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This is, once again, where I appeal to Quentin Tarantino to make a No More Heroes movie.

It was probably all on Deep Silver. They were the publisher and they typically handle this kinda thing. They probably had the money but were just stingy. Given how Inti’s CEO responded, I get the sense that no one on the game side was aware of the marketing

I guess we’ll never know

If you were a backer or an invested fan, you’d already given up on MN9 by that point. But to community at large who weren't aware of the delays and drama, it turned the game into an immediate meme. It’s not a bad game, but it will never be able to escape that reputation. It’s a shame, really.

2/3rds done

Even crazier, there was another trailer done in the same style released months earlier. They were sitting on the “prom night” trailer for a VERY long time! There was possibly almost a year to make something different!

For the record, I watched anime and played video games with the girl I took to prom in 2002

I mean, it’s a rhetorical question, but it’s good to remind yourself that this isn’t actually about you

What’s funnier is there’s a far less popular trailer for Mighty No 9 where they imply that their fans are all creeps, or that playing MN9 online will expose you to creeps. The marketing of MN9 should be studied in colleges.

Re: Anime was universally loved in the 90’s - no it wasn’t Mighty No 9’s marketing team made an enormous miscalculation with the infamous line “cry like an anime fan on prom night” in **2016** Clearly enough people thought it was still hip to call anime fans dateless losers

Is it me? Or did the average person stop being the target audience and all these big tech guys are instead trying to convince and sell to billionaire investors? It’s like they don’t live in reality and that’s the point

You are not a skeleton trapped under skin, you are a brain trapped inside of a skull. Which is way more metal!

It was a sticky note taped to the case by the rental story. Technically there is briefly a naked little girl in the film, but she’s simply bathing with her family in an otherwise very innocuous and wholesome scene. I think the back still had a note insisting the film was family friendly

I think a little earlier than ‘03? I remember Yahoo Groups was a bit like Reddit back then and DBZ was one of the most popular groups on the entire site. Enough that there were articles written about it. But by ‘03, DBZ games were getting regularly released in North America

It was super niche. Akira came to laser disc in North America, Vampire Hunter D and Robot Carnival aired on Sci-Fi Channel all the time. Valley of the Wind came to VHS (tho chopped up to hell). It was around, you could get it, but culturally it was a very niche and expensive thing for weirdos

FUCK I’ve seen that clip many times now but “…that’s when they became a real country” is still such a knife twist!

Sure! If I recall, it was a sticky note scotch taped to the case. I think printed on the back it clarified that it was a family friendly film, but at the local Video City in South Anchorage someone must’ve rented it and freaked out seeing technically a naked girl in a kids cartoon

My Mom was a big fan of animation, we rented that all the time. I always thought the story was a little hard to follow. But then it came to DVD in the 2000’s with a new dub and it was an entirely different movie!