Pilot you really wished it became a series

[Bakuma1997]

Pilot is the basically a prototype for a series, be anime, live action or cartoons, while some succeed, some aren't so lucky, showcase yours
While using the Cartoon preflix, anime and Live action applies

Mine must go to this one, especially in a age that ensued the only thing that changed was the shape of the phones

 

[Guinea]

One of the most OP DC characters never got his own show and that still makes me sad:

Edit- Oh, and while this show never even had a pilot episode, and is currently in limbo with no hope to ever being made, I'm sad that the Final Fantasy 9 anime never came to be. It was going to be called Final Fantasy IX: The Black Mages' Legacy, which featured Vivi's children growing up and saving the world. I hate Square Enix sometimes.

 

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

Kind of cheating here since this is only a teaser technically, but man I would've loved to see something like this when I was a kid:

This is a project Daisuke Nakayama, a Japanese artist/animator/director, has had floating around for almost 20 years now. I have no idea what has been preventing this from getting off the ground after all this time, but he does appear to still have interest in the project and still draws characters from it so hopefully my man can finally have his day and get this thing out there in some way.

 

[bjork]

The US Sailor Moon, out of morbid curiosity more than anything

 

[Eclipse14]

Popful Mail. There was a promotional video done as a pitch to studios, but failed to gather interest. It's a shame, really.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Popful Mail. There was a promotional video done as a pitch to studios, but failed to gather interest. It's a shame, really.

Such a shame, the game ended up obscure in two media

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Still bitter over this one:

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

Underfist.

Maxwell Atoms keeps getting shafted, you can't hate the entertainment industry enough.

 

[nathman]

Don't know if this counts but I wish the BBC dubbed the entire Urusei Yatsura series instead of just episodes 1 & 3.

 

[diet_orange]

Mockingbird Lane

It was aired once in 2012 as a Halloween Special and was full-on reimagining of The Munsters. Overall kind of had a vibe not too dissimilar to "Pushing Daises" and "Dead Like Me" and I really do wish it had been picked up. I mean, come on! It had Eddie Izzard as Grandpa!

 

[ThomatoSauce]

I'm not really sure if this counts, but I'm still kinda miffed to this day that ARMS only ever had a prologue comic made that teased a run that never ended up happening.

 

[romantic_cd_scratcher]

this seemed like it was gonna be fun

sadly it was just an arts project and never been made into an actual cartoon

 

[Luxfin]

I still hate the reason for it not gettinng off the ground for "action shows turns kids into terrorists."

 

[BrawlMan]

Kind of cheating here since this is only a teaser technically, but man I would've loved to see something like this when I was a kid:

This is a project Daisuke Nakayama, a Japanese artist/animator/director, has had floating around for almost 20 years now. I have no idea what has been preventing this from getting off the ground after all this time, but he does appear to still have interest in the project and still draws characters from it so hopefully my man can finally have his day and get this thing out there in some way.

This is like Jet Set combined with Gorillaz and Ghost Busters! Why didn't anybody pick this up?! I would watch that any age!

Korgoth of Barbaria. For whatever reason, adult swim never made more episodes despite promoting the shit out of it back in the mid 2000s.

 

[Ikagura]

Cyberpunk/biopunk future featuring an anthropomorphic rat doing investigations in a grungy 00's style.

Warning: some crude humour and suggestive jokes.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Cyberpunk/biopunk future featuring an anthropomorphic rat doing investigations in a grungy 00's style.

Warning: some crude humour and suggestive jokes.

Animation style reminds me of an hypotetical adult TMNT reboot or a Hellboy Saturday Morning series, sharing your pain

 

[Ikagura]

Animation style reminds me of an hypotetical adult TMNT reboot or a Hellboy Saturday Morning series, sharing your pain.

It has the vibes of that one Batman series (Beyond I think).

Funnily a more adult TMNT would just be an adaption closer to the original comics.