#mighty nein animated

[mayapapaya33]

I hope in the animated mighty nein show they keep Nott repeatedly endangering/ killing Caduseus with her recklessness with the exploding arrows (or at least have the one big moment). I also hope they do a bit more with it in the show, like some sort of mild confrontation about her behavior. Idk, Caduceus is so kind, maybe there could be slightly more emphasis on it considering she LITERALLY KILLED HIM lmfao. (C2 E55 4:03:40)

Maybe one of the others could be like wtf? You killed Caduceus! holy shit! And then the two of them could have a nice chat like they did when Taliesin got back (I so wish he hadn't been absent that next episode, but it is what it is). Percy got punched in the face by Vax for forgetting to check for traps, which accidentally killed Vex, which they very much amped up for the animation into him coaxing her into being reckless. Veth ACTIVELY exploded Caduceus to death because she wasn't paying attention to where she aimed or collateral damage radius to her weapon! They've gotta play with that!

It can also set up a pattern of recklessness that pays off in the fact that she very much got herself killed fucking around dismantling deadly traps. I don't remember if she was drunk or nott; C2 E83 (3:19:15) AND how later on her and Jester being loud and reckless endangered her both their friends and families and got Veth's son killed. I'm not still salty about C2 E129 no siree, I'm not still irritated that Veth and Jester couldn't sit still for 10 fucking minutes to let Caleb cast the dome, nope, not me lmfao. (Speaking of life lessons I hope they emphasize a little harder in the animated show, Marion and Yeza are waaaaaay too nice hahaha. Also they didn't really know it was 100% Jester and Veth's fault but I digress). Combined with her arc about alcoholism and self worth I can see a really great storyline. Those are very strong, interesting themes to write about.

Maybe she goes on a mini bender out of guilt for hurting Caduceus after or something, or just some actual conversations between the characters about it, anything really to have it in the narrative. That death is when he gets his first in campaign major vision from the Wildmother as well, so that would be very interesting to see. Especially if they manage to preserve the blink and you miss it information buried in a beautiful conversation with his sister later on that he used to eat lilies (which are poisonous plants irl) to try to talk to the Wildmother when he was all alone. Campaign 2, Episode 130 (2:37:32) The subtle tragedy of his loneliness and isolated devotion are so slept on sometimes so I really hope it's addressed more.

They said they were changing things; that's one of the things I hope gets fleshed out a bit more. Taliesin really played support for most of C2 and he did it wonderfully, but I hope they take the opportunity to bring some of his more subtle character journey to the forefront for the show.

[luckthebard]

I say this as a huge Caleb fan - one of the things I hope the M9 animated show doesn’t tone down is how prickly and shady and unlikable he is at the start of the story.

In fact, ramp it up even! There are no players who are actual friends to get in the way of giving us abrasive and off-putting Caleb!

[luminousstardust]

MIGHTY NEIN FANS HOW ARE WE FEELING!!!!!!!!

[linootte]

I started lineart two times, hated it and then said fuck it and cleaned the sketch. As Nature intended.

The new official M9 animatic made me so happy!!

[ruvi-muffin]

[arden-wings]

SHOUT OUT TO MY MUTUAL WHO KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT CR FOR SHOWING THIS TO ME. LOGO DROP CHAT I REPEAT LOGO DROP!!!!

[retrokid616]

[patopq]

hey we desperately need to decide on how we're calling The Mighty Nein Animated Show for short

taking into account that the show will probably be called "THE mighty nein" left my opinions in the tags

[writeroffantasy03]

A snippet of animation for the new Mighty Nein series was previewed and I need everyone to remember that Fjord used his real voice in front of Jester before they ran into Beauregard. Jester mentions in-game how Fjord was speaking differently. (Just pointing this out for those confused or disappointed he wasn’t using his texblade voice.)

[mayapapaya33]

I suppose the most important, burning animation question is this:

How progressively fucked up are they going to make Sprinkle look as time goes by in the show. Because let's be real, that poor weasel was kept alive by the power of Artagan and plot armor because he was just a pet and didn't go into combat (where he could then get hurt/ die fair and square like Trinket). So he was always "hiding in Jester's armor" lol.

Now here's the dilemma I think they're going to run across. The "Sprinkle longing for death" gag is one of the funniest things ever, but it is highly dependent on Travis and the rest giving voice to Sprinkle's woes as meta commentary. Without that, in a visual medium, unless they strike the balance just right, I think visual animal abuse just isn't that funny. In fact, I think done poorly it could very quickly turn the audience against Jester. Objectively, if you look at the situation stripped of comedy, Jester is a neglectful, abusive pet owner and should feel bad. But obviously that's missing some of the context of the show. And I think that somewhat intangible context is going to be difficult to translate to a visual medium. They could maybe play into the "are we SURE Sprinkle isn't undead? Gag with Fjord asking Caduceus to just double check or something. They could try to translate some bits of the meta into the character's mouths.

I think there's a good chance they'll skip it altogether and just have her be competent at pet care which is really too bad considering a good chunk of the audience already infantilizes Jester and ignores all of her flaws. Keeping one of the funny yet terrible things she did as a running gag would be good. And it's just so funny. Poor Sprinkle.

[hiems-incaelo]

now that I've had two years to think on it (and 3 lovm seasons to reflect on): here's some mighty nein moments that I would love to see in m9 animated that I think will actually have a shot at making it in:

- Caleb's and Fjord's conflict over the scroll in the High Richter Heist (Fjord holding a sword at Caleb's neck), or something adjacent, likely put in in a different fight scene

- Fjord, Jester and Yasha being kidnapped

- Caduceus's creepy eye-butterfly dream the night before the fab 4 arrive at the grove

- Beau's underground brawlery backstory scenes

- Yasha's scream at Molly's grave (still)

- Finding the beacon for the first time

- Walking through the worm tunnel

- Avantika and Fjord..

- Caleb holding up the beacon in the Bright Queen's court

- Cupcake scene (obviously)

- The King's Cage (Beau and Fjord barely making it out, Jester screaming for Yasha)

- Fjord throwing the Falchion into the lava, and then gaining the Star Razor

- Nott to Veth transformation scene

- Fjord's last stand on the ship + being killed (Dark Waters ep)

- Ruby performance

- Jester's giant lollypop

[thefandomlifechoseme]

every so often I remember that the Mighty Nein show is coming out in all it's animated dumbassary, and I go mildly insane

and every so often I remember it's coming out in 2025, and I go mildly insane but in a less fun way

[shorthaltsjester]

have been thinking about the recent interview about the mighty nein animated series where it was mentioned that the series as a whole would be more of a departure and that vox machina s3 is a similar change versus the more canon retelling they started with in s1 and i’ve seen some negative reactions to it but honestly i’m Psyched to hear that is a change they’ve committed to in their writing and storytelling for the animated series because like. we have the campaigns. and for me the moments in the animation that have fallen the most flat or haven’t felt as fulfilling is when the show has tried to capture the Same Thing as the campaign without having the hundreds of hours of context that supported the moment in the campaign that made it Significant. and it is much much more exciting for me to have a changed story that is changed because it is now. a episodic television show and not a recording of actors playing dnd. like . yes actually Please change the storylines to be storylines and not the whims of game players. yes actually please make a good story in the medium it’s being told in.

[orym-blossoms]

Can we please stop asking if Sam will not voice Veth/Nott in M9 Animated instead of a Female Voice Actor? It's unimaginative at best and transphobic/bioessentialist at worst. Literally the only reason why he might not is if he no longer physically can because of his cancer treatment/recovery, or some other unavoidable such reason.

She is *his character*, he is a talented voice actor with a personal connection to her backstory and motivations. This shouldn't even be a thing.

[confuse-the-masses]

yes, the video's only been up for 4, sue me

the link for anyone who wants it

[tamtamandtim]

With the Mighty Nein animated series being in the works, there’s one thing I’m really hoping for and I don’t know if it’ll happen.

I want the little details of Caleb casting spells to be there, like how Liam describes the components and how he uses them. I would love it if we just had a zoomed in shot of him grabbing stuff out of his pouch and smooshing it together and then BOOM ✨magic✨

Because I swear Liam does it almost every time while everyone else is just like ‘imma cast this at this level’ so it would be so funny if everyone else casting spells was (unless it was a big moment) to just be BAM ✨magic✨