Shenmue: The Animation Gets New Trailers Ahead Of February Release
Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki will get to see the fruits of his labor as executive producer in Shenmue: The Animation soon enough, as a couple of freshly released trailers revealed the anime will be out by the first week of February.
Since it was first announced in 2020 and then confirmed to be an early 2022 release, thus quelling fans fears that the Shenmue anime could take as much to put together as Shenmue 3. However, with the latter being the Epic Games store’s first free mystery game these past holidays and the first two entries in the franchise usually going up for sale on steam, it’s possible Shenmue could have picked up a few more fans since the first trailer was dropped by Adult Swim three months ago.
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Contrary to that first preview, the new English trailer posted by Adult Swim solely focuses on events that take place in the first Shenmue game, with the murder of Iwao Hazuki in front of his son Ryo setting up the entire plot for the show. The Shenmue anime will premiere on February 5 and will run for 13 episodes, at least for now, since Suzuki has hinted in the past animation could be a proper outlet to finish the Shenmue story.
While Adult Swim will handle the anime’s distribution for its English dubbed version, Crunchyroll will do the same on a worldwide basis, except for Japan, meaning its own YouTube channel uploaded the Japanese version of the trailer. Unlike the English preview, the Japanese trailer features plenty of forklift action and even Ryo at the arcade, a couple of open world game tropes that will undoubtedly ring a bell for fans of the games.
It’s entirely possible the Shenmue anime could extend itself beyond just one
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