Blog:Splatoon Anime/I (Ink)

I (I), which is read as Ink (インク Inku), is the first theme song for Splatoon and the Splatoon-fit paroldy of V.

It was replaced with Zig the Upper from Powerpuff Girls Z in EP004.

Animation
The intro starts with Goggles-Kun in the plaza in Squid Form, constantly looking at the veiwers, later blowing onto the screen and seeing his friends. He transforms into Humanoid and follows them, the camera rising into the sky. We later see the Blue Team, Lime Team, Pink Team and Purple Team. Next, we see the protoginasts in the plaza, with their face shot scenes. Camera rises to Rider and his team after Headphones and Glasses' face shot scenes, Rider holds his roller out in the front, making him fall off. Scene cuts to Goggles running in the stage Urchin Underpass. Purple ink appears in front, making Goggles stop and try to ink them back up. A line of blue ink appears, which apparently is Headphones helping him. Knit Cap using her slosher, followed by Glasses making a line with his Octobrush Nouveau. Goggles later shoots ink with his friends following him. Cut to a battle scene with Goggles and Rider. Goggles dodging the shots, later using the Inkzooka to attack, scene cut with Headphones with a Bubbler, Knit Cap lauching her Inkstrike and Glasses holding an Inkzooka. Cut to Cut to Goggles and Glasses using Inkzookas to wipe out Aloha (Like in the fourth issue of the manga). Cut to the cast, with the Blue Team in front. The scene blurs and the logo appears after it.

Preview
These previews show all the diffrences with the final opening.

Splatoon: Anime to Debut!
''Splatoon: Anime to Debut! (スプラトゥーン：アニメがデビューします！)'' showed I for the very first time. However, it showed diffrences with that aired with EP001. The preview of the english dub theme, Your Gonna Go Far, Kid!, uses these from this preview.
 * The song uses diffrent insturments (most notably the trumpet, replaced with the gutair), like it was remade. The final version uses the insturmental version of V and uses the lyrics to make it diffrent.
 * The camera rises faster into the sky than in the preview.
 * The final note before "sa~a koko kara ga bōkenda" is longer than in the final
 * The camera now zooms out when Rider falls off the platform.
 * When Goggles is running in Urchin Underpass, sunlight and motion blur is added.
 * The scene also shows The E3 version of Urchin Underpass in the preview version. This was corrected to show the current version in the final version.
 * In the preview, Goggles and Rider are battling in another E3 version of a stage, only this time it's Saltspray Rig. that was also corrected to show the current version in the final version.
 * When Goggles looks at his Tentatek Splattershot in a battle with Rider while his special weapon is fully charged, he has his whole head turned to face the main weapon in the preview. His eyes roll to the weapon in the final.
 * Thus, Goggles' Pilot Goggles and Armor Jacket Replica were slightly redrewn in some frames.
 * When Goggles and his team use their special weapons, Glasses is a kraken in the preview. In the final, this was repleaced with him holding an Inkzooka after the revealision in the fourth issue of the Splatoon manga.
 * Knit Cap is also redrewn in that scene.
 * Glasses using the Kraken was replaced with a scene where Goggles and Glasses are using Inkzookas.
 * Goggles and Rider posed diffrently in the preview.

Spaceworld 2016 Preview
During Spaceworld 2016, another preview was shown, only this time these changes were made.
 * Goggles is running in the second version of Urchin Underpass, when the tree was still in a team's base.
 * Glasses (as a Kraken) was replaced with him with an Inkzooka.
 * Goggles and Rider now use the pose like in the final.

Trivia

 * It uses some of the lyrics of the original music, despite the other lines being more Splatoon-fit.
 * The animation was used in Your Gonna Go Far, Kid! only to be changed to make it more like The Powerpuff Girls theme "Who's Got the Power?" by making it black and white with some color.