Mass Effect Anime Due – By The Creators of Freezing…
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Apr 9, 2011 09:16 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Bioware, Freezing, Funimation, Movies
Bioware’s blockbuster Mass Effect is to receive an anime movie adaptation, to be produced by Funimation and T.O. Entertainment, the creators of such memorable SF classics as Freezing and Baka to Test.
The anime itself is due worldwide in 2012 (including in Japan, where the latest game sold all of 9,000 copies), for digital and disc distribution.
The involvement of T.O. Entertainment in particular has perplexed many, although it is at least a step up from the involvement of Hollywood…
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Will I get a Grunt plushie if I watch it?
You can get a Wrex plushie, as I would assume it will only cover the scope of Mass Effect 1. Unless they're going to butcher the storyline while they're at it.
I want a Legion plastic kit.
A Tali nendoroid figure me please!
I'd settle for a Subject Zero ona-hole.
Or as I like to think of it, a "Box in the Jack."
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week...
I'd like some Geth action figures and Normandy and Sovereign model kits.
Thane wallscroll for the fangirls please
Don't forget about "Yes we can!" book, by Shepard.
Samara Oppai Mousepad should sell.
Miranda, well, perhaps not Oppai, but it would sell as well.
Shinryaku! Reaper Musume.
Legion oppai mousepad.
Hi, I am commander Shepard, and this is my favourite anime on the citadel.
Thane x Shepard BL doujinshi
grunt plushie sounds too cute :)
@Chivral who's your avatar?
@chivral
who's your avatar?
Do people in Japan even know what Mass Effect is?
Seeing as how it sold less copies than the population of my school, how an anime is supposed to do well is beyond me...
I wonder if they will use the original voice actors.
They better animate Mordin singing "I am a scientist Salarian".
It's a prequel focused on the first contact war with the turians.
I love the Mass Effect games, and I love anime, but I don't want this.
Instead of trying to win the japs with an anime they should just pull a NiER and use a faggy anime head for Shepard as default for the Japanese version. The game isn't going to sell in Niponica as long as it features a bald mexican who lives down in the uncanney valley on the cover.
Actually, I think if they made Shepard a main character and kept him like in the game (or her, I guess) it may actually cause Japanese to really want to play it and see further into this universe.
Seriously, Shepard as a character is a lot like Kyon and many of the popular sarcastic male leads, but also exhibits responsibility and leadership on top of it in a way that people have complained is lacking in anime: a middle-aged man being a proper hero (without being musclebound for no real reason).
Basically he's as close to a believably perfect guy as you can get under his paragon route without being completely angelic. His morality has its guidelines and he's willing to shoot when it's appropriate. And even his renegade route, what I've seen of it anyway, is very well delivered to make him like an anti-hero.
God I hope the Bioware writers handle it... I can easily see him written a lot like the captain from Firefly as a renegade... and actually the same for Paragon, just a tad less douchebaggery :D
Those are western complaints of anime...
I don't think so, I think it's the complaints of many people over a certain age. I think it's a major, if unconscious, reason why otaku are so frowned upon in their culture, and in many ways, ours. Anime characters are a perpetual harkening back to adolescents and childhood and all the 'good old days' for us before we had responsibilities. As such it's not hard to consider that the reason so many otaku are so maladjusted to life around them because they want to remain in that state, and anime assists that perception in some ways.
I may not have any proof, but I believe if more credence were given to 25 or 30-year-old heroes with a more adult sensibility, then it may open up a new demographic, as well as change some perspectives.
Mass Effect may not be the conduit considering its basis, but I still believe this to be the case.
I think Femshep would be the way to go for a crosscoast attempt.
Cute enough for the moemobs, badass enough for the Kusanagi-fanciers.
'if more credence were given to 25 or 30-year-old heroes with a more adult sensibility, then it may open up a new demographic, as well as change some perspectives.'
So, basically, Craft Lawrence is the hero of the future.
Sounds good to me.
Then again, I'm a big Jet Black fan, so the "oji-san" factor is an easy way to get my support.
Funimation isn't co-producing this to "win the Japs." Their intention is make an anime of a popular western game franchise and sell it to anime fans and, hopefully, gamers in the US. Because I don't see these shows winning any hearts there.
I should go...
Who really knows anyway?
More importantly, anime is cheap. There can never be an anime with the budget of an American cartoon because just about every goal of western-produced anime is "Invest as little as possible so it'll be bad, but profitable without risk."
It could be cheaper if they produced it in Korea, but it wouldn't be anime, would it?
I believe this comment got lost on its way here so I'll link it for the author.
It's a difference if we're talking about "cartoons" or animated features (are those even made anymore in America? Isn't it all inexpensive 3D renders these days anyway?). TV productions are usually dirt cheap on both sides of the ocean. Cinema-grade movies in general might have slightly lower budgets in Japan (there are still more than enough exceptions to that rule), but the outcome is still usually of higher real or perceived quality.
More importantly, cartoons is cheap. There can never be a cartoon with the budget of an Japanese anime because just about every goal of western-produced cartoons is "Invest as little as possible so it'll be bad, but profitable without risk."
Doesn't sound too different does it? btw
I would be shocked most western produced cartoons cost allot more then anime-ish cartoons or co-production animes.
Gurren Lagann was about $200K an episode going over budget. Stand Alone Complex got attention for its insane $300K back in the day. Merchandise-driven Macross F is one of the few to surpass it since with a lavish $400K. Those are the pricey ones; your average shows like Baka to Test and Lucky Star are below a $100K.
Cheap, licensed, crap cartoons like Sabrina the Animated Series are around $250~$300K. Flash shows like Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends around $300K~$400K. "Low budget" ones like Kids Next Door being around $450K. The average American action cartoon is said to be about $600K an episode these days, while pricey ones like Avatar and Futurama are a million a pop. Simpsons and Family Guy go well beyond that, but I hear it's mostly for the voices. There are exceptions, like Aqua Teen Hunger Force's infamous $60K an episode, which is Elfen Lied money.
I don't think you realize how far those Japanese animators push themselves for peanuts, or why they need stills and stock footage in the first place. Korea might have it even worse, but Japan is hardly an animator's paradise. It's why we hire them, not the other way around.
Because they wanted to make it happen.It was such a good storyline that Hollywood wanted to make the video game into movie believing this would sell considering its record sells as a game.
I'm commander Shepard and this is my favorite comment on the thread.
I'll be damned if Shepard won't be female (and I'll approve if she is). And if she is, I doubt they'll make her a panzer bull-dyke, so there goes your "fag" version.
grunt looks like a testicle and mordin looks like a penis. just saying.
Krogans have 8 testicles and solarians are dicks soo...
They have 4 not 8.
"Yeah, kick him in the quad! Sorry, my father was a Krogan."
Haven't played any Mass Effect games, but anime co-productions are a step in the right direction for the western industry.
Only is you want them to ruin what they touch.
Mweh unless they do it like they did with the Wolferine anime, add Katana's to it just because it's japan.
Oh and make some regular old fart fight on par with wolverine, so much for mutants with super powers.
Funny enough, the story arc they used for the Wolverine anime is canon as according to the comic books. I would have never known if my comic geek friend didn't tell me.
But I know what you mean. Hopefully everything sticks to the actual content in this production and not get japanofied.
Oh hey, from the guys that animated Baka to Test?
This might not be so bad.
well, unlike the dreadfully bad impressions i carried away from wolverine and iron man, the x-men anime looks potent... so maybe the time is right for a mass effect anime as well
the fact that its in the hands of ppl specialising in arbitrary pervesions is worrying tho...
Because there's NOTHING perverted that goes on in Mass Effect at all. :/
Nope, a bastion of purity and righteousness. mYEEEP.
INVESTIGATE DAT ASS
Mass Effect takes in space, right? Imagine the ero-possibilities. :P
Like a space harem. Topless alien chicks and their oppai floating in a zero-g environment. The opening scene could be the sight of shimapan floating across the room right in the hero's face.
It will be like Tench Muyo, except more ecchi.
if you choose to romance Miranda and talk to Mordin he will give edy a guide or something on inventive uses of biotic fields for you to look at
Salivating: Not to mention all the hot Elcor montage action.
(Because otherwise the foreplay would take about a month)
Baka to Test's animation production was actually done by SILVER LINK. As far as I can see there is no mention of them here so saying 'from the creators' is rather misleading when most people consider the animation production studio to be the core of a shows creation.