- The animation's much better in the second one.
- This feels like an anime opening.
It's so dramatic. It's so over the top.
♪ (dramatic intro) ♪
- (FBE) All right, so today, we're gonna show you
a video that is actually a sequel to another video.
- Oh. - (FBE) A video that we've
shown before on YouTubers React.
- Oh.
- You guys do so much. It literally could be anything.
- (FBE) So, for context, we're actually gonna show you
a small little snippet of the first one
and then show you the sequel.
- I'm ready for this. Let's do it.
Let's start. Let's go.
- Are you ready kids?
- I love SpongeBob.
- Oh, this is-- I believe it's Spongeb--
- What?
- Yes.
- I have seen this. I've absolutely seen this.
- Oh, dang. This is like SpongeBob anime.
- This is an anime intro for SpongeBob SquarePants.
- I never saw this. - I never did, either.
- I've seen this and it's so good.
- This is brilliant.
- Why's he so jiggly?
- Patrick, put on some clothes, man.
- Okay, Sandy.
- This is so bizarre.
- Oh, dang.
- Oh my God.
- This is cool. I would watch this.
Patrick's so jiggly.
- Every time I look down at Patrick's crotch,
there's something different happening.
- Oh my God.
- This is so gruesome, but it's what I wanted
old SpongeBob to be.
- I love that.
- Great stuff, great stuff.
- I just love SpongeBob being like,
(yells)
- Damn, I'm mad I missed the first episode.
All right, well show me the sequel.
I'm ready.
- Oh, [bleep].
- Oh my God.
- Of course, I've seen the sequel.
I'm such a fan.
- Ah, this is more hardcore. I like this one.
- Season two. Let's go.
- (gasps)
- I've never seen SpongeBob so serious.
- Aw, poor Patrick.
- Patrick.
- Oh, damn. Okay Sandy.
- The line art is much cleaner.
- The animation's much better in the second one.
I like it.
- Squidward, you son of a bitch.
You drove SpongeBob to heroin.
- It's so interesting to see two concepts
that are so completely opposite being merged into one.
- Oh no, she lost her hand?
- (gasps)
- Oh.
- Oh my God.
- He's fighting with a spatula.
- Oh no, not the diving squid attack.
- I could watch this fight scene extended for hours.
- Oh my God, the drama. Holy [bleep].
- This feels like an anime opening.
It's so dramatic. It's so over the top.
- Oh, please let this be the ghost of Patrick.
- Oh no. His true form.
He finally achieved it. - SpongeBob has to train.
- Ah.
- He's going super saiyan, boys.
- Oh my God.
- I would watch this. - I would watch this, too.
- Dude, these are so well made. Classic anime intro.
- It's an appropriate sequel to the first one.
I think they really upped everything,
all of the anime tropes.
- Everyone who watched SpongeBob as a kid
and they grew up, they would watch this.
This would be a hit.
- If this became actual seasons, I think people would watch it,
'cause anime is still definitely very loved by people
and so is SpongeBob. Put them together
and I think it could actually do well.
- (FBE) So, that was the second part
of the SpongeBob SquarePants anime by animator Narmak.
- Cool.
- Go, Narmak.
- (FBE) The first video we showed you has garnered
over eleven million views and the second one,
the sequel, in just over a month
has over five million views. - Dang.
- A deserving five million views. - Yeah.
- Give it up for that guy.
- I mean, the animation's great. You deserve it.
It looked like it was tedious work to do.
- (FBE) With so much success around these kind of videos,
do you think that Narmak should keep making
this kind of content? - Oh my God, yes.
- Dude, this guy is killing it. I think he should definitely
keep going.
- Someone needs to just give him money
to make the show. - Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah. I mean, strike while
the iron's hot and give the people want they want.
- Absolutely, yeah. Definitely, people want to see it.
I think he, she, they could get very creative
and start doing anime versions of Disney stuff,
Cartoon Network stuff.
- Narmak, I think you should do whatever you wanna do,
because the worst thing that can happen to you
is you get boxed in to doing something, you get famous
for something you didn't want to do and then
you keep doing that 'cause that's now
your category. Start doing what you love
and if this is what you love, then keep doing it,
'cause you're great. You're a talented guy.
- YouTube changed its algorithm, which made it
harder for animators a few years back,
so I'm surprised to see that it's still thriving
the way it is, but I mean, it's such a good platform
for people to get their stuff out there.
- In 2012, we had the algorithm change.
These days, we're seeing a huge boom in animation
because animators are getting smarter, they're getting quicker,
they're cutting corners where it is necessary
and leaving the fun and interesting elements of animation.
It's really, really exciting, because it means I still
get to do what I love and I get to animate for a living
and people are excited about it and people are getting excited
about these creators and the people behind the animation.
- (FBE) So, a lot of the time, when there's sequels
or second seasons of TV shows, a lot of times they don't
turn out as good as the originals.
A lot of people are saying that this sequel in particular
does live up to the hype that the first one set.
So, as a creator yourself, what do you think
it takes for a video to live up to the standards if it's a sequel
to something like that? - There's that thing they say
in advertising, "Give me the same thing but different."
- You gotta stay motivated. When somebody's really motivated,
then the quality, it stays high.
- You gotta hit on all the things that made
the first one so great, which can be difficult.
Kind of take what's already established and everyone loves
and you shake it up a little bit
and you make them love it again.
- You have to understand the concept statement
behind the whole thing of what was the moral
of the last one and does it connect
with the moral of this one?
- I think he just killed it. I feel like if he tried
to stick with the same winning formula,
it wouldn't have worked, but he was creative with it.
- I think leaving the original open ended and you don't
necessarily have to know what your sequel's gonna be
when you're writing it, but just making sure
that you-- it's not a close-ended thing.
- A sequel has to match and then exceed the stakes
of the original, so in the case
of this SpongeBob trailer, in the original, the stakes
were super high and so was Patrick's bulge
and now in the sequel, it's to the next level.
Friendships destroyed, friends gone.
It's Godfather 2.
- Whatever you create has to stem from
some sort of inspiration, right? And in order for you
to be inspired, you have to be in a certain kind of mindset.
Well, when you wanna make a sequel to something,
you have to go back and follow that recipe
and make it what it was. You have to find
that same inspiration, because artists, your inspiration
changes from month to month and maybe next month,
you wouldn't feel like making that kind of video,
but that one did really well and now you have to make
another one and it's like, what got you excited
about that in the first place? Find that and don't let it go.
- (FBE) So obviously, today we live in an age
with a lot of pop culture reboots. Do you think that this
would be successful if this actually came out as a real
anime series? - Oh, hell yeah.
- Yes, for the first two seasons
and then after that, I think people would get
tired of it.
- I know I'd watch it. The kids that watched
SpongeBob on Nickelodeon are probably old enough
to have their own Netflix accounts and chill to it,
if you know what I'm saying.
- If they kept it on YouTube, I think it would,
because clearly the people that are watching it
are on YouTube. I think it wouldn't do well
on a traditional Nickelodeon, 'cause the people
on Nickelodeon don't wanna watch anime.
- I'm not too sure. I think it would be interesting
as one episode and to see how people react to that.
I would watch at least the first episode
and then see if I'd wanna keep watching.
- Yes, but I don't think it will happen, because I think
Hollywood is still in the age of "Ew, fire, don't touch it.
It's gonna burn me." when it comes to new
and creative ideas like that.
- SpongeBob SquarePants is a goofy cartoon
and as anime intro, it's funny, but as an actual anime,
it may not be as good. - I think you could do
a limited episodic run of like, eight to ten episodes.
- I would love to see it, but I don't think it
would be as successful as the original SpongeBob.
It's less successful. It's so dark and twisted
and you can see that it's just got a lot of horror themes,
but in my perfect world, this anime does exist
and I can watch it and enjoy it and not everyone has to,
but I would.
- (FBE) So finally, what cartoon would you like to see
Narmak turn into an anime intro next?
- I would love to see a Steven Universe remake,
because I think that would go so well.
- Oh, you know what would be dope?
Rocko's Modern Life could look really cool.
- Recess. - Oh, Recess.
- You got all those characters to work with.
That's an anime intro waiting to happen.
- Maybe Ed, Edd, and Eddy. Some crazy thing
like they all go against each other.
- The first thing I think of is Fairly Odd Parents.
Wouldn't that be good?
- Fairly Odd Parents could be real sick.
I could be just dark fantasy with dark magic and stuff.
It would make a good anime.
- Turn Hey Arnold into an anime series.
He's got the big, footbally head,
so he could probably use that as a weapon.
Just putting it out there. It could work.
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- Hi guys, JC here, producer at FBE.
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