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Nintendo sure loves Isabelle
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MannyToons
Member
She's alright. I don't really acknowledge her existence when I'm not putting down public works projects, to be honest.
Calamari41
41 > 38
Bro, Isabelle is here to stay. Expect her to headline every Animal Crossing game going forward. In one fell swoop she has supplanted Tom Nook, K.K. Slider, and Kapp'n as the face of the game.
nckillthegrimace
Member
I want a game where Isabelle and fat Pikachu team up to solve crime.
Gonzo The Great
Banned
And this is precisely why I no longer like Isabelle anymore. Nintendo is milking her because they know that she has... broad appeal. Pop-O-Matic is right, I'm afraid.
Something to add to the OP:
She has a hat in the StreetPass Mii Plaza DLC.
That's horrible :c
AcademicSaucer
Member
Dafuq
MannyToons
Member
This is one of the reasons why I'm beginning to not even like her anymore. People are way too creepy with their liking for the character, and these gross ass humanoid portrayals of her in fanart... fuck that.
Something to add to the OP:
She has a hat in the StreetPass Mii Plaza DLC.
Someone call PETA.
POWERSPHERE
Member
All these imaginary character avatars are leveraged to sell products and merchandise by printing, modeling and making polygonal skins. If it makes money it will exist.
SerTapTap
Member
And this is precisely why I no longer like Isabelle anymore. Nintendo is milking her because they know that she has... broad appeal. Pop-O-Matic is right, I'm afraid.
You can search anything and "rule 34" is one of the top results. I end up finding a lot of that when searching pretty innocuous pokemon (not even stuff like lopunny and gardevoir). Never EVER click Images when you mean Web.
Also, not that all fanbases don't have weirdos, but uh. The Wii U is the only console I've had greet me with Sonic OCs and Smash 4 shipping art on the main menu. Urg.
balladofwindfishes
Member
And this is precisely why I no longer like Isabelle anymore. Nintendo is milking her because they know that she has... broad appeal. Pop-O-Matic is right, I'm afraid.
Have you Googled Samus in awhile? Or Peach. Or Zelda. Or any female character Nintendo has ever created and most Pokemon?
He's in smash bros.
Take that as you will.
You wanna know who isn't in smash
Mewtwo.
Or any popular cartoon character regardless of gender?
SerTapTap
Member
The only example I can think of that might be them pushing creepy is Mega Gardevoir and Mega Lopunny (and that's probably Gamefreak's prerogative not Nintendo). There's no way those are coincidences. Isabelle, that's just because she's cute.
PirateKing
Junior Member
I find it really ugly.
Dude. What is the music in that 3DS fashion trailer.
I need this music to be the soundtrack of my life genuinely.
New song by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.. Check out some of her other tunes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teMdjJ3w9iM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzC4hFK5P3g
Gonzo The Great
Banned
"THIS HAPPENS TO EVERY FEMALE CHARACTER" is not a valid excuse. Isabelle rule 34 is extremely popular on Tumblr, so I'm not surprised that Nintendo has been trying to shoehorn her into everything.
That Mario Kart thing is indeed a travesty.
Animal Crossing is Tom Nook, Ressetti, K.K. Slider. I get why the first two might not be universally loved, but K.K is in a different league.
The whole thing is awful, Isabelle's obsession with you as a mayor can become creepy and its creepy for me people who like that obsession as well.
These two ideas have no logical connection to each other, it's entirely conjecture. If "ratio of porn" searches influenced nintendo's decisions, we'd be seeing Tiny Kong "forced" into every game.
I never played Animal Crossing, I know who KK Slider is but I wouldn't recognize him, but I recognize Isabelle thanks to all the fan art, cartoons, people with Isabelle avatars and so on. So no, it's not a travesty - Isabelle's fame and appeal transcends Animal Crossing, making her far more suitable for crossovers and merchandise.
ultratruman
Banned
Isabelle on the come up!
This is a chicken/egg thing, do you recognize more Isabelle because she was popular and Nintendo picked on that and decided to use her? Or was she pushed by Nintendo from the beginning as the new AC face, making her popular from the start? I think is the latter.
Can confirm. Just checked nearest "fan-art" sites, Isabelle aka Shizue (?) is peanuts compared to fan favorites like Trainer or Rosalina. Both characters don't seem to get appearance boost by Nintendo.
What? I just visited that site for science.
SerTapTap
Member
I was going to get ACNL day one regardless and I've definitely seen way more isabelle after release.
Know what's funny/sad, OTs for "lol Compile Heart" game threads: quite clean. Posts about Nintendo characters? borderline NSFW fanart threads. Persona? You better believe that's a waifu thread.
I think enough time has passed from New Leaf where Isabelle's popularity is authentic. You can only "force" a character to be popular for so long before people lose interest.
As an example, look at the difference between Lucario and Zoroark. After Lucario became a breakaway mascot hit, they tried to poise Zoroark as one, too, but no one liked it, so even though it got a movie, we still have Lucario as one of the faces of pokemon.
Nook and Slider had years of exposure that never reached the commercial success with merchandise and appeal that Isabelle has in a much shorter time.
Your sacrifice is noble. I think what happens is that a LARGE chunk of Isabelles fanbase are young women and children who just don't spend much time searching for images on the internet, which skews the results towards the more "passionate" area of her fanbase. I could be wrong, but I think it's more reasonable than saying Porn influences Nintendo's marketing decisions, or else the Isabelle merch we'd see would, uh, reflect that. *SHUDDER*
Animal Crossing: Freshly Chosen Isabelle Thorny Adventure.^_^
Out of all your conspiracy theories about Nintendo, this has to be the most insane.
A company that killed its messaging program due to creeps sending notes to underaged girls is actively promoting a character because of her rule 34 popularity.
You don't understand, if you like the character you'll become one of them.
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
Interestingly you mention Rosalina in your post, I think the spanish names for Isabelle and Rosalina are better (although Isabelle is cute and ad makes sense in english, so that good, Rosalina is so stupid...)
Canela is awesome becuase its a pun of can (another wordfor dog apart of perro in spanish) and her personality is sweet like Cinnamon (Canela). Canela is also a typical spanish name for female dogs.
Estela is better than Rosalina because Rosalina seems to be taken directly from a random character in a shitty south american soap opera. She is not wearing any pink or red either (there are blue roses, but thats not the first thing you think when you say her name). In the other hand Estela means star in latin and its perfect for her.
Rosetta is also stupid, and the only thing that reminds me hearing that is the rosetta stone, not a space princess.
Treehouse are sually amazing at localising, but seems Nintendo Iberica knows how to localise names for female characters better lol
Ding Ding Ding.
Canela is awesome becuase its a pun of can (another wordfor dog apart of perro in spanish) and her personality is sweet like Cinnamon (Canela). Canela is also a typical spanish name for female dogs.
Estela is better than Rosalina because Rosalina seems to be taken directly from a random character in a shitty south american soap opera. She is not wearing any pink or red either (there are blue roses, but thats not the first thing you think when you say her name). In the other hand Estela means star in latin and its perfect for her.
Rosetta is also stupid, and the only thing that reminds me hearing that is the rosetta stone, not a space princess.
Treehouse are sually amazing at localising, but seems Nintendo Iberica knows how to localise names for female characters better lol
Ding Ding Ding.
Ultimadrago
Member
Ctrl+F BGBW
SerTapTap
Member
It's the whole "I'm not one of THEM, man!" mentality
Off-Kilter
Banned
totes adorbs
But tumblr is popular with the kids and Nintendo is desperate!Out of all your conspiracy theories about Nintendo, this has to be the most insane.
A company that killed its messaging program due to creeps sending notes to underaged girls is actively promoting a character because of her rule 34 popularity.
Isabelle is freaking adorable and haters can hate all they want but they are wrong.
pinkurocket
Member
"Excuse me... there seems to be an inconsistency with your passport stating you're male?"
"Isabel plz"
Gonzo The Great
Banned
They're actively promoting the character because she is popular. Unfortunately, a large chunk of her popularity is based around sexually explicit fan art. ¯\_(ツOut of all your conspiracy theories about Nintendo, this has to be the most insane.
A company that killed its messaging program due to creeps sending notes to underaged girls is actively promoting a character because of her rule 34 popularity.
_/¯Same. Just about every fandom has the crazies if you look hard enough. It's really not hard to tune them out.
I would play the shit out of that.