Pikachu and Chopper look better. Hamtaro looks so much worse, art regression.
That Jinbanyan would be a joke.
>>24589917There wasn't really backlash. They just suddenly stopped airing it, which is weird because right before it was canned they even made a Halloween episode just for the US which aired there at least a year before Japan.
That redesign is also from more like 2008.
>>24590383The original mangaka and the anime changed styles some over time. Eventually you ended up with that.
>>24591317And an HD re-airing of the first hundred episodes or so. And three Nintendo-made adventure games, one Nintendo-made virtual pet type thing, and two edutainment games no one cares about.
