Whats This? A Pikmin AND Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Reference IN THE SAME POST.

What’s this? A Pikmin AND Charlie and the Chocolate Factory reference IN THE SAME POST.

Very, very based.

now don’t dear children be alarmed

AUGUSTUS GLOOP WILL NOT BE HARMED

AUGUSTUS GLOOP WILL NOT BE HARMED

He’s self conscious.

be honest with me now, pard

The editing is amazing!

Pikmin humour

i had to

Hehe very pretty!

Nintendoodles :3

Beautiful.

Oooooooooo this is very good headcanon indeed yes…

while i'm normally a bit adverse to videos About my major interests because i can get really petty about details, but this video piqued my interest since it's about a part i don't personally know much about- the actual classification behind the creatures of Pikmin! really interesting watch!

anyways the reason i'm talking about this (other than just recommending the video) is because of a question asked near the end of the video: Who is Kageyami?

see, the scientific name for bulborbs (Oculus kageyamii), has an -i suffix, which implies the "kageyamii" comes from a modern male name (the female equivalent being -ae). the real life examples of the suffix given in the video of this are Caerostris darwini (don't look that up if you're arachnophobic btw), named after Charles Darwin, and Oplurus cuvieri, from Georges Cuvier. so the question is, who was this species named for? now, in my eyes, there's two possible answers for this.

the Doylist answer: they're named for Daisuke Kageyama, who is credited as a character designer for Pikmin. this explanation is also the one given on Pikipedia's page for the Bulborb.

and, what I would like to posit, the Watsonian answer: Kageyami/Kageyama is Olimar's surname. bulborbs are already named for the family dog, Bulbie (and it's Chappy for both in Japan!)- i think it would make sense if that familial naming scheme went a little further than just the common name. after all, bulborbs were some of the first creatures Olimar discovered, and well... it wouldn't be unusual behaviour.