9:55 the detail on this scene is on the 7 on the end of the value, because on Pikmin 2, when you are exploring underground areas you can use dead creatures to extract money and the Bulborb's value is 7 pokos (coins) in the actually game, this brings smile to my face!

The white Pikmin practically cursing out the others has to be one of my favorite parts lol

olimars frantic whistling at 9:28 to try and get the pikmin out of danger is one of the most relatable things in this short movie

With the success of the Super Mario Bros movie, I really, really hope that Pikmin will be made into a feature length film. They could be the more charming version of the minions in a way. And if Nintendo sticks with Illumination, they would have experience animating little creatures that speak gibberish and get into antics with one another.

White pikmin: fly away Olimar: oh no, anyways

Pixar: we make the best 3D animations Nintendo: are you sure about that

I'd pay a premium for a Pikmin movie. Just an hour of this would be amazing.

Love the detail of the frantic whistling as the backho collapses. Nearly every pikmin player has had that moment

Nintendo: “All of our content is kid friendly!” Also pikmin: *Brutally tear off the flesh of a bulborb*

Me: “am I really watching a kids show right now?” *pikmin gets brutally chomped to death*

i've never had this feeling of protecting pikmin at all cost so bad, they're just too adorable

The reason its price is 10000000000 and 7 coins is because the crane itself is 10000000000, but in the game a bulblorb (mushroom monster) is worth 7 coins. Nice little detail.

2:05 White Pikmin: gets sent into the stratosphere Olimar: Okay, let’s just ignore that.

Olimar be here like: “Oh she passed away?” “Awww” “Ohhh” “Alright”

This a great animated short, but I didn't expect them to have several brutal Pikmin deaths in it! I know it's part of the game, but seeing each of the Pikmin's individual personality in an animated short makes the deaths that much more shocking! (literally in one of the deaths)

I am shocked Nintendo never tried to make this a 3D animated series. I think the children would love it and us long time Pikmin fans who have kids.

i would absolutely love a tv series like this. it doesnt even have to be long. the more good pikmin content the better

There’s gore, death, accidental homicide, pillaging of endangered species and drug use all in this one, 12 minutes Nintendo video

This is the funniest pikmin short by far. White pikmin goes on a rampage, dust Mario pikmin, bulborb stubs it’s toe(s), and the expressions on the pikmin are just so cute and hilarious

2:00 this whole white pikmin getting mad and then being launch nearly ended me. I cant be laughing this loud at work 🤣🤣

A cool fun fact about these shorts is that Miyamoto storyboarded them using Flipnote Studios

White Pikmin launches into air Olimar: Oh no... *Anyway*

Man if Nintendo was smart they would have put this short in front of the Mario movie

I love the rapid whistle to call up back in an emergency. Very accurate

Lol Imagine paying for short films This post was made by switch era gang

I don’t want to imagine what the corpse looked like .__.

I love how with the censoring of the bulborb it’s implied that the pikmin did something so gruesome that it had to be bleeped out

There are a total of 4 onscreen deaths in this film, 3 being Pikmin, and 1 Bulborb. Two blue Pikmin are killed, 1 via electrocution, the other by predation from the Bulborb, as same with the red Pikmin. The White Pikmin is fine, as its shown that Pikmin don't take fall damage, nor do they do in-game, but in this case, due to their unique petal parachute ability. So no, I won't be counting that. However, the number of Pikmin appear to be cut short by the end, suggesting that a large majority were lost during the collapse of the machinery. If I assume right, additionally, the Fiery Blowhog was situated right underneath the crane, and the yellow Pikmin in that electrified formation deep within the machine. Because of the lack of distance of Olimar's whistle, and the Fiery Blow Hog being *right underneath* the crane and in a weakened state, they can be counted as assumed casualties, adding an additional 25 deaths, or 29 so far. Though I'm not dedicated enough to count each and every Pikmin, (although I might in the future), we can easily see from a glance that there are WAY more than the standard cap of 100 Pikmin working on this sight. More like a few hundred, but not a thousand. By the end of the film, there are 8 Pikmin standing around the deceased Bulborb, and another 22 standing with Olimar. So 30 in total. If my assumption is correct, then HUNDREDS OF PIKMIN WERE LOST. Good lord, Olimar lost a whole playthroughs worth of Pikmin in a single incident! That machine probably flattened the poor things. You got that many Pokos, sure, but at the cost of decimating like 75% percent, if not more of the Pikmin population that he cultivated.

When Olimar opened his eyes, I felt that fear on a spiritual level

9:32 The fact that they had to censor that scares me.

9:29 the constant whistle blows is the truest part of this entire short

1:54 As the white pikmin, I took that personally

i love how accurately they portray the game experience. so many pikmin die by doing something stupid without being told. no blue dont touch that *dead* no white stay there *dead* yellow get out of there *dead* run for your life red *dead*

Bulborbs are Handsized, they would be perfect for petting if they existed.

These shorts gave me a greater appreciation for the Pikmin, in the games they just seem really lifeless but here they have so much personality

I still really love how they incorporated the in game sound track to this animation, it's so cool knowing how certain songs are used in game and seeing them used the same way here

I would kill for a Nintendo animated series that has little shorts like these for Pikmin and other franchises.

"NOTE: No real Pikmin were harmed during the filming of these movies." ... Except for that Bulborb, it's 100% dead.

The fact that he had more then 100 out is so intense

I remember watching These a few years back. Now that I’ve finally gotten the chance to play Pikmin I enjoy these more.

My personal headcanon is that pikmin souls move on from one host to another since their lives are so expendable. I also have it as a coping mechanism for whenever they die

Olimar spamming the whistle at 9:27 is the most relatable thing as a pikmin player.

I want pikmin animated cartoon NOW!!!!!!

7:59 this gives me joy when I’m stressed

4:16 anybody realize that the red pikmin that ended up holding the white pikmin yelled “no” Also pay attention to the red that’s on the pile through the entire scene, he just starts laughing, and that’s a detail I doubt many people noticed and that comes to show how much the animators cared about this, also throughout all the shorts you can find MANY background or non noticed expressions or detail that barely any people noticed, wow they really did care

This is like looney tunes but people die when they are killed. I NEED MORE OF THIS

I’ve watched this about a hundred times. They should make another one of these but with the new pikmin types

This short is proof of why I think Pikmin would absolutely work as Nintendo and Illumination's next animated movie.

Love how they all go “ BEAT HIS A**” towards the end lmao.

I kinda hope bulborbs can eat while running in spicy burrito mode now

Wish they made more of these for Pikmin 4, 3 was not enough

The bulborb stubbing its toe, my reaction: relatable

The Pikmin language consists of -ne -ow -hu -na -wa -no -pikuhmen -AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA -brrrrrr -woomy -**death noises** -illustrations

Rest In Peace to the hundreds of yellows powering the machine Edit: I should clarify that I’m talking about them being crushed by the machine when it fell apart, I’m aware of them being immune to electricity

Isn’t weird how the blue pikmin suffer more than the others?

I love the fact that they’ve given the Bulborb it’s own personality too

10:03 This should have been one of Olimar's victory poses in Smash tbh...

2:00 White Pikmin: **Gets shot into the stratosphere** Olimar: Oh no! Anyway...

you have to wonder how regularly hocotate freight sends olimar back to earth to do stuff like this

These characters are so cute! What a creative storyline as well. And the Super Mario part was perfect. I hope they make a full movie of these characters!

jeez that part where the pikmins are brutally tearing down the flesh of that animal and they even had to censor it is so disturbing

It's incredible how much personality they managed to express in a short with no dialogue at all.

Ok I’m now convinced. We need a Pikmin movie

I love the moment where the pikmin comes out as Mario

Oh my god the Mario reference in Pikmin short is so cute!

6:33 as someone who almost broke their pinky toe by stubbing it against a wall while WALKING SLOWLY I can relate to this Bulborb on a spiritual level

that mario joke in those pipes made me laugh

4:48 “wiieeeeee!!! :D”

2:30 RIP random blue Pikmin, died for our entertainment

9:29 if you havent used the whistle like that in a Pikmin game, you aren't a true Pikmin fan.

We need more of this. If Shigeru Miyamoto has more time can he make more of these?

2 years later, mud is now an actual hazard

2:01 I no longer see why it is so hard to escape the planet if they can just get some purple pikmin to launch them out of the atmosphere. If olimar or the koppaites ever get stranded on the planet again, they should try this strategy to save time.

This is why you can't hate the Pikmin. This short is just an overload of adorable.

We need more Pikmin animations, they are so good

I wish this played before the Mario Movie...

This feels like the most accurate representation of the game out of the three shorts... which is bad, because the shorts did such a good job at giving the Pikmin personality it's all the more horrific when they suddenly die.

White pikmin gets launched into orbit. Olimar: Well, that happened.

“It’s just a prank bro” The prank: 4:12

7:49 Why was this so sad😭

7:40 Can we just talk about how BRUTAL that death was? Poor red pikmin wasn't dead until its stem was spat out! He felt each and every bite of the bulborb that vored it!!!

3:38 That red Pikmin's tiny laugh gives me life.

They straight up mutilated that bulborb. Damn I never knew pikmin were this wild 9:31

you gotta just love the idea of that yellow pikmin seeing the golden screw and thinking "wait olimar would love that!"

10:02 Should SERIOUSLY be a victory animation for Olimar in Smash Bros.

Now THIS is what we need during covid.

the fact that the idea of an excavator becoming a level in pikmin HASN'T been done after this is a crime

2:52 I Love The Fact That Red Pikmin Make An SMB Reference

2:52 That Super Mario reference was the best!!

5:44 This gag feels so Tom and Jerry-like. Adore it. More please! Even with just the little noises and squeaks they make, its still so lively and full of emotion. They should make like... a 12 episode series of this on a web streaming service. If kids will watch a CG animated series about Larva, this'll probably be appealing too.

Now that Dynamo Pictures has become Nintendo Pictures, I hope we get more animation projects like these in the future.

Remember when we had to pay for these shorts to see them in our 3DS and Wii U? Good times.

Me who's never played any of these: Aww those little guys are soo cute! Little guys: CASUALLY DIE

This makes me want a movie😂 It’s taken me so long to appreciate Pikmin, but I finally do

Fun fact: the total value of the crane in this short (ten billion pokos + seven from the red Bulborb) is enough monetary value to beat Pikmin 2 1 million times

Game:You can only have 100 pikmin in the field. Short: Game: Wait thats illegal

This got a lot darker than I expected

OSHA would have a field day. Olimar is just racking up so many violations.

Yellow pikmin was so terrified he’s mouth opened

This honestly feels like a new Pikmin tv show. They should do that soon.