Or in better terms, why if any series deserves to an anime adaptation, it's the WarioWare one!
Basically:
There have been 171 different Mario games as of this point in time. Yeah, the total includes the Wario Land, WarioWare, Yoshi and Donkey Kong series, but let's mostly include it anyway.
If you adapted them on a per game per episode basis and ran them to a Japanese anime TV schedule (about 52 episodes), you'd take 3 and a half years just to get through the games that already exist, and then waste another two adapting the stuff released in the meantime.
And if you assumed more episodes for reasonability (say, about 150 per game, ala the Pokemon anime) you would get a massive 25,560 episodes worth of content. This is about twice as many episodes as the longest ever running TV show, and about 4 or 5 times as many as the longest running anime series on television.
Oh, and it'd take you 70 years to air them daily. Or about 500 to air them weekly.
What's more, even adapting just this year's Mario games would take you three years.
Now, contrast this to a WarioWare adaptation. You wouldn't need to stick close to the games, so you could make episodes at a reasonable pace. And even if you did, there are few enough unique games you'd have a comfortable time keeping up with each new game in the series.
Interesting isn't it?
Basically:
There have been 171 different Mario games as of this point in time. Yeah, the total includes the Wario Land, WarioWare, Yoshi and Donkey Kong series, but let's mostly include it anyway.
If you adapted them on a per game per episode basis and ran them to a Japanese anime TV schedule (about 52 episodes), you'd take 3 and a half years just to get through the games that already exist, and then waste another two adapting the stuff released in the meantime.
And if you assumed more episodes for reasonability (say, about 150 per game, ala the Pokemon anime) you would get a massive 25,560 episodes worth of content. This is about twice as many episodes as the longest ever running TV show, and about 4 or 5 times as many as the longest running anime series on television.
Oh, and it'd take you 70 years to air them daily. Or about 500 to air them weekly.
What's more, even adapting just this year's Mario games would take you three years.
Now, contrast this to a WarioWare adaptation. You wouldn't need to stick close to the games, so you could make episodes at a reasonable pace. And even if you did, there are few enough unique games you'd have a comfortable time keeping up with each new game in the series.
Interesting isn't it?
