What are some qualities that make a cartoon based on a video game successful?
The quality that makes a cartoon based on a video game successful is having enough character to be able to sustain a plot for several episodes; being able to take enough out of a game in order to create enough of something that will last several seasons. You have a lot of video games that are epic. There are Final Fantasy games that are hours and hours and hours, then you have a game that is three or four, eight or ten hours. How do you make an entire season, or two or three, out of that? The best example is probably Pokemon. It was a TV show first in the US, but it was a game first in Japan. So, a lot of the success in the United States was tied to the television show, and it was probably the most successful one.