this valuable footage.
+OKeijiDragon Can we have a download of this without the watermark and the boarders?
Robert Walker Not for the time being. Sorry.
***** Well, this is real high quality stuff, and would've been used for different ideas... say like I want to use it for a recreation of the Ruby-Spears Mega Man Intro as what the audience wanted to see.
+Robert Walker Borders would be easy to take care of in any capable NLE, the only thing that's an issue for you is the watermark. Which, I guess, is why OKei put it there.
***** If I show you what my recreation of the intro is like, would you take that into consideration on the high quality download thing?
The production quality for this pitch was higher than the production quality for the entire finished product
+THiNGYBOBinc Yeah, seriously. Even with the original look of Mega Man, not sure if the show would of fared any better in story and quality.
Isn't that the point of a pitch?
It usually supposed to convince people.
Not
@@NameNotNeeded Not true
@@dreamlandkirby6422 Nope
My god...This could've been...so..freakin ....good... *tears*
Well, that's depressing. I'm glad the footage is at least preserved.
+AxlRocks0TheOriginal This had been sitting in my VHS tape drawer for the last 20 years, be thankful I'm a packrat ;)
This looks like it would have made a great anime, certainly better than the Ruby-Spears cartoon that was released. I prefer the art style much more in this one.
+Fanciful Dancing Star Focus groups ruin everything. Viewtiful Joe was decimated by one focus group despite being one of the best GCN games ever.
+Fanciful Dancing Star
Right? From the focus group they determined that Mega Man needed to be muscular and sound like a young man; this would have been exponentially better.
+The Timesmyth Some say the TV series is a guilty pleasure; and even if it has duds, like Mega X, just be glad that it doesn't have kids be main characters like in the OVA.
We ended up getting the OVA, and we also got memes from the Ruby-Spears cartoon, isn't this the best timeline?
+Bleal Leal Nope.
I came for the scene where Gemini Man punched Elec Man in the face.
Wow, "Bright Man" looks an awful lot like Elec Man.
+teckworks O hai teck.
Hey Teckworks.
+teckworks What are you talking about? He CLEARLY said "Brike Man", the original robot master, do not steal.
+teckworks well hey look who showed up :P
facts! what's with bright man? lol
I think it's incredible how _dead-on_ the designs are. Ruby Spears really did their research. A pity the executives insisted on "Westernizing" the characters, I would have loved to see a TV series more faithful to the games. Like, you can tell the animators _really_ wanted to be more accurate, but some executive kept telling them "No, no, add more muscles! Make them taller! Give that blue guy a face with a chin, for God's sake! And make the sister older and hotter, no boy wants to see a cutesy little _girl_ in his robot action series!" And of course the writers occasionally came up with _masterful_ plots like "lion-men". But at least we got "Pharaoh Man's punch" out of the deal.
in fairness, when I was a kid in the 90s, that is exactly what I wanted from squatty little japanese characters. I didn't get it yet, I was drawing sonic and his friends as hulking muscle dudes because that is just what I thought was badass. It's funny how that reversed so hard in the 2000s and suddenly every franchise was like MAKE THE MAIN CHARACTER A KID KIDS ONLY WANNA SEE KIDS NOW
It's interesting they were still able to use a lot of this footage for the intro.
Some of the later designs (such as Shadow Man and Gravity Man) are _really_ accurate to the original, to the point that they kinda stick out among the more westrenized ones.
EDIT: just a quick thing i remembered related to the accuracy: they got Crystal Man's color right when the games didn't - he's supposed to be teal (or a at least tealish-green) like in his official artwork, yet in the games he's green.
@@robertlupa8273 Yes, the show was remarkably close to the official designs in many cases (and then there was Air Man). The animators must have used the official art as a reference point.
The sprite color discrepancy may have been a matter of what would show up best on screen. Napalm Man for example had a very bluish-purple color, unlike the lighter violet color he's best known for. NES limitations and all.
They also wanted Mega Man to have a rival so they decided to make his older brother Proto Man one of the bad guys. That was before Mega Man 7 where Bass and Treble were introduced came out.
What I hear from reviewers, execs showed the pitch to kids and they all hated it. They wanted MegaMan to be an adult rather than a kid.
Back in a time when CAPCOM needed Mega Man to keep the doors open...
On the bright side, if the cartoon wasn't animated by Ruby-Spears, we wouldn't have..... GUTS MAN'S ASS!!!
This promo and the animated series we got were animated by Ashi Productions in Japan. Ruby-Spears produced it.
still would have been worth it
Daa-naaaaa!
nah I Think The child mega man looking at guts man ass Would be funny And without we wouldn't have The memes like KUNG FU CUTMAN! or Now I Got Your Powers
@@jpyt845 NO!
Ah yes. The EGG BOMBING BIRDS. Truly the most memorable Mega Man characters.
Holy shit the action looks METAL as FUCK. Mega Man literally PLOWS THROUGH DARKMAN, jabs a bunch of robots in the face, Kicks Fire Man, violently electricutes Elec Man and creates enough explosions to make Michael Bay take notice.
I would watch the SHIT ouf of this.
Yeah, but ya know.
The animation looks very similar to "Mega Man: Upon A Star" which came earlier. Also, not only did they mistake Elec Man for Bright Man, but they renamed the Pipi's to the "Egg Bombing Birds". I guess because they didn't want kids to have an excuse to say "peepee".
+BlazeHeatnix - Definitive Dubs
The enemies were also all named in MegaMan II/Rockman World 2 for Gameboy as well.
I only remember this because I just finished it again the other day. (What, I like it..)
BlazeHeatnix - Definitive Dubs
I still love MM2GB/World 2 and MM5GB/World 5. *shrug*
Now this is Megaman.
Changing his overall appearance for the series is a huge setback.
I'm surprised by the fact that in every website where I have read this story says about Ruby Spears being responsible for this animated pitch, when in fact it was made by the Japanese studio Ashi Productions (Production Reed), the same that directed and animated the OAVs "Appearance in Japan", "Wishing Upon A Star" and "Future Beware". There is no way that someone in Ruby Spears has the talent to make a work of this quality. It does not make sense to me. It makes more sense is that the budget to produce this animation pitch came directly from Capcom and that Ruby Spears may only have payed for the rights to show this to potential broadcasters to get the money to produce their own cartoons, which I believe is cheaper than hire the japanese studio.
Check the first OAV here: ruclips.net/video/laiSpoBtruw/видео.html
It's a bit more complicated. Ruby Spears was involved with the OVAs as well, and one of the OVAs was even made specifically for an English market (complete with English credits, as well as Rockman being called MegaMan even in the Japanese version). I suspect maybe what happened is the studios involved with the project were having a hard time having TV networks willing to give the show a shot in it's original form, and probably resulted in the team re-designing it to be more "American", per say. But this is pure speculation on my part.
Worth noting, Ashi Productions and Capcom, were still involved with the project at this point. In fact, the main director for the series was still Japanese, as well as the final character designs being handled by the Japanese team. Licensing situations with the series, also, are at the hands of SHOCHIKU (which Discotek licensed the series from). I'm not sure what the licensing situation is with the OVA, as that was part of some educational program of sorts (forget what exactly it was called).
The history with the release of these OVAs, as well as the production behind it and the eventual TV series, is a strange one and I would love to hear the story how things went down going from how the OVAs and this pilot were, to the eventual final product.
That's sad that Capcom couldn't help Ruby Spears more
Even so, the Ruby Spears designs are remarkably close compared to those abominations from Captain N. Some are practically spot-on even in the actual show. So, someone on that team knew what the characters looked like.
No wonder this looks so similar to the "Upon A Star" OVA.
Exactly, the Upon a Star OVAs were actually "test pilot"/"proof of concept" animation done by Ashi Production, and Ruby-Spears. If you watched the 1st episode, "Appearance in Japan", you'll see all the credit are all in English, and the fact that OVA came out in 1993, and the TV series didn't came out until 1994. And according to Mega Man Fandom Wiki about the OVA:
"The producers of the American series also served as the U.S. production consultants on these episodes"
So that adds to the credibility that the 1993-1994 OVA were "test pilots" for the Ruby-Spears TV series.
Even though the art style is far more faithful, and as much as I would have loved to see this as the final product, the show we got was pretty good all things considered. They even gave Roll a purpose in the plot that wasn't glorified set dressing.
Still hilarious how the narrator describes Bright Man yet the footage shows Mega Man fighting Elec Man, but still this would've been great. Hopefully the 2017 show at least resembles this.
It looks VERY DIFFERENT
MegaQuint Er, it appear to use a Paw Patrol-esque style of animation.
@@unnamed7485 yup
Boy, this comment did not age well...
@@AiaAia55555 Pretty sure the cheesy 90s Ruby Spears one was even better than that more recent one lol.
this looks like sonic cd's cutscenes
This animation is beautiful. If only the show was like this.
if we're lucky. we'll get a higher resolution of this art style when the new cartoon comes out! I'm so hyped for new mega man cartoon!
LMAO fuck that just watch a single episode urself dude
Its BAAAAAdddd
GG, Mega Man 7 JP commercial used the beginning clip of this. With maybe some altered animation.
1:37 "Bright Man, with his blinding flashes of light!!!" That's Elecman in that clip genius xD. And besides. Elecman is in megaman 1. And Brightman in megaman 4 :D Job well done commercial dudes x). But I just looooove the animation in this commercial. So smooth and detailed 8D.
$300,000 per episode to animate
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GUTSMANS ASS!!!!! Dunnn dunnnn!!!
This looks a lot closer to the video games! That being said, while I hate agreeing with focus groups, I can see where they're coming from. If Astro Boy's lack of success in the US is any sign, viewers probably would've dismissed it as being too childish as well. Robot kids with superpowers don't do well here.
Anyway, the Ruby Spears show that actually came out was a big success in the ratings back in '94, so those focus groups must've known what they were talking about. And, it's great as a guilty pleasure.
rockman really did crib a lot from atom, but he ditched the goofy hair and weird shirtless-with-boots look for a helmet and gauntlets. I think that's what really made him more successful in general.. but man, you could de-chibi it a LITTLE but still leave MOST of it intact, yknow??
It looks much better
When did Rock learn to run at the speed of sound again?
Other than that, I freaking love this animation! No wonder I value Rockman OVA and SAR so much.
Presumably when he crossed over with Sonic
I'll always have a soft spot for the Megaman cartoon...but yeah, it looks like Ruby-Spears pulled a Gainax and blew the entire $300K budget on this pitch. XD
Not just $300K. It was $300K per episode, with a total of 27 episodes produced.
if we had this back then, we probably would've had a MegaMan X anime
This would've been a fantastic anime-esque cartoon.
This is like Megaman if it were animated by Richard Williams
it looks like megaman if it was animated by japanese animators with enough time and budget.
Someone said no to this. Let that sink in...
Omg 😭 the art style and animation looks amazing! Can't believe we got ruby-spears instead of this. They really fumbled so hard
we finally have a clean rip of this promo video
The "Mega Man" series we could've and should've got but never did!
You mean they actually had it right the first time then changed it?
+Rodney Hockey Pretty much.
Focus testing is a real bitch.
Demands from Capcom apparently are why the designs were changed.
Ah yes I fondly remember going to my friend's house and playing INTERACTIVE CARTRIDGES.
A BREAKOUT HIT WITH BOYS
Aw damn it... (dreams of what could've been)
+Gencoil This animation is up in par with Sonic CD's anime cutscenes in terms of authentically portraying the character properly, IMO.
+Squiz Hey someone should make a Mega CD version of The Wily Wars and make an FMV version of the ending with this animation as a side window akin to Sonic CD and the CD version of Mega Man X3.
+Gencoil ayy gen
+OKeijiDragon This test pilot was probably animated by Toei, the same company that animated Sonic CD's FMV animation.
I love this announcer talking about sales and marketing while mega man is being shot at
*we could have had it all..*
A prime lesson on why you should NEVER let focus groups and dumbass corporate executives influence the actual development of a show.
This looks so damned good compared to what was delivered. Probably would've lasted longer too 😞
Today they really need to go back to having focus groups for things lol.
This sounds like the trooper by Iron Maiden, I’ve loved Mega Man a whole lot and I still do
I seriously wish the 90s wasn't too much about many people being cool or edgy when it comes to pop cultures. Although I am not very sure about that.
60 frames really help's in showing the quality in video's if video tapes get capture in it.
The more I learn the more I realize that network executives ruin everything. What could have been. -_-
Thanks for uploading a higher quality version version, now the world can see it for what it truly is.
You're welcome! Glad to have let this be encoded and given to the fans!
_WE SHOULD HAVE GOT THIS!_
We would've finally gotten a video game based cartoon that actually looks like the games it's supposed to be based on. Too bad Focus Groups had to ruin it all.
Hi Protoman. :D
Many footages of this trailer seems like from japanese commercials, in-game animation and forgotten OVAs...
Yep, that was surely a teaser.
America back in 80s and 90s “if it’s not buff then its a no no”
"Bright Man!"
Elecman.
Is it me, or does Mega Man seem to be channeling Sonic a lot here?
A Mega Man/Sonic crossover in their original art styles would have been way past cool. Like, imagine if they could have released Mega Man and Sonic cartoons at around the same time, and did a crossover between the two shows. That would have rocked!
You know, it's high time Capcom and SEGA started doing more crossover games. I'm thinking a dedicated Mega Man & Sonic platformer game, a SEGA vs. Capcom game, and maybe a racing crossover, either between the two true blues' respective series or Capcom and SEGA in general. Maybe Capcom & SEGA All-Stars Racing? Ooh, I like that! Then they have three crossover titles: One leaning towards Capcom (SvC), one towards SEGA (C&SASR), and one where they meet right in the middle (MM&S), each with a different play style.
I like how they plainly state the target audience
Imagine a 90s anime of X saga with this style...but more edgy and dark
Thos is how i imagine my fanfic of X series, more bloody than the cutscene of Double killing reploids and more cruel and sadistic
I'm not sure what's worse; that this could've been a thing but wasn't because anime-style stuff hadn't caught on yet and focus groups are a bad thing to pander to most of the time, or the fact that this actually looks good and probably would've been the most accurate adaptation by far for like two decades.
1:37
Ha, they called Elec Man 'Bright Man'.
1:45
I love so much that they *really* didn't wanna call these things "Pipis"
I don't understand why the mega man 1 robots still obey Wiley. Light created them and he could just repair and reprogram them back into his control.
Why in the world didn’t we get THIS instead of whatever they ended up producing?!!
I have no doubt even if they kept this art style, the quality would of dipped once they had to start cranking out episodes.
Get this, capcom (or whatever international company in charge of getting anime over to the west) thought it was “too different from what western audiences were used to” and instead brought us that ugly, disgusting, vomit enducing westernized version of the show.
@@ericthedumbmet4699 your white though
Does it bother anyone that he didn't say "Robot Master" once?
BrainScratchComms sent me here and..well
From what I saw, this pitch looks..Awesome!!
Really cool stuff, the animation completely puts that weird "Let's learn about Japan!" OVA series to shame.
This looks perfect! Why did they ruin the designs for the final version? Makes me want to vomit just thinking about it.
That song kicks ass. Is there an mp3 of that anywhere?
All those Yellow Devils @ 0:20. Wily has no chill lol.
Each episode cost more than the amount Verbalase paid for that Hazbin Hotel amv of him getting chased by Charlie and ends with semi nsfw.
This makes me wanna go back and play the old games. :3
$300,000 per episode budget??
my aaasssssss it was
+Hannah Quigley much like games it's expensive to make cartoons as well even if the method of making them has gotten better. Animaniacs was roughly 450,000 per episode, Drawn Together is 700,000, in 2011 the estimate for cartoons was 500,000. Never underestimate how much money you need to do things.
+KelvinBelmont The Megaman cartoon that was released certainly didn't look like it was made on a $300K budget...
Oh my god. 0:22 Gemini you son of a bitch hitting Elec. How could you.
I wish it looks more like this anime back in 1994.
Instead of heroic muscular characters like in the USA that we have like a American cartoon.
This explains why Napalm Man was in the opening.
THANK YOU!
+KIKI Hideout No problem.
is this the same studio that did the sonic cd intro lol?
@Frizzurd what's your problem with toei sonic?
@Frizzurd oh, but they didn't use focus groups for sonic's redesign. they redesigned the characters because there were problems when using classic sonic's design.
@Frizzurd well, i read about it on sonic adventure's wikipedia page. it said the classic designs made them difficult to see.
Mega Man CD
I didn't even know this was a thing. Amazing.
Thank SomeCallMeJohnny for sharing this in the BSC Nintendo direct impression
+orbitman600 It got shared to Nintendo?
no , Johnny just mentioned it
Wow, they put a lot of GOD MODE in this promo lol
BrainScratchComms brought me here. Why didn't we get this art-style? Lol
This pitch looks awesome.
Focus testing found young boys wanted him to be more like a western superhero
(hug) Thank you so much for uploading this! the last one was horrible and unclean!
+The Official AnimeCitizen No problem. Its what i'm around for.
The last one was a 5th-6th gen rip of this one :) All copies of this came from mine, without my permission mind you, and after all these years - the internet deserved the original
Is there any chance you could make a download for an unwatermarked, properly 4:3 version of this? This is lost media and making the highest quality version of it online have a watermark and a border is a shame.
I'll think about it.
Sorry about that but I understand the reasoning, this footage has a long history of being stolen and uncredited. This was my tape, I sold it to archivers to be preserved because the only copy was a 5th-6th generation of MINE that was given to someone I never wanted to have it when I didn't want copies distributed like that in the first place.
holy shit i forgot i commented this lmao
@@NostalgiaUnicorn this is literally hoarding lol, it's "look what I have and you can't" no matter how it's worded. This type of thing is a major problem on the internet and it's saddening when it happens to lost media in particular.
bam archive.org/details/mega-man-ruby-spears-cartoon-sales-pitch-vhs-1994
Then the animation changed.....
+HyperSonicXtreme THE FUTURE REFUSED TO CHANGE.
I was ready to make another joke about the art style, but... did they call elecman brightman?
fun fact. some of this footage was used in japanese commercials from mega man games. like the part where gemini man hit elec man.
what commercial?
I'm sold
You're welcome :)
0:48 - 0:57 i love the cutman animation.
THE EGG-BOMBING BIRDS
Megaman looks so stupid running with his tiny stumpy legs, it's adorable.
What the hell?
Why the f**k didn't they release this?
Which complete spaz in marketing or whatever turned this down?
I hope Man of Action's Mega Man cartoon looks like this.
I understand someone asked a year ago, but are we ever getting an HQ download for a non-watermarked version of this particular video? Would really like to have this without the watermark ruining the footage.
archive.org/details/mega-man-ruby-spears-cartoon-sales-pitch-vhs-1994
@@OKeijiDragon
Oh wow, it's been a while...
Thank you for archiving this.
@@RgxSuperSonic No prob. Sorry for taking this long.
Let's hope the new cartoon looks like this.
+Donte Morgan new cartoon?
cannonfodder4000 Man of Action is making the new animated series.
+Donte Morgan I can't wait
fistpump64 Me too, dude.
"Let's hope the new cartoon looks like this." ...Sigh.
this is SICK! :D
cuts man turning and running had me on the floor.
This could be a classic, rather than 90's mistake that we have.
1:38 That's Elec Man, not Bright Man.
This is a teaser from Mega Man. But for me could be an anime footage from some Mega Man OVA series compere to Ruby work. I'm a huge Mega Man Fan
why wasn't this a real thing? why why why why why why?!
So im still looking the background song is jamming please show me a version of the song with out the guy talking
WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T WE GET THIS?! THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY. SALT. SALT. SALT.
We got robbed.