NCHProductions
is a Singaporean web animator who mainly covers animated parodies of aspects of video games, mainly called "[game] Shots." Their channel started in 2006, but didn't really gain much attention until the release of the video "MONSTERS of Monster Hunter. Plate runs." After this, his videos got significantly more popular.
Reoccuring Series made so far:
- MonShots: A mixture of parodying typical hunter and monster behavior and providing useful guides and information.
- The Clean and Mud Gang Show: Tom and Jerry parody starring the rivalry of Mitzune and Almu.
- RA Girls Shots: A series of shorts with the vehicles and buildings of Red Alert turned into mecha girls.
- PokeShots: Pokémon videos
- Pokémon moves, literally: Series focused on taking the names or implications of various moves literally. A bunch of steel girder puns ensue.
- Pokémon slaps: A series of videos going though each Gen of Pokémon "slapping" each other, often in very cursed ways.
- Pokémon Starters: Short animtions of the Starters doing things in a theme set to songs in the Youtube music library.
- Interlopers: An UndertalexLISA crossover collab.
- Draw Dat Asset!: Behind the scenes videos on NCH's drawing process on various animation assets.
Examples:
- Bait-and-Switch: Their series of Undertale fan animations led to high demand for a fight scene starring Sans. When "Sans Fight Animation" was released, it was all about Sans saving his brother Papyrus...but not the skeletons; rather, it's about type fonts, with Comic Sans trying to save Papyrus from Arial, Times New Roman, Tahoma, Cooper, and so on.
- Black Comedy: In Raid in the Pocket, most of the Mobile Suits are turned into girls. Gundam Alex? A fry cook who has a Chobham grill to cook hamburgers.
- Body Horror: There are actually quite a few examples. One could say it's something of a thumbprint.
- "Mario Shots: Bowsette's Transformation" animates the Koopa King's metamorphosis into the eponymous fan character in the most disturbingly realistic way.
- The Cameo: The screaming Mernos from Something About appears in several Monster Hunter: World shots.
- Curse Cut Short: JoCrap's rant in "MHWorld shots: State of SnS" gets cut off by him slipping on his own oils.JoCrap: You hear that, Velkhana?! I'm gonna splash you, in the god weapon's oily power! You popsicle-winged son of a- (slips)
- Distracted by the Sexy: Invoked in one short that is an extended clip of Kulve Taroth as a bikini-clad Cute Monster Girl poledancing around a stalagmite, then suddenly ends with her turning back to her normal self and breathing a massive fireblast into the ceiling that drops molten gold onto an unfortunate hunter.
- Faux Horrific: In "MHWorld Shots: Arch-Tempered Zorah in a Nutshell," Zorah Magdaros is apparently too terrified to move by Nergigante doing the Default Dance on its back.
- Funny Background Event:
- In "State of SnS", the last hunter messing around in the background tries to clutch claw onto Deviljho's face only for it to casually swing him into its mouth.
- "Dodogama Life" consists almost solely of this as Dodogama spends half an hour napping while monsters, lynians, and hunters go about their business in the background.
- Groin Attack: The Tri version of Alatreon suffers this in "MHWorld Shots: New and Old Alatreon".
- Karmic Death: A Barioth in "MHWorld Shots: MHWorld Iceborne demo in a nutshell" throws a Tigrex off a cliff in an homage to The Lion King (1994). They then get booted off the same cliff by a Hunter, killing them.
- Meaningful Name: Boon is a Hunter in basic armor who appears in several Monster Hunter themed videos. His name is also a Sdrawkcab Alias for "noob", and he mostly appears to show new players what not to do.
- Moe Anthropomorphism: Shots using Kulve Taroth, units from Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Advance Wars, and the gunship boss from Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon as cute girls. Also a re-skinning of the Antarctic raid from Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket as a beach party.
- Mood Whiplash: The "Nargacuga" video depicts the tragic story of a Nargacuga trying its best to raise its cub in a hostile world, eventually leaving on a hunt and never returning while its cub disappears to an unknown fate. Then The Stinger cuts to a hunter proudly showing off his completed Nargacuga armor set.
- Neat Freak: "The Clean and Mud Gang Show" series stars cartoon versions of Monster Hunter's Mizutsune and Almudron, with Mitzy trying to obsessively clean everything muddied up by Almu.
- The Pig-Pen: "The Clean and Mud Gang Show" series stars cartoon versions of Monster Hunter's Mizutsune and Almudron, with Almu trying to coat everything in mud and taking umbrage at Mitzy ruining their mess.
- Punny Name: "Reverse Isekai" stars a cartoon truck called "Nii-San" that undergoes Reincarnate in Another World and becomes a "Nissan"-brand truck.
- Reincarnate in Another World: "Reverse Isekai" is a short joke based on the frequency of how many depictions of the trope start with a case of Running Over the Plot, by having a sentient cartoon truck accidentally get crushed by a large girl and be reincarnated as a live-action truck unable to move on its own.
- Running Gag:
- Whenever a monster falls over in the Monster Hunter shots, it will get flash-mobbed by a group of hunters, no matter how nonsensical it would be.
- In the animation series starring Starter Pokémon, Swampert poses seductively and winks for the camera a lot.
- In most of the animations he's in, Wigglerhead Hunter doing Corner Healing note with text slowly appearing saying "DON'T CORNER HEAL."
- After Iceborne came out, Sling Bursts are animated like Magun summons. With said summons being musclemen with heads shaped like the Stinger Ammo.
- Anytime a move with Beam in it's name is represented in Pokémon moves, literally, it's always in the form of a steel girder.
- The Stinger: Videos regularly end with a short stinger offering one last joke.
- Surprisingly Creepy Moment: One joke the author uses is, in more freeform videos but often for Pokémon, putting in creepy stuff out of nowhere. It's rare enough that it's easy to forget they have this habit.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill:
- In "MHRise Shots: Magnamalo, Wizard of Malice" the eponymous monster gets rushed by a hunter riding a Mizutsune, an angry Rathian, a hunter with a Blastoad, and a hunter juiced up by Spiribirds all at once, causing a tremendous explosion.
- In the outtakes of the same video, the Magnamalo is toppled by its own "booger fire" after a Great Sword Hunter uses his Wirebug to remove it; Magnamalo is then pummeled by the mounted Mizutsune, the angry Rathian, and three other Hunters while the Palamutes dance in front of it.
- Too Dumb to Live:
- NotGenji is basically your pure-DPS Long Sword player taken to extremes outside the realm of rational thought. This includes charging Behemoth before Tank has gained enmity, lining several Comets close to each other where Behemoth can destroy them, and refusing to use elemental weapons against Alatreon.
- Against Behemoth, Wiggler is the only member to not fall into this (Corner Healing aside), as the others do seriously stupid shit like NotGenji's shenanigans above, running out one of the arena exits where Charybdis can block it completely, and cooking meat while the Behemoth spams Charybdis. Wiggler vents his frustration one of the few ways he can as a result.
- Whole-Plot Reference:
- "Cooper's Summer Car", the follow-up/spin-off to "Sans Fight Animation", directly references My Summer Car.
- The latter part of "MHRise Shots: Magnamalo, W̶y̶v̶e̶r̶n̶ WIZARD of Malice" is essentially Magnamalo collecting the abilities of various monsters like Thanos does with the Infinity Stones, culminating in a blatant recreation of the climax before the Snap.
