What's up with companies wanting to redesign their characters for TV shows ? First Sonic, now MegaMan ? The Sonic designs were at least alright (with the funniest concept arts), but this MegaMan seriously looks bad. I mean...
The original design is simple, with a great use of shades of blue contrasting the red spots in his gun and feet (and ears), showing that they have fire power, or at least dangerous (ear blasters, where are you ?).
The face is pretty anime-ish, but are not a problem, and if anything gives the personality that MegaMan needs to show that he has humanity, thus showing that he is the protagonist.
And his proportions are pretty normal, emphasizing the important parts of his body by making them a little larger (mega-buster and feet).
All and all, a solid design.
And then you got this design, with his dark blue colors conflicting with the super light blue colors, hurting the eye.
That's the first problem with this design, the color palet. When you design a character, you don't want the colors to
only be one color, with extremely conflicting shades of that same color. You don't pick a character, paint it all red with a super light red and a super dark red, it looks bad.
The body looks pretty bad as well. The proportions are too extreme, you don't put a big mega-buster, that doesn't even look threatening thanks for the size, on a skiny man, that just looks wrong. The arms and legs don't even have muscles to at least show the character has power, they're just flat out skiny, too skiny. It makes this MegaMan look weak, and you don't want that for a protagonist like MegaMan.
Finally, his face isn't looking all that expressive. The eyes especially look wrong on him, they don't look alive. It doesn't help to show a kid that this character is supposed to be cool or at least alive.
How can anybody call this design good, it's far from appealing !
I don't know how this cartoon (or "anime") will end up, but this design isn't great. It's my opinion, so think what you want, but I still think they should have scrapped this from the get go.