In hoping to develop the PlayStation model outdoors of video video games, Sony kicked off this 12 months’s Client and Electronics occasion with a bang by unveiling their plans to provide an anime sequence primarily based on Sucker Punch Productions’ finest promoting recreation, Ghost of Tsushima.
Titled Ghost of Tsushima: Legends, the sequence shall be a collaborative manufacturing between Crunchyroll, Aniplex, Sony Music, and PlayStation Productions, all of whom will work collectively to supposedly convey “conventional samurai aesthetics to life with cinematic storytelling and hanging visuals.
By way of particular roles, Aniplex would be the sequence’ manufacturing home, Batman Ninja and Pop Workforce Epic studio Kaimkaze Douga will present its animation, Sony Music is answerable for music, Destiny/Zero franchise creator Gen Urobuchi will contribute story composition work, and Mega Man X8 and Mega Man X Command Mission character animator Takanobu Mizuno will function its general director.
Sadly, outdoors of its base existence, completely zero particulars got by Sony concerning Legends‘ narrative.
Nevertheless, what the corporate was capable of present have been quotes from the executives on the prime of Sony Music, PlayStation Productions, and Crunchyroll.
“This challenge is a testomony to the inventive synergy throughout the Sony household, uniting the experience of PlayStation Studios and PlayStation Productions; the inventive group of Sucker Punch Productions and Aniplex; Sony Music’s iconic international artist roster; and Crunchyroll’s fan-first international advertising and distribution footprint,” stated Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini acknowledged. “The Ghost of Tsushima anime will provide followers an thrilling new strategy to expertise the sport in an anime fashion that shall be daring and groundbreaking.”
“Having already confirmed the immense high quality and flexibility of our gaming properties throughout a number of profitable movie and tv tasks, we couldn’t be extra excited to announce our first ever anime adaptation,” acknowledged Head of PlayStation Productions Asad Qizilbash. “Ghost of Tsushima’s wealthy, immersive world and its fantastical Legends mode primarily based on Japanese mythology present the right canvas for this challenge, and Aniplex is the right accomplice to translate Sucker Punch Productions’ hit online game into a surprising new anime sequence.”
In the meantime, Sony Music Leisure Premium Content material President Tom Mackay emphasised, “We’re excited to create new alternatives for our artists to interact with such unimaginable international IP. Music performs such a key position within the general viewers viewing expertise and we’re thrilled to be working alongside our Sony companions to develop compelling content material for followers around the globe.”
At present, Ghost of Tsushima: Legends is slated to air completely on Crunchyroll someday in 2027, with its full inventive group and solid to ostensibly be revealed someday earlier than then.
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