With tropes as, err.. 'timeless' as the 16-bit games that inspired it, Studio Joho's Dan the Man animation -- its moral seemingly somewhere along the lines of 'don't waste your extra life' -- shows us what fate awaits the hero after the boss has been defeated and the princess is rescued. [via David Surman]
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11:22 am Thu
Apr 15, 2010
99 16-bit problems: Studio Joho animation on the post-princess epilogue
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