4 Years Later, Bright Lives…as an Anime?

It’s been 4 years of peace since Netflix cursed the world with the David Ayer/Max Landis orc cop nightmare Bright. The streamer has threatened since, in matches and begins, to deliver us extra, however regardless of the film’s success on the platform, it’s been some time since we’ve heard something a couple of continuation of its story… till now.

Netflix confirmed that the following addition to what it distressingly describes as an “expanding” Bright universe shouldn’t be a sequel to the movie, however Bright: Samurai Soul. The film is described as an animated prequel set tons of of years earlier within the blended world of human society co-existing with fantastical civilizations like orcs and elves. Specifically going down in a post-feudal Japan, Samurai Soul follows a sellsword named Izou (Shang-Chi’s Simu Liu), who finds himself crossing paths with an orc named Raiden (Fred Mancuso), as they each encounter a younger elf with entry to a robust magical wand. When the woman, Sonya (Yuzu Harada), realizes a mysterious group is after her, wishing to steal the wand to safe Japan’s future because the Meiji interval of early Imperial Japan will get underway, Izou and Raiden are pressured to place apart prejudice to work collectively and safeguard Sonya’s quest to deliver the wand house to the Elven settlements within the nation’s northern areas.

Neither Ayer nor Landis is hooked up to the mission, the latter of whom was already rumored to not be returning in gentle of a number of allegations of sexual harassment and assault. Instead, the film is the work of animation studio ARECT, directed by Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop and Your Lie in April’s Kyohei Ishiguro, and written by Michiko Yokote. Their many credit embrace writing on Cowboy Bebop and a plethora of different anime, in addition to a number of Super Sentai collection, main the writing groups on Juken Sentai Gekiranger and Tensou Sentai Goseiger.

All jokes about Bright’s questionable high quality apart—and whether or not or not individuals are actually eager to see it develop into a franchise 4 years down the road—it’s attention-grabbing that Samurai Soul is, in the end, to date faraway from what Bright was (and actually, the elements of the movie that didn’t work), that it feels prefer it might virtually simply drop the model fully and be its personal pseudo-historical fantasy creation. We’ll see if the Bright affiliation helps or hinders when Samurai Soul begins streaming on Netflix on October 12.

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