Why aren't there cartoons of popular video games/tv shows/movies being made anymore...

I loved the toy line though. I had all of them.

I could've lived without their "Sonic says" segments at the end of each episode.
Just why?? Oh Why?

Most cartoons that were ho king a toy or videogame had to pretend to have some sort of educational value

Aside from Sonic Boom, the last cartoon I can think of that was based on a game was Pac-Man.

Those were actually mandated by law at the time, I think.

> Is it because the old 80s/90s cartoons were so bad nobody wants to give up the license anymore?
Basically this. It would take at least another 20 years before anybody would dare come close to that batch of toxic waste.

>Street Fighter from what I remember, had to cook an entire original series from the cast of a fighting game with their little of backstories and characterization at the time

This is gonna sound like a load of b/a/rnacles but it isnt that hard to tell a compeling story if thats what you really want to do. Also actual talent dont hurt.

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The anime movie still remains as probably one of the only good video game based movies ever made. At the very least it's impressive for actually including every character from the game, most don't even do that.

Wasn't the cartoon based on the awful live action movie? Or am I remembering wrong? If so it was going to be shit no matter what.

By the time an animated series is done, edited to hell and back by the whims of management and aired, the game its based on will be finished and forgotten in the monthly churn.

Many people bought Red Dead Redemption 2 and many people have finished it, but many wouldn't tune in to watch the show of it NOW, when they could play the next game coming out.

sly cooper is getting a show

If Minecraft, Five Nights at Freddy's and Fortnite got cartoons the shitposting would be unbearable

western games arent story driven. its either open world/sandbox trash or a boring walking simulator.

gravity rush 2 has a short anime dvd and manga . although japan still gets many mangas of videogames.

>Double Dragon on the other hand, SUCKED!
Double Dragon also pretty much wasn't an adaptation though. The first two episodes adapted the game's story (specifically the NES version, thus the villain twist) but everything afterwards was completely original. It's just that their original story sucked anyway.

Kids don't watch tv, and adults don't watch animation. It's a lose-lose situation where no target demographic or market for licenced cartoons exists.

Cartoons had been under scrutiny for a while for their lack of educational value, and the dergulation based merchandise driven shows of the 80s especially were given a watchful eye. It goes as far back as He-Man, shows ending with some moral message to help mask that they were still a 22 minute advertisement. It affected a lot more shows across the next decade and a half than you might realize. Some examples include
>Captain N's creative team realized they'd set upon almost immediately for as big a name as Nintendo was, so the show never actually says the word "Nintendo" at any point to mask its intent. At the same time, Big N themselves made sure to do everything in their power to make sure nothing would help contribute to the "video games are addictive" mindset that was also going at the time
>The varying Super Mario Bros cartoon, as the series went along, would increase the amount of educational plots and moral lessons each show. Super Mario World is especially heavy handed about this, as it simultaneously frames every episode with "we teach the cave people a concept" and usually the negatives of that concept (TV, junk food, etc)
>Muppet Babies owes its existence to the fact that Henson thought there wasn't enough positive influences on children on Saturday morning. This lead to Muppet Babies, while being entertaining, to focus on a central theme of imagination and creativity to impart on its viewing audience.
>Project Geeker was cancelled after one season on CBS despite good ratings as the show didn't have enough educational value to meet the FCC's standards of the time.

It's easier to make money by releasing unfinished games for €69.99 and charge for DLC over a year making it a total of €180 and having minimum wage slaves do it instead of paying big studious to advertise for you

Kind of. The movie was a big influence (thus Zangief working for Bison and Guile as the main character, Sawada is a character too), but it wasn't an official tie-in, and used the game designs, special attacks, also some characters like Dee Jay and Balrog just disregarded their movie versions since they were unrecognizable.

By season 2 there was a lot of Street Fighter Alpha stuff too which obviously has nothing to do with the movie.

Because cartoon and videogame fans would never be able to co-exist.
Making a cartoon means have a relatively stable time-line and (depending on the game) that may cause trouble with the videogame fans who may get pissed because of things like "that's not canon" or "that didn't happen in the game" or "they picked the worst ending" (if it's a multi-ending game. Not even fighting game can be cartooned because they have, even loosely, a canon story...maybe Mortal Kombat since 11th ended in a time reboot again.

Oh God, they got Guy's backstory wrong. Bushinryu started in Japan not Tibet, Graz Entertainment. That's why you went defunct.
Double Dragon's 2nd season was painful to watch. They hyped up this Shadow Khan to be major threat only to realize he's just a Dollar Tree Scarecrow.

>Why aren't there cartoons of popular video games/tv shows/movies being made anymore?
What is Netflix's Castlevania? What is the upcoming Pacific Rim anime?
Just because they're no longer being broadcast on a dying service doesn't mean they aren't being made.

I liked the Final Fight episode that reduced Cody to a retarded caveman who pretty much could only scream out MUH JESSICA every ten seconds.

There have been quite a few anime based on games that have sold well, but most of them are mobile games and lesser known console games.

>Why aren't there cartoons of popular video games

What about the recent Mega Man cartoon?

Ohhhhhh, you said POPULAR video games. My mistake.

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No wonder Capcom of Japan turned him into a jailbird in Alpha 3
Muppet Babies wasn't all that bad. It gave us classic movie clips and that episode with cameos of Stan Lee, Spider-Man and The Hulk was fun.

Oh, didn't mean to sound like I was slighting it. But more it even happened at all (beyond just "money") because Jim saw Saturday morning and saw an opportunity to do better.

>tfw SatAM and Double Dragon were nearly the same cartoon but people pretend SatAM is good.

Wh-Why at they fishmen?

Why does Ryu in the TV anime look like Akira from Virtua Fighter?

It's a dragon helmet. Still weaksauce

They are supposedly dragons.
Little ol' me liked that gimmick. Older me just shrugs, and walk in shame.

It's the simplest premise ever. Walk around, beat up bad guys.

Even fucking Batman from the 1960s at least had that, as cheesy as that was.

Strangely attractive for fishmen, too

Really? After the movie bombing?

Most of the time cartoon adaptations are wildly different than the source material for that exact reason.

Because most good games today are Japanese. I hate it, but it’s true.

We could of had a TF2 show but AS didn't want to deal with Valve Time.

i thought they got rid of the movie for a tv show?

I think user mixed Sly Cooper up with Rachet and Clank.

Video games are already a cartoony surreal experience for kids
youtube.com/watch?v=2XtLEp0XAII

>Minecraft cartoon
Well it got that Telltale game that got turned into a Netflix Interactive show

toyetic children's cartoons based on IP for older audiences was one of the most baffing thing back then
youtube.com/watch?v=AoWexi-DWFQ

>Kids don't watch tv, and adults don't watch animation.
Pretty much this

And anime tie-ins are usually made ALONG side the game, not years after and made by the game company itself.And sometimes the anime comes out BEFORE the game to get kids excited for it.

And video game animes are 100% commercials aimed at 5-year olds. Yeah, they tend to be violent and maybe have some nudity,etc, but they are still kids shows and are kind of dumb. And also anime is really cheap to make, made in the same country it’s being aired(japan) and don’t have to deal with censors or anything. The process is really smooth. And there’s animes based on card games, phone games(like puzzles and dragons)

I remember when Persona 5 came out, people bragged how they were binge-watching let’s plays of that game on their smart tv’s like they were watching s tv show.

Also there WAS a persona 5 anime that came out last year and I think everyone hated it. So there’s that...

>Do what Sonic Boom did, separate the show from its trainwrek of a game and keep it zany and funny, and sometimes self-aware.
FUCK NO. If I am ever in charge of Sonic I am making it in the style of Genddy Tartakovsky.
Samurai Jack lends itself really well to video games and vice versa.

I don't know what is it with Megaman, but it's the only video game franchise to get consistent GOOD cartoon shows and good reboots.

Because they're almost always shit. See image.

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The source material might've been for older audiences but kids still knew of them and watched them. Sometimes I think you guys were born in pods and never were children.