The Three-Body Problem’s Chinese Anime Adaptation Hits Next Month

Cixin Liu’s sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem can’t cease leaping to different codecs. In addition to subsequent yr’s Netflix collection from The Terror: Infamy’s Alexander Woo and Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and DB Weiss, final yr noticed the discharge of a serialized podcast (totally different from the audiobook model). And for 2022, we’ve obtained an animated collection that’s premiering truly fairly quickly.

Come December 3, an anime model of The Three-Body Problem will launch on the Chinese streaming platform Bilibili. This collection was initially introduced in 2019 with a trailer, however issues have been pretty quiet on that entrance up till now. Developed by CG studio YHTK Entertainment in partnership with The Three-Body Universe, a studio constructed particularly for the aim of managing the franchise, a brand new trailer for the upcoming anime was launched earlier within the week throughout a Bilibili anime showcase.

Released in 2008 as a standalone ebook after beforehand being serialized within the Science Fiction World journal in 2006, The Three-Body Problem is the primary in Liu’s exhausting sci-fi collection, Remembrance of Earth’s Past. In the unique novel, humanity manages to determine contact with an alien race and prepares for his or her arrival. Naturally, traces are drawn between genuinely welcoming a brand new species to Earth with open arms and making ready to defend the planet for an alien invasion.

Bilibili’s adaptation is the primary of a bigger initiative known as the Three-Body Global Creator Project. Per the press release, animation studios the world over are permitted to discover the Remembrance franchise to showcase its world potential via varied artwork and animation types. Said Liu in that press launch, “Animation, like science fiction, is the art of imagination. Imagination is humanity’s most powerful force. I believe in the world of animation, a sci-fi story like The Three-Body Problem can really come alive.”

And if animation or Netflix aren’t your bag, Tencent Video has made a reside motion model of The Three-Body Problem, although that model has but to obtain a launch date.

[by way of AWN and TechNode]

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