Captain N: The New Adventures (Ohga Shrugs)

Captain N: The New Adventures was an animated television show. It portrays the adventures of characters visiting worlds from popular games for Nintendo systems.

Origins
Captain N: The Game Master was a 1989 cartoon that ran during the golden age of the NES. One of several Nintendo-themed cartoons at the time, it ran for three seasons and was moderately popular.

By the early 2000's, Nintendo was once again in the position of a cartoon producer, with the Pokemon series being one of the longer running anime in history, Kirby of the Stars being a hit in Japan, and Star Fox Adventures proving that the company could feature their less popular brands and profit from them. While speculating as to which Nintendo franchise could be translated to animation, Nintendo of America executives brought up the idea of a successor series to the original Captain N.

Captain N: The New Adventures was an ambitious project for Nintendo. In addition to featuring Nintendo series, Nintendo also signed deals to feature Square, Enix, Capcom, and Hudson Soft franchises. A new animation studio was set up by Nintendo of America for the sole purpose of making the series.

Captain N: The New Adventures would be first aired in 2004, as part of a new block of Nintendo-related programming on Cartoon Network. The show aired alongside episodes of Pokemon, Kirby of the Stars, and Star Fox Adventures.

Premise and Plot
The story of Captain N: The New Adventures has no relation to the original series. It features Will Alexander, a normal teenage boy from a world seemingly without video games. However, one day, he is accidentally teleported by a seemingly random hole in space-time, and is transported to the another world. In this world, he discovers that he has entered a realm of many realities overlapping, called the "Nintendoverse."

Over the course of the show, Will would first look for a way to get home, but ultimately end up fighting alongside newfound allies to fight an evil force known as "Discord".

Reception
Captain N: The New Adventures would run for three seasons, with a total of 39 episodes. The show was well received by critics, who considered it beyond the normal licensed fare, but the show was ultimately cancelled as Nintendo ended their exclusivity deal with Cartoon Network. Ultimately, Captain N: The New Adventures was a casualty of Nintendo attempting to reduce their "children-only" image, despite the show's occasionally serious material.