The Anigriffin
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October 5th huh. Well it all comes down to this. Firstly, how about that Nintendo direct huh? I don’t think I’ll ever understand why Chris Pratt was chosen to be Mario over like, literally anyone else but eh. I feel like Miyamoto being there made it way more surreal than it needed to be.
October 5th is also the day NASB drops which I find a tiny bit bizarre. Like, was this chosen on purpose? Like, is it to dunk on them? I kinda doubt that as the game is coming out on the Switch however. I can’t see Nintendo making unnecessary competition, Yeah the Nick game probably isn’t going to take off as far as some smash tubers think it is, but for Nintendo to announce the character during the launch to me says that it’s not gonna be a character that will break the internet. Again, the game is being released on the Switch, it’d be dumb to announce something like Sora. (Who I’d love but have absolutely zero hope for) It’s probably gonna be someone that’s Terry tier in my opinion where the better part of gamers aren’t really gonna know who this character is, or just isn’t as popular. As Sakurai said in his Terry video: It’s important that the character is fun to play, not just being recognizable.
And as I was in the middle of writing this, NASB delayed the game to the 8th. You can’t make this crap up.
I was right about the character being most likely released in mid-late October if they were announced early though.. If we look at the day Kazuya was announced, which was the 15th of June and compare it to the day he was released which was June 29th. 14 days or two weeks later. Pyra/Mythra were announced Feb 17th, released March 4th, once again two weeks later. Sephiroth was announced on December 10th and was released on the 22nd, a little less than two weeks, but if it was exactly two weeks it would have actually been Christmas so… It’s understandable.
ANYWAY to me this says the earliest we’re getting the character would be the 18th while the latest would probably be the 21st with how these last three characters have been released. Though we are probably looking at the 18th or 19th for a release as most fighters drop on Mondays or Tuesdays. It’s also probably to give time for Metroid Dread to shine as well.
Anyways, how about them N64 titles eh? Never thought I’d see the day! I mean, I guess I thought it was possible, but just kinda thought it wouldn’t be any time soon. Though it does make me think. Are we done with the bigger NES and SNES releases? When the SNES games dropped, the NES games dropped in quality. And by that I mean the classic first party entries disappeared. There were still games, but no noteworthy 1st party titles. With the N64 games on their way, looks like the SNES games will follow the same route (though honestlly, they’ve already declined pretty bad already, DKC3 was the last decent
addition of note which was in December, ALMOST AN ENTIRE YEAR AGO.) which begs the question:
WHERE THE **** IS EARTHBOUND?!?!
Seriously. This is ridiculous. Whether it be a collection or a remake, that’s the only way I see this happening. Because as a reminder, NA isn’t the only region without these games. Japan, the region that the games are the most popular in, ALSO don’t have them. They clearly don’t want to put them on the NSO, so selling them is the only option. There have been rereleases of the vinyls this year, a metic ton of merchandise being released constantly for well over a year and even leaks that the franchise would be included at Universal Parks. The Switch is the first console in history that has not had plans for an EB game that we know of. There’s just no way they’re gonna skip out on this goldmine of a console. I guess I just don’t know what the hell they’re waiting for then unless there’s something else in the pipeline.
Also I noticed something kinda interesting about the DLC characters. Joker and Sephiroth were big VGA announcements, Hero, Banjo, and Kazuya were all unveiled at E3, while Terry and Pyra/Mythra were shown off in normal run of the mill directs. Min Min, Steve, and Byleth were not. Two out of three of these characters were first parties.
However, Steve is a bit of a weird case here. Think of the time period of when he was revealed though. No real directs, no real announcements, no E3. There’s no way there wasn’t at least an initial plan for a E3 presentation, and Steve fits the bill perfectly. But due to the delays, it makes sense why he didn’t happen there. There’s also the whole thing of Steve being announced BEFORE the Sakurai presentation. Min Min and Byleth were revealed IN their respective Sakurai Presents. Yes Min Min’s franchise was announced earlier, but her actual character WASN’T. So both times when there was a reveal in a Sakurai Presents, they were first parties. So I’m pretty damn confident in this being a first party.
Something else I should mention is that we haven’t gotten a true shill rep this pass. Now a shill rep doesn’t necessarily mean that the character comes out at almost the same time as what it’s shilling. For example, Byleth was obviously a shill rep, but his game came out 6 MONTHS before he was even revealed. Hero was revealed and even released several months before Dragon Quest 11 Definitive edition was even out. You could argue that Corrin came out around the same time as Fates, however, the game was already out in Japan for over half a year. The only real DLC “shill rep” that I can think of that was released at the same time was Lucas and EB0 in 2015. I guess my point here is that if it’s a shill rep, it’s not gonna be Metroid, and could even be for something that isn’t even announced as Lucas was announced long before EB0 dropped. Just something to mention.
One other thing. I was looking at the Mother Project part of the Hobonichi site, and I noticed a couple things. Firstly, there’s planned restocks of a ton of items that have been long out of stock. I’m talking things that haven’t been sold in many months. The hotel travel souvenirs are a good example and just got restocked on the 28th of this month. Some Mr. Saturn plushes as well as Ninten/Ness’s hat are coming back in stock in December. The only things I see that aren’t planned to be restocked are the knee high Mr. Saturn and the Mother 2 jacket.
What’s more interesting to me is the 2022 calendar on the site. Rather than just be the same as last years, they changed it up. The wall calendar consists of locations from EarthBound and that seems to be it which is different from the previous calendar that contained pages from all three games. The old desktop one consisted of locations from only EarthBound. This new one however, is all locations from EB0. Pretty interesting right? Likely doesn’t mean much, but still cool nonetheless.
Finally we got Pollyanna 2 coming out on October 21st. So less than a month away, they’re releasing a second official manga, which just sounds weird to me. I would have thought they’d release it closer to Christmas honestly as that’s when the scripts came out. Or in the summer like the last book came out. Why October? Just strange…
Though it gets a little tiny bit stranger. On the Hobonichi site, they’ve confirmed that there will be “long interviews” with voice actor Yuichi Nakamura and member of the band SUPER BEAVER Ryuuta Shibuya. Here’s the link.
https://www.1101.com/n/s/mother_project/pollyanna2_pre01
I certainly have a question though; Why? The first Pollyanna comic did not include interviews. So… Why does this one? Pollyanna 2 supposedly wasn’t planned from the beginning of the Mother Project, so if any book should have interviews, wouldn’t it be the first one? Also, of all the people in the world, why these two? Yuichi has voice acted in Nintendo games before such as Xenoblade and Fire Emblem, but he’s never been involved in a Mother based project before. Same with SUPER BEAVER. There’s zero connection between SUPER BEAVER and Nintendo, EarthBound, or even Itoi that I can see. I can’t even really see a connection between Ryuuta and Yuichi. It could be just interviews with celebrity Mother fans, but it just seems really weird. Like why not interview Keiichi Suzuki on his new Mother albums that just came out THIS YEAR.
Also, this probably means nothing, but they have not shown off the back cover of this book yet. The back cover of the original book sported an ad for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. With how the original Pollyanna book advertised the Mother Project merchandise within the pages of the manga, the non Mother Project ad was on the back cover. So if there is an ad on the back cover, it’s likely not gonna be Mother Project merch. So I guess the question here is, what’s the ad gonna be? Could very well be the exact same Smash ad as last year, but that’d be weird as this manga is going as far as having interviews in it so I don’t see them copy pasting an ad.
Though, this is all kinda weird if you threw it all together. We got a smash character that’s extremely likely to be a first party/Nintendo character being revealed on the 5th, most likely will be released on the 19th, while this manga debuts on the 21st and contains interviews from a voice actor known for voicing younger male characters and a band member from a group that’s never been known to associate with Nintendo before and they haven’t even mentioned the reasons FOR these interviews yet. I don’t even think the guys themselves have mentioned it yet. Or else I would have certainly heard about it by now. Without them showing what the ad is on the box it makes this whole situation weirder. There’s no way the ad isn’t gonna be Mother related. The question is, what’s it gonna be?
So help me god if Ninten is actually in this game and is voiced by Rex goddamned Raptor I will loose my ****ing mind.
I’ll make one final recap and post in a couple days. I’m not saying this is all proof of anything but god. It always seems to get weirder.
October 5th is also the day NASB drops which I find a tiny bit bizarre. Like, was this chosen on purpose? Like, is it to dunk on them? I kinda doubt that as the game is coming out on the Switch however. I can’t see Nintendo making unnecessary competition, Yeah the Nick game probably isn’t going to take off as far as some smash tubers think it is, but for Nintendo to announce the character during the launch to me says that it’s not gonna be a character that will break the internet. Again, the game is being released on the Switch, it’d be dumb to announce something like Sora. (Who I’d love but have absolutely zero hope for) It’s probably gonna be someone that’s Terry tier in my opinion where the better part of gamers aren’t really gonna know who this character is, or just isn’t as popular. As Sakurai said in his Terry video: It’s important that the character is fun to play, not just being recognizable.
And as I was in the middle of writing this, NASB delayed the game to the 8th. You can’t make this crap up.
I was right about the character being most likely released in mid-late October if they were announced early though.. If we look at the day Kazuya was announced, which was the 15th of June and compare it to the day he was released which was June 29th. 14 days or two weeks later. Pyra/Mythra were announced Feb 17th, released March 4th, once again two weeks later. Sephiroth was announced on December 10th and was released on the 22nd, a little less than two weeks, but if it was exactly two weeks it would have actually been Christmas so… It’s understandable.
ANYWAY to me this says the earliest we’re getting the character would be the 18th while the latest would probably be the 21st with how these last three characters have been released. Though we are probably looking at the 18th or 19th for a release as most fighters drop on Mondays or Tuesdays. It’s also probably to give time for Metroid Dread to shine as well.
Anyways, how about them N64 titles eh? Never thought I’d see the day! I mean, I guess I thought it was possible, but just kinda thought it wouldn’t be any time soon. Though it does make me think. Are we done with the bigger NES and SNES releases? When the SNES games dropped, the NES games dropped in quality. And by that I mean the classic first party entries disappeared. There were still games, but no noteworthy 1st party titles. With the N64 games on their way, looks like the SNES games will follow the same route (though honestlly, they’ve already declined pretty bad already, DKC3 was the last decent
addition of note which was in December, ALMOST AN ENTIRE YEAR AGO.) which begs the question:
WHERE THE **** IS EARTHBOUND?!?!
Seriously. This is ridiculous. Whether it be a collection or a remake, that’s the only way I see this happening. Because as a reminder, NA isn’t the only region without these games. Japan, the region that the games are the most popular in, ALSO don’t have them. They clearly don’t want to put them on the NSO, so selling them is the only option. There have been rereleases of the vinyls this year, a metic ton of merchandise being released constantly for well over a year and even leaks that the franchise would be included at Universal Parks. The Switch is the first console in history that has not had plans for an EB game that we know of. There’s just no way they’re gonna skip out on this goldmine of a console. I guess I just don’t know what the hell they’re waiting for then unless there’s something else in the pipeline.
Also I noticed something kinda interesting about the DLC characters. Joker and Sephiroth were big VGA announcements, Hero, Banjo, and Kazuya were all unveiled at E3, while Terry and Pyra/Mythra were shown off in normal run of the mill directs. Min Min, Steve, and Byleth were not. Two out of three of these characters were first parties.
However, Steve is a bit of a weird case here. Think of the time period of when he was revealed though. No real directs, no real announcements, no E3. There’s no way there wasn’t at least an initial plan for a E3 presentation, and Steve fits the bill perfectly. But due to the delays, it makes sense why he didn’t happen there. There’s also the whole thing of Steve being announced BEFORE the Sakurai presentation. Min Min and Byleth were revealed IN their respective Sakurai Presents. Yes Min Min’s franchise was announced earlier, but her actual character WASN’T. So both times when there was a reveal in a Sakurai Presents, they were first parties. So I’m pretty damn confident in this being a first party.
Something else I should mention is that we haven’t gotten a true shill rep this pass. Now a shill rep doesn’t necessarily mean that the character comes out at almost the same time as what it’s shilling. For example, Byleth was obviously a shill rep, but his game came out 6 MONTHS before he was even revealed. Hero was revealed and even released several months before Dragon Quest 11 Definitive edition was even out. You could argue that Corrin came out around the same time as Fates, however, the game was already out in Japan for over half a year. The only real DLC “shill rep” that I can think of that was released at the same time was Lucas and EB0 in 2015. I guess my point here is that if it’s a shill rep, it’s not gonna be Metroid, and could even be for something that isn’t even announced as Lucas was announced long before EB0 dropped. Just something to mention.
One other thing. I was looking at the Mother Project part of the Hobonichi site, and I noticed a couple things. Firstly, there’s planned restocks of a ton of items that have been long out of stock. I’m talking things that haven’t been sold in many months. The hotel travel souvenirs are a good example and just got restocked on the 28th of this month. Some Mr. Saturn plushes as well as Ninten/Ness’s hat are coming back in stock in December. The only things I see that aren’t planned to be restocked are the knee high Mr. Saturn and the Mother 2 jacket.
What’s more interesting to me is the 2022 calendar on the site. Rather than just be the same as last years, they changed it up. The wall calendar consists of locations from EarthBound and that seems to be it which is different from the previous calendar that contained pages from all three games. The old desktop one consisted of locations from only EarthBound. This new one however, is all locations from EB0. Pretty interesting right? Likely doesn’t mean much, but still cool nonetheless.
Finally we got Pollyanna 2 coming out on October 21st. So less than a month away, they’re releasing a second official manga, which just sounds weird to me. I would have thought they’d release it closer to Christmas honestly as that’s when the scripts came out. Or in the summer like the last book came out. Why October? Just strange…
Though it gets a little tiny bit stranger. On the Hobonichi site, they’ve confirmed that there will be “long interviews” with voice actor Yuichi Nakamura and member of the band SUPER BEAVER Ryuuta Shibuya. Here’s the link.
https://www.1101.com/n/s/mother_project/pollyanna2_pre01
I certainly have a question though; Why? The first Pollyanna comic did not include interviews. So… Why does this one? Pollyanna 2 supposedly wasn’t planned from the beginning of the Mother Project, so if any book should have interviews, wouldn’t it be the first one? Also, of all the people in the world, why these two? Yuichi has voice acted in Nintendo games before such as Xenoblade and Fire Emblem, but he’s never been involved in a Mother based project before. Same with SUPER BEAVER. There’s zero connection between SUPER BEAVER and Nintendo, EarthBound, or even Itoi that I can see. I can’t even really see a connection between Ryuuta and Yuichi. It could be just interviews with celebrity Mother fans, but it just seems really weird. Like why not interview Keiichi Suzuki on his new Mother albums that just came out THIS YEAR.
Also, this probably means nothing, but they have not shown off the back cover of this book yet. The back cover of the original book sported an ad for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. With how the original Pollyanna book advertised the Mother Project merchandise within the pages of the manga, the non Mother Project ad was on the back cover. So if there is an ad on the back cover, it’s likely not gonna be Mother Project merch. So I guess the question here is, what’s the ad gonna be? Could very well be the exact same Smash ad as last year, but that’d be weird as this manga is going as far as having interviews in it so I don’t see them copy pasting an ad.
Though, this is all kinda weird if you threw it all together. We got a smash character that’s extremely likely to be a first party/Nintendo character being revealed on the 5th, most likely will be released on the 19th, while this manga debuts on the 21st and contains interviews from a voice actor known for voicing younger male characters and a band member from a group that’s never been known to associate with Nintendo before and they haven’t even mentioned the reasons FOR these interviews yet. I don’t even think the guys themselves have mentioned it yet. Or else I would have certainly heard about it by now. Without them showing what the ad is on the box it makes this whole situation weirder. There’s no way the ad isn’t gonna be Mother related. The question is, what’s it gonna be?
So help me god if Ninten is actually in this game and is voiced by Rex goddamned Raptor I will loose my ****ing mind.
I’ll make one final recap and post in a couple days. I’m not saying this is all proof of anything but god. It always seems to get weirder.
