Genshin Impact is Getting an Anime from Demon Slayer’s Ufotable

If you play video video games, there’s probability that you simply play (or are at the very least conscious of) Genshin Impact. The action-RPG from developer HoYoverse that first reminded individuals of Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been a big deal because it first landed in 2020, with gamers and followers alike falling arduous for the sport’s world and characters. And with how standard it’s turn into, it’s the right time for it to get an anime.

HoYoverse revealed a trailer for the anime shortly earlier than the weekend started throughout a livestream for the sport’s upcoming 3.1 replace. The anime undertaking comes courtesy of Ufotable, the anime studio at present behind Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and Fate/Zero. It’s a trailer that doesn’t do way more than let you know that Genshin Impact’s going to be an anime and exhibits off the sport’s world, however dang if it doesn’t look stunning. And what’s extra, it’s a “long-term project,” which implies it received’t be a one-off handful of episodes, although that’s not clear if it means it’ll be a straight adaptation of the sport’s story.

Set on this planet of Teyvat, Genshin Impact follows Lumine or Aether, the respective feminine or male participant character (also referred to as the Traveler), as they get trapped in Teyvat and endure to avoid wasting their kidnapped twin. To accomplish that means going by way of Teyvat’s seven nations, making allies and turning into embroiled in every nation’s present disaster. Post-launch updates usually add new characters, areas, and quests for gamers to dive into, together with a crossover with Aloy from Horizon.

Given how influenced by anime Genshin is, it is sensible that it might make the soar over to animation. It’s a medium that video video games appear significantly higher fitted to: exterior of Arcane, sequence like Castlevania and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners from earlier this week make an amazing case for this. And that is an space Ufotable’s no stranger to, because the studio dealt with anime diversifications for Bandai Namco’s God Eater and the Tales video games Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Zestiria. Whenever it releases, this Genshin Impact anime can’t have come at a greater time.

[through IGN]

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