Shenmue The Animation Announces, First Information on the Anime Series

Shenmue fans had known for days, thanks to an insider, that something was brewing around their fetish series. And we now know what this something is. As you might expect, this is a long way from Shenmue IV.

Video service on demand Crunchyroll announced last night during its Virtual Crunchyroll Expo that Shenmue: The Animation

is currently in production in collaboration with Adult Swim and will be released soon. A first image of this series is available in our gallery below.

Behind this title is an anime series for the moment consists of 13 episodes directed by Chikara Sakurai (season 2 of One Punch Man) and animated by the Japanese studio Telecom Animation Film

(Japanese studio specializing in subcontracting for other studios also behind productions such as Lupine III: The Tomb of Daisuke Jigen or Tower of god). Yu Suzuki, for his part, will act as executive producer on this project.

It is not yet known what exactly will Shenmue: The Animation and its release date have not been announced. According to “Dusk Golem

,“the insider who teased this ad first, these 13 episodes would mainly focus on the events of Shenmue and part of Shenmue II. According to him, this series would contain many story elements that had to be removed from the game for reasons of “budget, time, or classification. “ According to him Shenmue: The Animation will be a series intended for an adult audience.