/tv/ - Movies and Television

pokemon infamously made a 6 minute anime to advertise Pokemon BW2 and everyone agreed it was better than the actual anime

Absolutely none of them. Video games are an interactive entertainment medium, TV series are a passive entertainment medium. They each have their own niche and trying to shoehorn stories intended for one medium into the other only ends in tragedy.

Clash at Demonhead would have been great old-school anime fodder since it already was taking its cues from it anyway.

>SIMON: Okayyyy. So. Brain scanned in Toronto. Woke up in a dystopian underwater nightmare. Must be Tuesday.

♪ OCEAN MAN, TAKE ME BY THE HAND, LEAD ME TO THE LAND THAT YOU UNDERSTAND… ♪

>ROBOT: Simon? Is that you? I can't feel my legs, Simon.
>SIMON: Yeah, well, buddy, hate to break it to you, but you don't have legs.

♪ OCEAN MAN, THE VOYAGE TO THE CORNER OF THE GLOBE IS A REAL TRIP… ♪

>SIMON: So the plan is to launch a digital utopia into space using a giant gun, because the Earth got hit by a comet?
>CATHERINE: Welllll when you put it like that…

♪ OCEAN MAN, THE CRUST OF A TAN MAN IMBIBED BY THE SAND… ♪

>CATHERINE: It's the WAU. It's trying to preserve life.
>SIMON: Well, it pretty much sucks at it!

♪ SOAKING UP THE THIRST OF THE LAND ♪

>SIMON: Am I… am I even me? Or just a copy of a copy? Or a copy of a copy of a copy?
>CATHERINE: (Sighs) Definitely the real you, only you could be this annoying…

♪ SEQUENCE OF A LIFE FORM RAISED IN THE SAND ♪
♪ OCEAN MAN ♪

>SOMA title card fades in

>SIMON: So, um… if the copy of me goes to space, and the real me stays here… who keeps my Funko collection? Cause you know, I had like A LOT of rare ones, I even had the…
>CATHERINE: Just pull the lever, Simon.

♪ OCEAN MAN ♪

>ON NETFLIX AUGUST 15th