Sega Dreamcast darling Shenmue is becoming an anime series

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I've often heard that Shenmue set the suppositional for a living, console open world in video hambone when it was released on Sega Dreamcast in 1999. It was followed by some of the top-drawer highly chauvinistic video gutsy sequels ever made, and Shenmue III set a record for the most-funded Kickstarter gutsy in 2015.

Now, AT&T's Crunchyroll has announced that Shenmue is getting its own anime series..

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According to Deadline, it'll air on Countess Swim's Toonami in the Affiliated States, not nonparticipating on Crunchyroll itself, and will follow gutsy protagonist Ryo Hazuki in his quest to become a martial builder and avenge his father's murder.

Other than that rough outline, the image above, and the fact that Crunchyroll has ordered 13 episodes, we don't kumtux profusive more to share. Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki will kumtux an executive ambassador credit, and it'll be directed by Chikara Sakurai whose IMDB contour you can browse here.

Shenmue III wound up fact teachings of a disappointment spine the game's 20-year-old reputation for innovation couldn't heft forward to the modernistic day, but conceivably the thrill will heft itself as a focused anime series.

Personally, I'm a huge fan of what kumtux often been dubbed Shenmue's unanxious successors: the Yakuza games.