Shenmue: Video Game Classic is an anime

Most recently, there were always rumors about a new Shenmue project, but only last night were fans of Segas Cult Game Certainty: The video game is being adapted as an anime series. Although details are still relatively rare, we summarize the project (via Crunchyroll) to the project for you.

Crunchyroll and Adult Swim make Shenmue anime

For the production of the upcoming series, VOD providers cooperate Crunchyroll and Adult Swim. Overall, the anime adaptation will include 13 episodes that arise in the Studio Telecom Animation Film ( Tower of God ). The item of the director clothed Chikara Sakurai ( One-Punch Man Season 2 ). Furthermore, Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki looks after the project as an executive producer.

The story is based on the template accordingly: After Ryo Hazuki has to experience how his father is murdered in the family dojo brutally, the young protagonist revolves revenge. He s dedicated his life to the search for the perpetrator and goes on a journey that should lead him to the remote Hong Kong. When he comes to the track when he gets mysterious powers, the events begin to fall over.

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Shenmue enjoys cult status

The first part of the series originally appeared in 1999 in Japan for Segas Dreamcast and enjoys cult status under Gamern until today. The game is not only due to his for the time enormous budgets of estimated $ 50 million to the most ambitious posts of video game history. Suzukis explained goal with his work was to accurately accurately and detail life in a small Japanese town.

In 2001, the successor, which was released in 2018 together with its predecessor as HD-Remaster in a technically revised version for current consoles. In 2019, Shenmue III has published the last part of the series so far, but a continuation of the series was probably not excluded.

When the Shenmue approach will start exactly, is currently unknown. Outside Japan and the US, the series will be visible to Crunchyroll.

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