Mass Effect anime scheduled for 2012

[Spatial]

I'm all over this!

BioWare, a division of leading video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. and FUNimation Entertainment, the leading distributor of Japanese animation in North America, announced today an agreement to create an anime feature film adapted from one of the video game industry’s most revered franchises, Mass Effect™. Tokyo-based anime and international feature film production company T.O Entertainment, Inc. has signed on as a co-producer on the video. Based on the Mass Effect universe, the anime video will tell the tale of an epic science fiction adventure set in a vast universe filled with dangerous alien life and mysterious, uncharted planets.

Casey Hudson of BioWare, executive producer of the Mass Effect series, will serve as executive producer on the film, along with FUNimation President and CEO Gen Fukunaga and Director of Original Entertainment Chris Moujaes and T.O Entertainment’s CEO Takeichi Honda and Yui Shibata.



"Over the last few years, we have revealed different pieces of the Mass Effect world through different media. Extending the story through an anime medium is another amazing opportunity for us,” said Casey Hudson, Executive Producer for the Mass Effect series. "Partnering with FUNimation ensures that we will bring this rich universe to life with the utmost quality and the same attention to detail that the Mass Effect games are known for.”
"It is thanks to the enormous and passionate Mass Effect fan base that this movie is made possible," said Gen Fukunaga, President & CEO of FUNimation. “With production underway on the Dragon Age video, we are excited to team up with another BioWare team to add an exciting new chapter to this vast sci-fi world.”

Production of the Mass Effect anime movie has already begun. Digital and home video releases are scheduled for the summer of 2012.

[Neon Ignition]

If this uses male Shepherd (which it will) then like Banatine 'I'm Oot'

Can't imagine this'll be any good.

[Spatial]

Oh I dunno, I quite liked the ones EA helped put together for Dead Space (although I'm not sure who animated those?). And I love ME much more than I love even Dead Space

I'd be willing to bet this won't have Sheppard in it, it'll be about the Turian / Human war.

[Flabio]

Jen Hale as Fem Shep or GTFO.

[SuperBeatBoy]

I reckon it won't even feature Sheppard at all. They will just tell stories about the each individual member of the crew, referring to Sheppard in the past tense. I thought the Dead Space animes were total shizer. I don't have much hope for this.

[mekanor]

This is the best day of my life

[briareos_kerensky]

Tell me that this is some sort of delayed and twisted April's Fool please...

[fuse]

I'm sure I've read & heard countless comments from Bioware staffers saying that Shepard is meant to be the player; can't see them dropping him in as a main character in any kind of spin off, just like with the books.

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This is the best day of my life

Surely not dude... You'd be much happier having a copy of the blu ray in your hands in anticipation of the goodness im sure

I do enjoy these lil spin off animations of video games, I find them more immersive and enjoyable than the live action movies Yes I am looking at you Tekken and King of the fighters... Uhh...

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