Onimusha Anime Is Fine And Dandy, But I'd Really Like A Reboot At This Point
Netflix is making an Onimusha anime. I know I don’t pay attention at the best of times, but this has caught me by surprise. Aside from remasters of inferior games in the series, we haven’t seen a new entry from Capcom in over a decade. Much like Dino Crisis, Haunting Ground, and the majority of franchises that aren’t Resident Evil or Monster Hunter, it has been left behind to rot. Onimusha deserves this adaptation, but it deserves a new game even more so. In a new era filled with samurai games, the king deserves a spot at the table.
The show has a stunning level of talent behind it, and seems to be making use of polarising 3D animation in ways that aren’t especially jarring. If anything, it will likely make epic set pieces and bloody displays of violence all the more appealing. With only four screenshots available right now and no sign of a release date, it’s impossible to tell what sort of story it plans to tell and how faithful it will be to the games. It seems to be more in line with Castlevania than a direct translation, meaning that characters, storylines, and settings will be completely reimagined. That’s for the best, but I will miss what so easily could have been. Imagine if this was a game, or a love letter to PS2 classics that time has forgotten.
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Onimusha: Warlords came to the PS2 in 2001, and was the birth of a series Capcom would invest heavily in throughout the sixth generation. We saw multiple sequels, spin-offs, and a serious approach to this property that had me thinking it was going to be something more. I was so wrong, and a remaster of Warlords is the only peep we’ve heard from the shogun aside from the upcoming anime in
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