Their second game, Namco High, was a Japanese-style visual novel. The Bravoman mobile app to put it lightly was not very good, and add to that a freemium “pay to play” model which is never a fan-pleaser even for a good game. They did finally come out with some minor games near the end of 2013, but I felt neither of them was very well thought out. I guess that is the danger of being the subsidiary of a large company like Bandai with near unlimited resources.īesides that they didn’t seemed to have a monetization plan until very recently. It also always felt like they were following some pre-made guide to how a company grows, constantly moving on to bigger things despite not yet really succeeding at the smaller things. None of which seemed to promote what the company actually did – make webcomics.
#Bravoman show shifty look free#
Even though they were just starting out, they set up enormous booths at conventions with live music, arcade machines, free t-shirts etc.
In my opinion they spent far too much money and effort trying to SEEM successful rather than working to actually BE successful. Looking at why Shiftylook failed though, there are a lot of reasons. UDON’s official statement as to ShiftyLook’s closure is (perhaps intentionally) vague, but Matt Moylan, who wrote both the Bravoman comic strip and animated series, gave a very critical analysis of why he think the project failed to British comics fansite Bleeding Cool:
#Bravoman show shifty look series#
I hope to showcase some of these before they’re gone for good, but some of the highlights which I recommend you check out are Galaga: The Movie: The Comic, a goofy take on the space shooter featuring two girls and the awesomest jingo-bombastic United States President in fictional history written by Ryan North ( Dinosaur Comics, Adventure Time) which was named one of the best comics in any medium of 2013 by website Comics Alliance Wonder Momo, a fun take on magical girl/sentai tropes which is far more entertaining than the recent run-of-the-mill anime adaptation ShiftyLook launched Mappy, a very funny and surreal animated series which seems to take the best quirks and dry wit of an Adult Swim series and Homestar Runner and blends them into the workaday saga of a disgraced policeman in an office and his questionable boss and Bravoman, arguably the site’s signature attraction and both a fantastic webcomic and cartoon with lots of fourth-wall humor and Warner Bros.-esque insanity (and whose animated incarnation features such veteran voice actors as Rob Paulsen and Dee Bradley Baker). Unfortunately, it seems that if I cover it, it will have to be a postmortem: it was officially announced today that the site will cease producing original content as of March 20, with the website closing for good in September.įounded in 2011, ShiftyLook was a website which featured original content based on some of the lesser-known characters from Namco’s vast library of quirky video games. I’ve wanted to write about ShiftyLook, the comic and cartoon initiative from Bandai Namco Games* and UDON Entertainment, for a while now. Alphaman and Bravoman from Bravoman, ShiftyLook's signature comic strip and cartoon.
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