Nintendo Announces 'Hello! Pikmin' Animated Shorts
Nintendo is turning Pikmin into a regular animated series, starting November 1.
Nintendo is turning Pikmin into a regular animated series. In a Pikmin Day Direct released on October 31, Shigeru Miyamoto announced ‘Hello! Pikmin’, a new run of animated shorts from Nintendo Pictures, the company’s in-house animation studio. Miyamoto also named November 1 the official Pikmin Day, saying the date was picked because 11.1 looks like red, yellow and blue Pikmin standing side by side.
The Direct previewed a short in which a red Pikmin sneaks up on a seemingly sleeping toad to grab an old baseball, only to find the toad awake and hungry. According to Famitsu, the first ‘Hello! Pikmin’ short arrives November 1, a second follows later in November, and new shorts come monthly from December through the free Nintendo Today app and other channels.
Nintendo Pictures has made Pikmin animation before, including the short ‘Close to You’ last October, and Miyamoto’s team released three Pikmin shorts back in 2014. The Direct also included updates for Pikmin 4 on Nintendo Switch 2 and for Pikmin Bloom on mobile.
