Sony spent a long time talking about anime during its CES 2025 press conference today, reminding everyone that it’s all-in on the rapidly growing medium.
While it used most of its time explaining to the audience why anime matters, it also announced a new project: Ghost of Tsushima Legends, inspired by the dark fantasy online multiplayer mode in the Sucker Punch game, from Aniplex and Crunchyroll. The series will air in 2027.
Here’s what the press release reveals: “Takanobu Mizuno (Star Wars: Visions The Duel) will direct the series at Kamikaze Douga, with Gen Urobuchi writing the story composition. The anime will be produced in collaboration with Aniplex, with Sony Music serving as music and soundtrack partner. Additional staff and cast were not announced at the time of the panel.”
Remember, a live action Ghost of Tsushima movie is also in the works from John Wick’s Chad Stahelski.
Are you interested in an anime adaptation of Ghost of Tushima? It seems like a good fit to us, and we’re excited to learn more in the future.
As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He’s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.
The Sony administration talked about having their own anime and tbh they don't need to buy Kadokawa for that, they already have great IP that can be great animes. This is fantastic news I hope they see the potential of Infamous in the future.
A Ghost of Tsushima anime is one of those no-brainer ideas that I'm surprised PlayStation didn't do sooner.
Gen Urobuchi writing it is a big highlight, he is commonly known as Gen Urobutcher due to the bleak stories he writes. Can't wait.
Now this is actually a good idea, unlike 99% of the multimedia crap.
Devs kind of hinted about it months ago when they talked about expanding the
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