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Oh Bandana Dee will be taken very well in Japan. Kirby's ridiculously popular over there, and Waddle Dees are considered even more iconic than Meta Knight and even King Dedede.
As are most Nintendo games, but you're being intentionally misleading if you're gonna claim that DKC has any exceptional popularity in Japan when the games have always been slightly above average to modest selling over there.
This is pre-reveal Rhetoric that has never had any basis in reality or any proof to back it up, and as I have said, Japanese K.Rool discussion essentially exclusively revolved around the assumption that Sakurai wouldn't ignore the loud as hell westerners memeing the character(s) up. PushDustin's poll reflects this.
He was extremely expected due to noisey western fans, but not exceptionally desired in any way.
How do you know what their discussions were like? I'm not doubting you, I just don't know where you got this info. Also, why would they vote for him in the poll if they didn't care for him?
The first DKC sold 2 million copies there alone, which is more than any other western games at the time. It did exceptionally well.
And where is your proof of this claim? This is contradictory to things disclosed by Pushdustin - who speaks Japanese and lives in Japan. All data, including trailer views, tweets, and information gathered from Japanese forums indicates K. Rool is popular there.
I browse 2ch, follow japanese gaming media like Famitsu and the like, and have a discord that has a few people from the country. The character isn't hated in Japan or anything, but to imply that he has the same obnoxiously giant status he does in our community is flat out untrue. If he did ever place, he did so because people expected him, rather then sheer passionate desire to see him
Based on what? PushDustin's chart created via questionable methods? We have multiple large scale japanese gaming media outlets listing Dee as essentially the most wanted character in the country. I've only seen K.Rool chart on a single japanese poll, and it was based purely on who people EXPECT to be added, and he STILL charted below 3 characters, one of whom was the Dee.
Well, that's pretty interesting. I'm assuming he's still decently popular there though, right? It's still weird so many would vote for him if they don't even care for him. Do you have like a general idea of who's popular there then? I'm assuming Bandana Dee is near the top.
So your opposition needs citations to prove the Japanese popularity of a confirmed character, but we need to take your word for it that the sample size you have personally viewed is indicative of all of Japan.
I would like to believe that people are not so soulless they would vote exclusively for what is likely over what they want.
Very true. But I think there's hope for this game. Aside from Masked Dedede which we've all mentioned, I did some looking up, and it turns out that they actually updated Kirby's jump animation (And I think his dash too?) to be more in-line with his animations in the RtDL-styled games.
Of course. He's the main villain of DKC after all. I'm just saying he's pretty modest over there. You know how most people generally consider, say, Paper Mario to be a cool addition idea, but there's no crazy explosive GROUND SHATTERING demand for him? That's K.Rool in Japan.
They do in polls specifically made asking for what character people expect. Ironically enough the exception here is Dee, who was said to be voted out of sheer desire.
HAVE THIS BEEN PROVEN TRUE OR FALSE? I WILL BE REALLY SAD IF IT'S REAL
Nice shop, /v/
It hasn't been proven either way but, the source was originally 4chan, and Verge hasn't said anything about it to my knowledge, so it's most likely fake. Someone probably just photoshopped it lol.
It is a photoshop. It was confirmed the last comment Vergeben made was in reference to Ken of Street Fighter fame.
He confirmed it was fake a few hours ago! Even though I don't really believe Verge, I'm glad it's 100% fake.
With that in mind, it's pretty telling how relevant this comic is after all this time:
You can say that again.
nice to see someone else in favour of chibi and bandana
Thank god! I can breathe now lol. Btw I’m happy that more leaks are choosing Bandana as a possible newcomer, before the direct he wasn’t picked as much.. I know this doesn’t mean much but it is always neat to see your favorite character’s name in those lists
Yes, I think that the parasol will be incorporated in a similar fashion that in Super Smash Flash 2. It would be really cool, I love his moveset there.So yesterday, my Waddle Dee amiibo came in, and I decided to try it out with Planet Robobot, and I saw something of interest that I didn't realise before.
I also threw out this in the BD discord last night.![]()
I was already aware that the Waddle Dee amiibo gave you a Bandana Dee costume with a parasol, but I didn't realize at the time that the parasol is the same one Bandana Dee uses in Battle Royale's story mode. (Or well, any of the Waddle Dees.)
I personally think it increases the chances of Parasol being incorporated into Dee's moveset, should he get in, since they did go out of their way to design a special Parasol to be assosciated with Bandana Dee over a year before Battle Royale came out. And Planet Robobot released about half a year after the completion of Ultimate's Project plan. Not sure when the Parasol was designed, so I may be stretching it, but it's fun to think about.
Thanks for the little comment! I got some bad news and good news for you. Let's start with:
Back around E3 time, I made a list of a great many items like this.
...I feel like I just commited plagiarism.Back around E3 time, I made a list of a great many items like this.
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There are more reasons, but this is an old image. Also, although the Bandana Dee amiibo evidence was debunked, there is still Waddle Dee amiibo data because of that amiibo.
nah it's fine. To be fair, I did make that before you apparently joined. I don't remember if I ever posted it in this thread though. 
Seems like you did.
My unexpected influencing of you
. Not in a bad way tho. It's basically like, you read what I said, and were like "these all make sense" so you worked on elaboration of those points and waited for an opportunity to say. 
Wait he had a quote in Kirby Clash? Holy that's another boost. Add that to the two quotes in Star Allies. This could definitely be hardcore teasing.
I agree. Sakurai's bias at this point is pretty much the make-or-break for BD. We don't know what his opinion is on the character, and this could seriously affect his chances.
