{"id":11107,"date":"2020-09-04T17:30:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T00:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=11107"},"modified":"2024-09-13T23:43:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T06:43:21","slug":"crunchyroll-and-adult-swim-to-produce-shenmue-anime-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2020\/09\/04\/crunchyroll-and-adult-swim-to-produce-shenmue-anime-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunchyroll and Adult Swim To Produce Shenmue Anime Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Crunchyroll and Adult Swim Productions announced their co-production of a new original anime series based on the SEGA game franchise, <em>Shenmue<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The 13-episode anime series will stream worldwide outside of Japan and China on Crunchyroll, and will broadcast on Adult Swim&#8217;s Toonami in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Sakurai Chikara will direct the series with animation production by Telecom Animation Film, and production management provided by Sola Entertainment. Video game creator Yu Suzuki is also onboard as an Executive Producer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11109\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2020\/09\/04\/crunchyroll-and-adult-swim-to-produce-shenmue-anime-series\/shenmue-key-art\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Shenmue-key-art.png?fit=842%2C1191&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"842,1191\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Shenmue-key-art\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Shenmue-key-art.png?fit=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Shenmue-key-art.png?fit=696%2C984&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Shenmue-key-art.png?fit=696%2C984&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11109\" width=\"200\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Shenmue-key-art.png?resize=324%2C400&amp;ssl=1 324w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Shenmue-key-art.png?zoom=2&amp;resize=200%2C246&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Shenmue-key-art.png?zoom=3&amp;resize=200%2C246&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The series is described as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>&#8230;Following the journey of Ryo Hazuki. After he witnesses his father\u2019s murder at the family dojo, Ryo dedicates his life to finding the man responsible &#8211; a mission that takes him from the streets of Yokosuka, Japan to the sprawling metropolis of Hong Kong, and beyond. Soon he&#8217;ll learn that larger, mystical forces are at play as he trains to become the ultimate martial artist in his quest for revenge.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Source: email correspondence<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crunchyroll and Adult Swim Productions announced their co-production of a new original anime series based on the SEGA game franchise, Shenmue. The 13-episode anime series will stream worldwide outside of Japan and China on Crunchyroll, and will broadcast on Adult Swim&#8217;s Toonami in the United States. Sakurai Chikara will direct the series with animation production [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[78,1238],"class_list":["post-11107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-crunchyroll","tag-shenmue"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Shenmue-Feature-Image.png?fit=842%2C473&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-2T9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11107"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26614,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107\/revisions\/26614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}