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It's Adi Shankar, the guy behind the Castlevania animated series who'll helm the project. Just like with his previous video game-to-series adaptation, Adi Shankar broke the news on his Facebook page:

Not much else is known about the project at this point but it seems like Ubisoft decidedly wants steer away from the disaster that was the big screen adaptation of the series and is now considering a new approach. Do you think an anime formula will work?

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[seam]

It's going to suck

yep.

 

[HaloEliteLegend]

Even with passionate folk like Mr. Shankar, we're still yet to see even one decent film/TV/anime adaptation of a video game. It's because video games are fundamentally different from films by virtue of being fully interactive. That said.... I will check this out when it's out. Maybe this one can break the curse.

 

[Stephano]

When it comes out everyone, just have low expectations and it will apear better than it actually is. After the AC movie, I know my expectations for this will be very low.

 

[Xzi]

Why ruin such graet series of games??

Ehh, I'd say they only really nailed it on a couple of the games and the rest were so-so or just plain bad. So a bad movie and a bad anime adaption are probably par for the course given how Ubisoft has dragged the whole AC franchise on too long. The best looking game I've seen from Ubisoft in years is Mario x Rabbids. They fucked up For Honor terribly, and they still have it overpriced even after the reviews took to the dirt.

 

[RustInPeace]

If the Castlevania anime turns out well, then I won't mind this.

 

[szymon170]

 

[Jonna]

Wicked. I liked the movie, so this should be interesting!

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

This'll be fun to watch.

The only nitpick I'll have with this is that it'll be in Japanese primarily but yeah, in time they will dub it to other languages. It feels kind of odd to watch something originally in English then become Japanese content.

 

[Deleted User]

Why ruin such graet series of games??

You mean why ruin anime, Ass Cred is garbage as a series.

This is gonna tank, HARD, and I'll laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and........

 

[ATofix]

"We need to appeal to the weeb demographic." -What UbiSoft likely thought

 

[Dr.Hacknik]

This isn't SAO! THIS IS BULLSHIT!

 

[narutopet112]

adi Shankar..... Good God why choose him. A actual anime director would've been better. Lets see how this turns out -_-

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

Can someone explain why people here are so grumpy with this upcoming anime version of AC?

 

[narutopet112]

Can someone explain why people here are so grumpy with this upcoming anime version of AC?

adi Shankar producer of a anime...... Should've sticked with a Actual anime director.

 

[tbb043]

I don't know what to say.

Believe it or not, George isn't at home.

And it sounds like a cartoon, based on how it's been described here not being made by the Japanese in Japan and all.

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

adi Shankar producer of a anime...... Should've sticked with a Actual anime director.

Shit. So it's not really anime, just anime in name only. :-/

Not interested anymore.

 

[SonicfanCEMUTesting]

Since when Assassin's Creed became popular in Japan? Oh wait, it never did.

 

[Deleted User]

....as if the live-action movie wasn't a lesson; would rather see:
[...]
PaRappa the Rapper
[...]

There actually was a PaRappa anime. I don't remember how good or bad it was though, it's been a while since I've watched it and I only got to watch a tiny amount of episodes.

 

[H1B1Esquire]

There actually was a PaRappa anime. I don't remember how good or bad it was though, it's been a while since I've watched it and I only got to watch a tiny amount of episodes.

30 episodes; I think I might check it out. Thanks for letting me know

 

[raystriker]

Castlevania was pretty fucking good! I have high hopes for what comes next from Adi Shankar!