As part of its TUDUM showcase, Netflix has announced that an Onimusha anime series is in the works and has revealed a number of first-look images via a tweet from their Anime account.
According to Eurogamer, the show will utilise a '3DCG' character art style with hand-drawn backgrounds. Such an approach has allowed the studio to build its protagonist, Miyamoto Musashi, in the image of frequent Akira Kurosawa collaborator Toshihiro Mifune.
Based on the popular Capcom samurai franchise, the show is being produced by the studio behind the Dragon's Dogma series, Sublimation Inc. As poor as that show was, not all hope is lost. Helming the show will be director Takashi Miike — the one-man filmmaking machine with over 100 directorial credits to his name including 13 Assassins, Audition and 2019's punchy rom-com, First Love.
Check out the first-look images below to get an idea of what the show will have in store — visually, at least:
This Capcom franchise has been dormant since the release of the Onimusha: Warlords remaster back in 2019. While it's no dead certainty, we would guess that audience responses to the upcoming show could be a deciding factor in the time it takes for us to receive another game in the series.
Apart from the above shots, we have very little to go off in regard to what the show will be about or the character arcs it will follow. The still images all look pleasant enough in their current state, though the success of the anime will surely come down to how the team choose to tackle the samurai combat sequences. Only time will tell.
What do you make of the Onimusha anime announcement? Draw your sword in the comments below and let us know!
[source twitter.com, via eurogamer.net]
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Oof, that's a fair bit rude to Onimusha fans to bait them with something like this. Seems like it could be a similar situation to Dragon's Dogma though: franchise lays dormant for many years, gets a Netflix anime out of the blue and then a few years later gets an entirely new entry. One can only hope I suppose.
Interesting, Miike seems like the right choice to do an Onimusha anime justice. I already get the impression they're going to diverge quite considerably from the lore of the games though. Musashi isn't a protagonist, nor does he even appear in any of the four main games. Still, Toshiro Mifune is a badass, I can see why they'd use his likeness.
Great news! Takashi Miike is a living god of cinema
Well if you want limbs lopped off and bodies exploding all over the place, Miike's your guy.
Onimusha 3 was cool, why don’t they just remaster that, instead?
Suda51 will be begging him to do No More Heroes after this (which would probably work much better as an animated project than live action anyway…)
Hope you described First Love as a rom-com to a Richard Curtis fan
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It's a kid's film, but still very odd
Stills look good but so far adaptations have been choppy.
I'm hoping this is good for the Onimusha fans, but Capcom has a track record when it comes to film/tv adaptations. Basically, I won't be surprised if it turns out to be a hot mess.
I’m hoping for the best. I love onimusha. Wish they would make a sequel to tactics.
Wowsers. About time they remembered this. Hopefully they'll also remember Dead Rising one day.
Hopefully they pay more respect to the game's materials and make it dark and gritty with a bloody good storyline. Feudal Sengoku style story like this are good but only if they kept it true and not aim to please the woke crowd.
Doesn't matter if this is good or not, it's going to get be cancelled. Netflix has a history.
Cautiously optimistic. I love me some Onimusha, but Netflix/Disney/etc. have a track record of some really off-putting changes when they adapt video games or comics or books or ... anything.
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