Nintendo Animation (Japan)

Background: Nintendo Animation (任天堂アニメーション, Nintendō Animēshon) is a Japanese animated studio formed in 1984 by Shigeru Miyamoto (best known for creating Mario characters) and was capable of making animations based on Nintendo properties of video games.

1st Logo

(1985 - 1991)

Nickname: "Nintendo!", "Rainbow-colored Nintendo logo"

Logo: In a grey background, we see an N coming up from a surface. A bright flash happened and the N simply turns into a text reading "Nintendo". Then the background turns black as the Nintendo text changes several colors of the rainbow. The white "Animations" text in the Bubbleboddy font appear underneath it.

Variants:

In The Pixies, the N in the logo remains red.

In Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, Captain N: The Game Master, and The Legend of Zelda, the DiC Entertainment logo follows this logo.

A yellow version of the Nintendo text exists in The Pixies episode "Follow That Pixie!".

Cheesy Factor: The whole logo screams in the 80's. The color-changing logo is very fast that it may let you go blind.

Music/Sounds: While the logo forms, there was an orchestra hit playing few notes of the Super Mario Bros. theme tune. On Captain N: The Game Master, Andrew Kavadas (voice actor of Simon Belmont) says "This has been a production of Nintendo Animation."

Availability: Nearly extinct. However, it can be found on a Blu-ray release of The Pixies: Season 1.

Scare Factor: Low because of the N rising up from the surface. Of course, it's nothing compared to the next logo below!

2nd Logo

(1991 - 1996)

Nickname: "Mario's Face", "Mario's Face from the Underworld", "That's Mario to you, gentlemen!", "Nightmare at Mario's", "Killer Mario's Face"

Logo: In a black background, we see Mario's face turning slowly toward us. After the face faces the camera, the white Nintendo logo in 3D appeared underneath him along with the red "Animations" text.

Trivia: Mario's face is later used forMario Teaches Typinggames.

Variants:

In The Pixies episode "It's Kasumi's Birthday!", Mario's face is black and his eyes are red instead of white. In the Japanese version of the episode, Mario's eyes are also crossed.

In the final episode of Super Mario World ("Mama Luigi"), Luigi's face replaces Mario's face.

In The Legend of Zelda, Link's face replaces Mario's face.

On the final season of Captain N: The Game Master, Kevin Keene replaces Mario.

In Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island animated series, Yoshi's face is seen with Mario's face.

In the 1995 anime series The New Adventures of Donkey Kong Country 2!, Diddy Kong's face is seen with Mario.

In The Pixies episode "Ginara Visits the Jewelry Store", Mario's face looks sad.

Cheesy Factor: The Mario face doesn't seem to look like the regular Mario at all.

Music/Sounds: In most logos, we hear a creepy moog tune that resemble a slow-down version of the Underground theme from Super Mario Bros. Starting in 1993, we hear Mario saying "Wow!".

Music/Sounds Variants:

In The Pixies episode "It's Kasumi's Birthday!", a distorted boss music from Super Mario Bros. 3 plays along with Mario saying "Game Over!".

Sometimes, Mario's eyes are closed. Some reruns of "It's Kasumi's Birthday!" has the PAL version of the Worldivision Home Video playing instead.

The New Adventures of Donkey Kong Country 2!has Diddy Kong saying "Mario's rolling an another show!", and Mario says "Oh, be quiet!"

In The Pixies episode "Ginara Visits the Jewelry Store", Mario says "This logo don't mind me anymore."

In the Japan-only anime, Triple the F-Zero, a theme tune from F-Zero plays.

In Star Fox, Mario says (in Peppy Hare's voice) "Mission Complete!".

On Captain N: The Game Master, Kevin says "I'm going home!" while "Chillin' on the Corner" by Brian Schmidt plays.

Availability: Was last seen on the first episode of Pixie Master. It was later seen on reruns of The Pixies shown at Seiyu Group stores in November 23, 2017.

Scare Factor: Low to nightmare. Mario's face is kinda creepy to most users, not to mention the music would startle them too. Takes up to NIGHTMARE in The Pixies episode "It's Kasumi's Birthday!" because of his red (and crossed in the Japanese version) eyes. Some people may find Mario's face and his quotes funny, and a fact that the character's face is either seen with or replacing Mario's head lowers a scare factor for some.

3rd Logo

(1996 - 2007)

Nickname: "A Starman on a Nintendo logo"

Logo: In a white background, a Starman powered-up from Super Mario Bros. jumps on a top of the red Nintendo logo. Afterwards, the blue "Animations" text appeared underneath it and lots of Starmen also hops near the logo.

Variants:

In Pixie Master episode "Rusty and Kakuri", Mario is seen chasing the Starman.

When the Mr. Disk/The Diskun Adventures shorts aired on the Japanese TBS channel as stand-alone shorts, all Starmen were replaced with clones of Diskun, a mascot of the Famicom Disk System.

Music/Sounds: The only music that we hear is the Invincibility music from Super Mario Bros..

Music/Sounds Variants:

In Pixie Master episode "Rusty and Kakuri", Mario is heard saying "Come back here!".

In the TBS version of Mr. Disk/The Disk-kun Adventures shorts, the Famicom start-up theme plays instead of the Invincibility music.

On Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Meta Knight says "You've much yet to learn..."

Availability: Was seen in most Nintendo Animation shows at a time. Could be seen on Kirby: Right Back At Ya! (after the Warp Star Productions logo) and the Pokémon animated series (all seasons up to Diamond and Pearl, after the 4Kids logo).

Scare Factor: None at all, because many people finds this logo extremely funny.