Kid Icarus Gets Animated!

Nintendo has partnered with renowned Japanese animation studios to celebrate Kid Icarus by making Kid Icarus animated films. Each mini-series (3 in total) will be released exclusively on the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo video. The first anime series, Thanatos Rising, comes from Production I.G. (Known for Ghost in the Shell 1 and 2 and Momo e no Tegami). It will be directed by Junichi Fujisaku (Blood) and feature Pit going up against one of Medusa’s minions. The second and third short will be done by Studio 4o C and Shaft Inc. respectively.

The first part of the Thanatos Rising is available now. You won’t be able to download it from Nintendo Eshop though. For some reason you have to turn on Spot Pass and let Nintendo automatically download it for you (why you can’t just get it from the video section in the store is beyond me). Checking out the first short, it looks like a cinematic from the game…in 3D of course. Not bad for a free content. Part 2 and 3 are up as well. So far, no word on when the other films will be released. If you have Spot Pass on, you should be alerted when they’re added though.

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