Mass Effect Anime Feature Film

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If you like the Mass Effect games, BioWare is hoping you'll want to return to that world again in anime form.

The EA-owned studio is teaming with Japanese distributor FUNimation to create an anime feature film adapted from the sci-fi RPG. Tokyo-based anime and international feature film production company T.O Entertainment has also signed on as a co-producer. We don't yet know what the story will entail, but according to the press release we received, it will "tell the tale of an epic science fiction adventure set in a vast universe filled with dangerous alien life and mysterious, uncharted planets."

Casey Hudson of BioWare, executive producer of the Mass Effect series, will serve as executive producer on the film, along with FUNimation President and CEO Gen Fukunaga and Director of Original Entertainment Chris Moujaes and T.O. Entertainment's CEO Takeichi Honda and Yui Shibata.

"Over the last few years, we have revealed different pieces of the Mass Effect world through different media. Extending the story through an anime medium is another amazing opportunity for us," said Casey Hudson, Executive Producer for the Mass Effect series. "Partnering with FUNimation ensures that we will bring this rich universe to life with the utmost quality and the same attention to detail that the Mass Effect games are known for."

"It is thanks to the enormous and passionate Mass Effect fan base that this movie is made possible," said Gen Fukunaga, President & CEO of FUNimation. "With production underway on the Dragon Age video, we are excited to team up with another BioWare team to add an exciting new chapter to this vast sci-fi world."

Production of the Mass Effect anime movie has already begun. Digital and home-video releases are scheduled for the summer of 2012.

http://bluray.ign.com/articles/116/1160409p1.html
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I guess they're pulling a Dead Space/Dante's Inferno on this one.
 
:hmmm:

I like Mass Effect and some anime. I don't know if I would like it combined. I would much rather see a CG Mass Effect movie instead. Didn't Dead Space do something like this as well? Well I hope it's as good as the game. Just have to wait and see.
 
Weren't they also make a LA film at one point of Mass Effect? Whatever happened to that project? Or maybe it got merged into this. :hmmm:

Either way it works out, I'd go see it/download it since I enjoyed ME's story but less so of its gameplay.
 
wierd, a WRPG + anime. hmm. i'll probably check it out just to see how it goes.
 
The live action film is still in the planning stages. This anime is a direct to video feature film. It will most likely be in the same vain as the Dead Space and Dante's Inferno animated features.
 
arent Mass Effect 1&2 revered as a non-suck games?

Just seems like the shoe is on the other foot most of the time. Like how mediocre animes crap out some really horrible game. I guess I'll be looking out for it in interest though :monster:
 
:ahmed:

Well, better an anime film than a shitty live-action film with sub-par actors: at least they'll keep the voice actors in. They'd damn well better, anyway.

Still...I'll believe this is anything other than a crappy money-making machine when I see it. Video games generally don't make for excellent anime films...as Dead Space and Dante's Inferno will attest. Pretty animation, yes, but anything even remotely resembling a plot is usually thrown out the window. This is obviously not going to agree with Mass Effect, so it'll be interesting to see what they come up with...
 
Don't get me wrong...I love Mass Effect as much as the next guy. I'm just a little leery of a game-to-movie adaptation...seeing as the track record in that department is less than stellar.

Then again, the fact that it's going to be an anime might make things easier. I think the biggest problem game-to-movie projects face is the challenge of making a world that's not real into a world that is, and casting actors appropriately is usually a disaster.

The biggest problem for this particular project, in my opinion, is that viewers will lose the "choice factor" which was one of Mass Effect's strong points. Part of why I enjoyed it so much was because I controlled the responses and, essentially, who Shepard was. A movie will lose that sense of control and might be less successful among fans as a result.

I'll keep my fingers crossed though, since I like the games and would certainly want this project to succeed. :monster:
 
i had the impression ME appealed to non-anime fans. it seems strange they're going for that look, unless they mean animation in general and not japanese animation.

Martel: what is that character in your avatar and sig from? i don't recall seeing her.
 
Meh, this isn't very surprising. They did the same thing with Halo, Dante's Inferno, Batman and the Matrix (Although the last two "anime-ized" things out of that list were actually pretty good). It's just another form of merchandising.
 
I remember watching Halo Legends once and I did not like it till the final episode. I love the Mass Effect series and since this is an anime film I guess I am pretty interested. Like Martel said.. it is really better off being an anime film than live action. Oh and since it is not a bunch of episodes I will look out for this. I just hope it will be worth watching though and will not have some crap plot. It will just put the games down if they come out with a really shit movie. :hmph:
 
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