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This is not official! I don’t even really know if this even looks good enough that I’d need to say that, but, y'know, just in case, no, this is not official. This is an idea that’s been nagging at me for a while and wouldn’t go away, so I finally decided to make a mock-up poster for it.

And to get this out of the way, yes, I did trace a bit–Imelda was partially traced from Miguel and the Amazing Alebrijes and Héctor was partially traced from the sticker set. … And then most of the background was painted over the original poster I made this from. I wanted to emulate the Miguel and the Amazing Alebrijes style and make sure I got the setup of the poster right, so a bit of tracing was necessary. With that out of the way…

I’ve daydreamed a lot about the idea of a Coco animated series and what it would entail. In all likelihood, if there ever WERE an animated series, it would probably be focused on Miguel and/or Socorro, post-movie, with B-plots featuring Héctor and the rest of the dead Riveras, and maybe occasionally Ernesto. I would guess that would be the thing Disney/Pixar would most likely go with if something like this ever happened, because kids like Miguel and would want to see him in a cartoon.

But even so, another idea struck me… What if a Coco animated series focused on… well… Coco? What if it was a prequel series? Again, I know it’s probably not likely, but… hear me out!

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