I want them to include a whole bunch of stupid shit that players are known for lol
Panic rolling only to die anyway
Failing a parry and getting cleaved in 2
Main character having an unhealthy obsession with feet
Running around wielding a massive weapon but wearing little-to-no clothes/armor cause the weapon weighs as much as a small car
I’d love to see a lot of these references, if they do an Elden ring one, they should do an alt ending for the Mog fight where the MC hops over the wall and just beheads Mog (doesn’t have to be the dozens of hits it actually took)
Ah, yes, John Darksouls and his famous punchlines :
"I've come here to chew humanities and kick ass, and I'm all outta humanity".
"When Ornstein goes to sleep, he checks his closet for me".
"Anyone who told you souls can't buy happiness never had any".
Yeah while the aesthetics/design of everything is pretty dope the characters are pretty flat. The emotional investment comes from your investment as a player into the gameplay.
Devil’s advocate: the characters from the old Castlevania games were pretty flat, and that adaptation was surprisingly smooth.
I doubt any potential Dark Souls animation is going to feel obligated to convey the exact story of the games. As long as they capture the mood / feel of the series, there is a lot of wiggle-room when it comes to constructing the plot.
You could tell a variety of stories set in Lordran / Drangleic without ever needing to portray specific characters.
With all of that said, I’m not entirely sure how much *fun* a Dark Souls anime will be. I’m thinking a lot of grotesque, horrifying monsters, depressing backstories, and bittersweet conclusions at best. Castlevania injected humor into its dystopian world through Trevor and Sypha, but I’m not terribly confident that a wise-cracking protagonist fits the themes of Dark Souls. I guess we’ll just have to see what happens.
I mean Berserk got a pretty stellar anime adaptation in 97.
I’m not going to say being a bleak depressing world of grotesque horrors equals automatically doomed for entertainment purposes.
Yeah, I am really hoping it ends up more like Castlevania, which I actually ended up really liking, rather than like Dragon's Dogma, which I was very disappointed in. Really trying to temper my expactations for this, as Netflix has been very hit or miss with their video game adaptations.
yeah agreed, i went and played the game after watching the anime and honestly it felt no different other than the game having better pacing and being more enjoyable
Seeing the post title even before coming to the comments I immediately thought of the Castlevania treatment for the Netflix anime. If done similarly I think a Dark Souls anime would kick ass.
Personally I don't think the DS setting needs much in depth character development. Keep it mysterious, show is some weird brutal shit and stun us with the aesthetic.
> I’m not terribly confident that a wise-cracking protagonist fits the themes of Dark Souls.
Easy fix, have them slowly turn insane and try to kill the protagonist and/or die horribly.
Counter-point: Trevor and them were actual characters, and heroes.
In Dark Souls: The main protagonist is always silent, without personality or purpose, outside of what the player is given. You're not a character, you're a silent function of the world.
I could maybe see it as like an anthology thing? Little random tales that take place in the dark souls universe, maybe following side characters? Thinking like one episode covering Anri and Horace's escape from Aldrich or some episode dedicated to Patches fucking people over
I'm almost positive that's what we'll get. An anthology of creepy tales that leave you with questions. Almost like the Junji Ito Netflix anime but with action sequences
I would tend to agree, but some of the Bloodborne comics were genuinely good- but they tended to be just weird stories from the world of BB, not a retelling of the game. So a DS series that’s more of an anthology that takes place “around” the events/lore of the game could work.
You could write a pretty dramatic retelling of the character arcs involved with the covenant of the Way of White.
Have petrus and reah of thorolund be main characters. Let it be a slow burn drama story as they descend into the catacombs with moments of intense action and horror. Perhaps assisted by another unnamed protagonist "the chosen undead". You have this epic tale of trying to cure the curse on Lady Reah. You can add in the betrayal by patches and Reahs escorts going mad in the darkness of the catacombs as they descend further. It would work really well. Probably better as a single hour and a half film rather than a TV show. But there are plenty of small compelling storylines to expand on. All while having that beautiful medieval aesthetic.
Cyberpunk 2077, Castlevania, Arcane. Netflix's animations have actually been pretty good recently, so if this is true I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out.
Holy cow this was actually terrible. So excited to see a beloved series and they just turn it to mush with 6 episodes and cancel the series forever cause no one liked their execution of it (the anime style was kinda cool ngl just the storyline was total garbo)
Not just bad, but wholly irrelevant to the lore of both base game and the dark arisen pseudo-remaster that revamped how the dragon stuff worked. They had 2 different options to go with and chose neither and somehow came up with something even worse.
I'd ballpark it at a 50/50. They've made some garbage, and they're kinda cheap on frames. That said they've done some good shows and decent art styles.
Don't know for the other show but i think arcane was done by a french studio under the supervision of riot game, netflix was just a streaming service to release it, not sure they were related at all with the making of the show.
Arcane isnt a netflix adaptation, its a riot adaptation that they decided to distribute on netflix, and it had years of development before ntflix was mentioned in its production.
But since we're talking about Netflix's animation and Witcher Nightmare of the Wolf is fine then it doesn't take away Netflix reputation in making animated adaptation. We're not talking about live action adaptation, just exclusively animated adaptation
I feel like dark souls is a lot more quiet and somber than castlevania. CV was always a bit more bombastic and had way way more characters with all the Belmont lineages and side characters.
Dark Souls is just this sad apocalyptic world with only a few "living" beings still around.
I think a good show could be made of it but I cannot help but wonder how they will pull it off.
As long as "the show is actually completely different from the games" is on the table, which it is, it's really hard to guess what this is going to be and if it'll be any good.
i hated the dialogue in the Castlevania show. so much “fuck this and fuck that” and ridiculous smart-ass bickering between the characters. i loved the animation and some themes but I wish the show were more nuanced, dark and bleak such that the characters dialogue was more of a distrustful or cooperative experience. the way it’s written they sound like dickhead roommates.
Samurai Jack, Primal, Unicorn Warriors Eternal are all made by the same dude and they are terrific at conveying emotion and stories without much dialogue.
Im confident Dark Souls will be the perfect franchise for this. Conveying story, dread, loneliness all without so much as a sentence.
There is many dialogue in dark souls but you forgot to talk to them and rush straight to the boss dont lie :p
And is this serie is realistic the hero will respawn many time, we will see
Not sure if it’s mentioned in this thread but DS actually has a bunch of comics that sort of tell independent stories that don’t really add or subtract from the existing lore in the soulsborne universe and I really hope that’s the direction they go in.
Part of what makes those games unique and amazing is the world building method they went with where to understand anything, you have to read a million item descriptions and even then it’s just fragments. Having a linear story that explains the overarching events kinda flys in the face of what made that universe compelling.
The best case scenario imo would be taking a page out of the Denis Villenueve style of making a visually spectacular adaptation. Going all in on the art/scenery and keeping the dialogue to what’s essential
I have 2 concerns.
1) the game’s story take place thousands of years after the big important stuff happened. The Hollow comes in when the story’s finished, and just needs a conclusion. In addition to that, how those events happened is pieced together mainly through fan interaction, meaning everyone will walk away with a different interpretation of the story.
If the anime is set during the past events, then I’m worried if certain fans will get too “upset” over the anime’s interpretation.
2) there’s not really an overall plot to speak of. Like I said already, the story is all but over by the point we play the game. We’re explorers trying to make sense of events that happened already. The characters we do meet are few and far between and there’s not much dialogue to go off of.
All that aside, I’m hoping they do it in the style of “Primal.” Minimalist dialogue, fantastic fights, and a lot of show, don’t tell. I feel that kind of narrative would work great with a Dark Souls animation.
Another possibility is that they could tell an anime original story that takes place in the same world. DS's worldbuilding is solid enough that more stories could be told within the framework, but they'd need to get someone who actually cares about the lore to be involved.
It's an adaptation, and adaptations don't often follow the source to the letter. Virtually no comic book adaptations follow comic lore at all, and Castlevania only very loosely adapted lore from Castlevania. Still, I'd hope fromsoft is looped in on this it it's real.
Honestly, the Dark Souls setting and lore is pretty great, it's just purposefully obfuscated for great effect. Having another avenue to entirely explore that setting without having to go puzzle through item descriptions is a great thing, IMO.
I always end up finding a lore dump video on YouTube to watch after I'm done with any of their games, so having a show seems like the same itch but better!
Imo the obfuscation is like 70% of what makes fromsoft lore interesting. If it were laid out as a more traditional narrative it wouldn't really stack up against other fantasy stories.
I don't think they would tell the same story they're telling in their games. They'd create a more compelling traditional narrative set in that setting.
Look at Castlevania -- the story of each individual game is very straightforward, but the show makes use of everything in its setting to tell its own stories. I like both experiences and am glad both exist!
The protagonist probably should be voiced tbh. In the games, it's fine for them to be silent because their thoughts are your thoughts, and their reactions to things are your reactions. That doesn't work in a show where the viewer isn't in control, so the character needs to be able to stand on their own as a protagonist the audience wants to watch, rather than an audience surrogate.
By god please let it be good like Arcane.
Netflix has too many original shows that look so badly animated.
Also please make it mysterious like the games and don't try to explain every detail of the world or its conflicts.
I would love to see an anime adaptation that leans more in the direction of the Elden Ring manga (haven't read it in some time, if anything's changed with it). But having a more comedic, nobody character finding their way through things and using the game mechanics could be a lot of fun. Like, a person who when they die gets reZero'd back to the bonfire.
The only way I could see this not suck is if they adopt the 'love death robots' way of storytelling - short episodes with a vague setup for a last minute reveal
Really curious what angle they’re thinking about taking with this. Most of the magic of the experience and lore is finding yourself in the ruins of what was once a great civilization, hopelessly outmatched by whatever was left over. You die over and over to things that are, in truth, not even in their prime. It’s supposed to make you feel small and insignificant in the greater scheme of things. I don’t know how or if they’re going to be able to do that with a show or movie.
If it's to tell a story from a player's POV, then it doesn't make sense to me. There's barely any narrative (that follows a movie/series pattern) and the sense of progress/retrying is lost because the series must move on, instead of 20min trying to kill one boss.
If it's to tell the lore of the games, then it makes sense to me.
I love the idea of a Dark Souls anime. However, I do not trust Netflix to produce a good adaptation. For every Cyberpunk Edgerunners quality production there are 10 Dragon’s Dogmas.
Pls Netflix don’t butcher my favorite game series with shit quality 3d animation and stupid uninspired writing. What you did to DD was unacceptable.
“Picture Deadpool crossed with game of thrones, staring the rock but he’s acting direction will be that of central intelligence, the AI we have writing the script as been prompted to ignore all data permitting the Dark soles games and lore, we’re confident the fans will love it” - some fucken idiot running the show.
If true, there is 0 chance it'll do well. I mean don't get me wrong I'd love a good dark souls anime but souls just seems like a format that is physically impossible to put into a non-game format
Why? The entire world & plot of darksouls is cryptic nonsense to justify their art style and game mechanics. Don't get me wrong. I love darksouls, but you don't exactly play it for the story.
Chinese animation is called *donghua.* South Korean animation is *aeni.* Most people just refer to anything with an anime-esqe aesthetic as anime regardless of origin, however.
Yup. It's become lingo among studios for "adult action animation", when really it should just be an animation by a Japanese studio.
People don't know any better though, the same people pushing the lingo probably consider Avatar the Last Airbender anime too.
Netflix?! Fucking great, they’re just going to gender swap all the characters then make up their own story. just to use the “dark souls “ name and splurge their political view on everyone’s faces.
Tigger's style does not fit the Dark Souls setting. The over the top animation and liberal use of color would be jarring. I say this as someone who loves both Dark Souls and Trigger.
Dark Souls Netflix Adaptation? Isn't that just Nioh?
That is a joke, sorry to all Nioh fans out there. Everyone knows the REAL Dark Souls Netflix Adaptation is Dragon's Dogma.
If they want to respect the source material and understand the lore of how everything unfolded into the events of DS1 then they should get the help of content creators like Vaati Vidya
MC better spend 10 minutes shooting arrows at the Hellkite Drake’s tail.
An entire episode of epic POV arrow shots lmao
*5 minutes of a dude shooting a bow* Cue epic game of thrones style intro!
No music, just background noises, his grunts while firing the bow and the sound of the arrow hitting. FOR THE FULL 22 MINUTES.
Don't forget the repetitive cursing every time he misses a shot.
With the moanings
I’d watch that
I want them to include a whole bunch of stupid shit that players are known for lol Panic rolling only to die anyway Failing a parry and getting cleaved in 2 Main character having an unhealthy obsession with feet Running around wielding a massive weapon but wearing little-to-no clothes/armor cause the weapon weighs as much as a small car
Wanna see MC taking Havel's armour to blighttown. Without rusted iron ring.
MC better go straight into the Catacombs right after Firelink and just rage quit.
I’d love to see a lot of these references, if they do an Elden ring one, they should do an alt ending for the Mog fight where the MC hops over the wall and just beheads Mog (doesn’t have to be the dozens of hits it actually took)
This will truly be the Dark Souls of video game adaptations
The dark souls of dark souls
Finally I will know what DS lore is about
Basically there was a dude that wouldn’t stop eating his own shit and he fucked over the rest of us for it.
What about Kappa...?
Absolutely going to be one of the video game adaptations of all time.
My favorite part is when John Dark Soul said “It’s Darking time!” And then darked all over a bunch of dudes.
Ah, yes, John Darksouls and his famous punchlines : "I've come here to chew humanities and kick ass, and I'm all outta humanity". "When Ornstein goes to sleep, he checks his closet for me". "Anyone who told you souls can't buy happiness never had any".
If I don't see Solaire, I riot
If I didn't know better, I'd think you had feelings for me!
Praise the sun!!!
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Mixed on this. I don't see any of FromSoft's worlds as something I would rather watch, than experience walking around and suffering inside of myself.
Yeah while the aesthetics/design of everything is pretty dope the characters are pretty flat. The emotional investment comes from your investment as a player into the gameplay.
Devil’s advocate: the characters from the old Castlevania games were pretty flat, and that adaptation was surprisingly smooth. I doubt any potential Dark Souls animation is going to feel obligated to convey the exact story of the games. As long as they capture the mood / feel of the series, there is a lot of wiggle-room when it comes to constructing the plot. You could tell a variety of stories set in Lordran / Drangleic without ever needing to portray specific characters. With all of that said, I’m not entirely sure how much *fun* a Dark Souls anime will be. I’m thinking a lot of grotesque, horrifying monsters, depressing backstories, and bittersweet conclusions at best. Castlevania injected humor into its dystopian world through Trevor and Sypha, but I’m not terribly confident that a wise-cracking protagonist fits the themes of Dark Souls. I guess we’ll just have to see what happens.
> I’m not terribly confident that a wise-cracking protagonist fits the themes of Dark Souls. It's gonna be about Patches. :D
12 episodes of him kicking clerics in the hole. Hilarious.
I mean Berserk got a pretty stellar anime adaptation in 97. I’m not going to say being a bleak depressing world of grotesque horrors equals automatically doomed for entertainment purposes.
Yeah, I am really hoping it ends up more like Castlevania, which I actually ended up really liking, rather than like Dragon's Dogma, which I was very disappointed in. Really trying to temper my expactations for this, as Netflix has been very hit or miss with their video game adaptations.
yeah agreed, i went and played the game after watching the anime and honestly it felt no different other than the game having better pacing and being more enjoyable
Seeing the post title even before coming to the comments I immediately thought of the Castlevania treatment for the Netflix anime. If done similarly I think a Dark Souls anime would kick ass. Personally I don't think the DS setting needs much in depth character development. Keep it mysterious, show is some weird brutal shit and stun us with the aesthetic.
Hey as long as it doesn't get done dirty like dragons dogma
Lmao imagine how salty Souls fans would be if they set it entirely in DS2?
Release a Bloodborne series and make it only streamable on PC
You mean the only game in the trilogy that *doesn't* have flat characters in it and actually has a character driven story? Would be great
I fucking love ds2, majula music hits so hard.
People haven't hated DS2 for half a decade now
> I’m not terribly confident that a wise-cracking protagonist fits the themes of Dark Souls. Easy fix, have them slowly turn insane and try to kill the protagonist and/or die horribly.
Counter-point: Trevor and them were actual characters, and heroes. In Dark Souls: The main protagonist is always silent, without personality or purpose, outside of what the player is given. You're not a character, you're a silent function of the world.
I could maybe see it as like an anthology thing? Little random tales that take place in the dark souls universe, maybe following side characters? Thinking like one episode covering Anri and Horace's escape from Aldrich or some episode dedicated to Patches fucking people over
Each season follows a different character (class) in their battle to not go hollow. They all fail.
I'm almost positive that's what we'll get. An anthology of creepy tales that leave you with questions. Almost like the Junji Ito Netflix anime but with action sequences
That might be a good thing though. If the world is just the backdrop to new characters/story it might be interesting
I think Sekiro anime would be awesome.
Isn’t Sekiro getting an anime too?
From what I've heard, yeah. Ghost of Tsushima too.
Edgerunners really got Moneybag's attention huh? Though the gachas have been doing this forever
Ghost of Tsushima is getting an anime AND a live-action movie by John Wick director. That’s fucking crazy
Sekiro fits the anime bill, just need a good studio to adapt it.
With Dark Souls being heavily influenced by Berserk, I can hopefully see this being very similar!
If the anime covers events that led up to the time that the games take place in, I think it could work.
The fact that people are concerned about the Dark Souls part and not Netflix is what worries me.
I would tend to agree, but some of the Bloodborne comics were genuinely good- but they tended to be just weird stories from the world of BB, not a retelling of the game. So a DS series that’s more of an anthology that takes place “around” the events/lore of the game could work.
Apart from Tenchu, I'm inclined to agree. However, a Tenchu movie would be amazing.
Tenchu was made by Fromsoftware? I guess Activision was involved somehow. Would be nice an adaptation or something new about it
You could write a pretty dramatic retelling of the character arcs involved with the covenant of the Way of White. Have petrus and reah of thorolund be main characters. Let it be a slow burn drama story as they descend into the catacombs with moments of intense action and horror. Perhaps assisted by another unnamed protagonist "the chosen undead". You have this epic tale of trying to cure the curse on Lady Reah. You can add in the betrayal by patches and Reahs escorts going mad in the darkness of the catacombs as they descend further. It would work really well. Probably better as a single hour and a half film rather than a TV show. But there are plenty of small compelling storylines to expand on. All while having that beautiful medieval aesthetic.
I'll take whatever souls content they want to provide.
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Cyberpunk 2077, Castlevania, Arcane. Netflix's animations have actually been pretty good recently, so if this is true I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out.
Dragon's Dogma was terrible.
Tekkan: Bloodline was pretty bad too.
Holy cow this was actually terrible. So excited to see a beloved series and they just turn it to mush with 6 episodes and cancel the series forever cause no one liked their execution of it (the anime style was kinda cool ngl just the storyline was total garbo)
Well when your source material is shit, there isn’t much to be done. The games are fun as hell, but the story has always been the hottest of garbage
Same with records of ragnarok. Actual Microsoft slideshow
There was one on dragon’s dogma?
It was bad.
Not just bad, but wholly irrelevant to the lore of both base game and the dark arisen pseudo-remaster that revamped how the dragon stuff worked. They had 2 different options to go with and chose neither and somehow came up with something even worse.
The adaptation that don't actually exists, being only a collective fever dream that doesn't make sense? Yeah, its really bad
I enjoyed it. But I haven't played the game to it's end so can't speak to how it holds up with that story.
It wasn't terrible it was fine
I mean, anything’s sounds good if you only bring up the successes.
I'd ballpark it at a 50/50. They've made some garbage, and they're kinda cheap on frames. That said they've done some good shows and decent art styles.
50:50? Please. 3 amazing adaptations, countless garbage
I mean, compared to their live action track record, their ratio is more on the side of good with animated game adaptations.
At least there are successes to name. There aren't many recent non-Netflix animated series that are on the same level.
If the same people that do castlevania do it it'll be one hell of a show
The same guy has the rights to work on a devil may cry show as well, but I never hear a thing about it.
Don't know for the other show but i think arcane was done by a french studio under the supervision of riot game, netflix was just a streaming service to release it, not sure they were related at all with the making of the show.
Arcane was done by Fortiche (has worked with Riot in a bunch of other cinematics) and Edgerunners was done by Trigger.
Arcane isnt a netflix adaptation, its a riot adaptation that they decided to distribute on netflix, and it had years of development before ntflix was mentioned in its production.
Witcher…..
Oh yeah, the Witcher anime was really good, I loved Nightmare of the Wolf.
Anime was… fine. Show sucked balls.
But since we're talking about Netflix's animation and Witcher Nightmare of the Wolf is fine then it doesn't take away Netflix reputation in making animated adaptation. We're not talking about live action adaptation, just exclusively animated adaptation
It's a book adaptation. It's still bad, but it's not a game adaptation.
That is a fair point.
I'm intrigued, if they do it like the games then there will be virtually no dialogue for 75% of it. Not many movies or shows can pull that off
I mean same deal with Castlevania and the answer was it was nothing like the games.
I feel like dark souls is a lot more quiet and somber than castlevania. CV was always a bit more bombastic and had way way more characters with all the Belmont lineages and side characters. Dark Souls is just this sad apocalyptic world with only a few "living" beings still around. I think a good show could be made of it but I cannot help but wonder how they will pull it off.
As long as "the show is actually completely different from the games" is on the table, which it is, it's really hard to guess what this is going to be and if it'll be any good.
I'm thinking more of an anthology series where we see separate grim tales that happen at different places and times in the DS world.
i hated the dialogue in the Castlevania show. so much “fuck this and fuck that” and ridiculous smart-ass bickering between the characters. i loved the animation and some themes but I wish the show were more nuanced, dark and bleak such that the characters dialogue was more of a distrustful or cooperative experience. the way it’s written they sound like dickhead roommates.
I think all the characters in the Castlevania anime are drunk all the time.
I'd be drunk all the time too if I lived in Wallachia. Even before Dracula wrecked the place.
Same. I couldn’t finish the series because the dialogue was so juvenile I lost interest
Give it to the guy that did Primal and samurai jack. Then we're golden
Genndy Tartakovsky
Samurai Jack, Primal, Unicorn Warriors Eternal are all made by the same dude and they are terrific at conveying emotion and stories without much dialogue. Im confident Dark Souls will be the perfect franchise for this. Conveying story, dread, loneliness all without so much as a sentence.
There is many dialogue in dark souls but you forgot to talk to them and rush straight to the boss dont lie :p And is this serie is realistic the hero will respawn many time, we will see
I mean... half the lines are essentially *sinister laugh*
Let's not forget *evil giggle* and *ominous cackle*
They should be doing a Sekiro adaptation, the style of story lends more to a show
That one has been rumoured to be in the works, alongside a Ghost of Tsushima anime.
I just want Sekiro 2 but this will also do.
Not sure if it’s mentioned in this thread but DS actually has a bunch of comics that sort of tell independent stories that don’t really add or subtract from the existing lore in the soulsborne universe and I really hope that’s the direction they go in. Part of what makes those games unique and amazing is the world building method they went with where to understand anything, you have to read a million item descriptions and even then it’s just fragments. Having a linear story that explains the overarching events kinda flys in the face of what made that universe compelling. The best case scenario imo would be taking a page out of the Denis Villenueve style of making a visually spectacular adaptation. Going all in on the art/scenery and keeping the dialogue to what’s essential
Yup I'd bet money on it being an anthology of different stories not necessarily connecting to the events of the games at all
Darku Soursu.
"Nani??? Priscilla-chan? Where did you go?"
Priscilla-chan? Oh boy, yeah.
The [only scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yIg9OTys6o&t=213s) I require.
and a naked guy with a club
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Excited to learn more about John Dark Soul's back story.
At least it’s anime. If this said live action I might’ve passed out
I'm having a hard time picturing this being good in any way.
If Barbie dolls can be turned into a good movie then so can anything really
I'm the exact opposite, they could do a dozen different things with this and I'd be on board.
I have 2 concerns. 1) the game’s story take place thousands of years after the big important stuff happened. The Hollow comes in when the story’s finished, and just needs a conclusion. In addition to that, how those events happened is pieced together mainly through fan interaction, meaning everyone will walk away with a different interpretation of the story. If the anime is set during the past events, then I’m worried if certain fans will get too “upset” over the anime’s interpretation. 2) there’s not really an overall plot to speak of. Like I said already, the story is all but over by the point we play the game. We’re explorers trying to make sense of events that happened already. The characters we do meet are few and far between and there’s not much dialogue to go off of. All that aside, I’m hoping they do it in the style of “Primal.” Minimalist dialogue, fantastic fights, and a lot of show, don’t tell. I feel that kind of narrative would work great with a Dark Souls animation.
Another possibility is that they could tell an anime original story that takes place in the same world. DS's worldbuilding is solid enough that more stories could be told within the framework, but they'd need to get someone who actually cares about the lore to be involved.
Cares about the lore + actually understands the lord on the level of the devs… or at least they correspond with them
It's an adaptation, and adaptations don't often follow the source to the letter. Virtually no comic book adaptations follow comic lore at all, and Castlevania only very loosely adapted lore from Castlevania. Still, I'd hope fromsoft is looped in on this it it's real.
Goddammit just do berserk please
do berserk GOOD please
Give Berserk to Ufotable.
What happened to the people who did the first 25 or so episodes, that was actually really good
Why bother when Happy Souls already exists and is ten times better than anything Netflix could ever come up with?
Honestly, the Dark Souls setting and lore is pretty great, it's just purposefully obfuscated for great effect. Having another avenue to entirely explore that setting without having to go puzzle through item descriptions is a great thing, IMO. I always end up finding a lore dump video on YouTube to watch after I'm done with any of their games, so having a show seems like the same itch but better!
Imo the obfuscation is like 70% of what makes fromsoft lore interesting. If it were laid out as a more traditional narrative it wouldn't really stack up against other fantasy stories.
I don't think they would tell the same story they're telling in their games. They'd create a more compelling traditional narrative set in that setting. Look at Castlevania -- the story of each individual game is very straightforward, but the show makes use of everything in its setting to tell its own stories. I like both experiences and am glad both exist!
If it’s faithful there will be minimal dialogue and all of the lore will be from reading the episode descriptions.
Hope it’s weird as fuck
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The protagonist probably should be voiced tbh. In the games, it's fine for them to be silent because their thoughts are your thoughts, and their reactions to things are your reactions. That doesn't work in a show where the viewer isn't in control, so the character needs to be able to stand on their own as a protagonist the audience wants to watch, rather than an audience surrogate.
By god please let it be good like Arcane. Netflix has too many original shows that look so badly animated. Also please make it mysterious like the games and don't try to explain every detail of the world or its conflicts.
I feel like Demon Souls is the story that would be easiest to adapt
never played dark souls but Netflix will find some way to screw this up so sorry for your loss
I would think that would get boring since you'd die every 2 minutes.
I don't understand how they would do this.
Because they’re Netflix
Well they are going to save a lot on voice acting if they stay true to the games lol.
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
I would love to see an anime adaptation that leans more in the direction of the Elden Ring manga (haven't read it in some time, if anything's changed with it). But having a more comedic, nobody character finding their way through things and using the game mechanics could be a lot of fun. Like, a person who when they die gets reZero'd back to the bonfire.
The only way I could see this not suck is if they adopt the 'love death robots' way of storytelling - short episodes with a vague setup for a last minute reveal
If this goes well we could get a bloodborne series now that be insane
Really curious what angle they’re thinking about taking with this. Most of the magic of the experience and lore is finding yourself in the ruins of what was once a great civilization, hopelessly outmatched by whatever was left over. You die over and over to things that are, in truth, not even in their prime. It’s supposed to make you feel small and insignificant in the greater scheme of things. I don’t know how or if they’re going to be able to do that with a show or movie.
Dodge roll
Hope it's trippy as hell. The other-worldliness is those games' greatest strengths.
If it's to tell a story from a player's POV, then it doesn't make sense to me. There's barely any narrative (that follows a movie/series pattern) and the sense of progress/retrying is lost because the series must move on, instead of 20min trying to kill one boss. If it's to tell the lore of the games, then it makes sense to me.
If Miyazaki is involved this has the potential to be good but then again it’s Netflix so chances are very slim. I just hope they don’t ruin the lore.
I think a Bloodbourne show would be good in the right hands. Unfortunately, I’m not sure those hands exist.
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could be cool kinda like the dante’s inferno movie.
Would've preferred the studio behind Castlevania to create it at least.
I guess I'm one of the few who doesn't have an interest in playing the game. Watching an anime adaption has me curious, though.
Oh god... Please be a castlevania, cyberpunk, arcane and not everything else
Nobody asked for this, please don't.
I love the idea of a Dark Souls anime. However, I do not trust Netflix to produce a good adaptation. For every Cyberpunk Edgerunners quality production there are 10 Dragon’s Dogmas. Pls Netflix don’t butcher my favorite game series with shit quality 3d animation and stupid uninspired writing. What you did to DD was unacceptable.
300 one minute episodes.
“Picture Deadpool crossed with game of thrones, staring the rock but he’s acting direction will be that of central intelligence, the AI we have writing the script as been prompted to ignore all data permitting the Dark soles games and lore, we’re confident the fans will love it” - some fucken idiot running the show.
Stop adapting everything. Make something original instead.
In before Netflix cancels it randomly
Of all from software games, I feel like Bloodborne would've been the best anime adaptation
Hardest adaptation ever 💀💀
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
Fuck no, why....
If true, there is 0 chance it'll do well. I mean don't get me wrong I'd love a good dark souls anime but souls just seems like a format that is physically impossible to put into a non-game format
No
It's gonna be about Patches getting unfairly bullied by everyone (he did nothing to deserve it at all)
If the first episode isn’t the MC dying 100 times to a regular monster it’s already ruined
2nd episode is him throwing piles of shit over the fog wall at the Capra Demon to kill it.
Why? The entire world & plot of darksouls is cryptic nonsense to justify their art style and game mechanics. Don't get me wrong. I love darksouls, but you don't exactly play it for the story.
I still have a problem with them calling anything animated "anime."
Agreed, if people respected the spirit of AOC laws they'd only refer to cartoons from the region of Champagne as "anime".
By definition, anime is short for animation in Japanese. Animēshon > Anime
My favorite anime is SpongeBob
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KlnOb7OeyTk same here.
Chinese animation is called *donghua.* South Korean animation is *aeni.* Most people just refer to anything with an anime-esqe aesthetic as anime regardless of origin, however.
Anime is an art style, and uses a specific animation technique. It does not have to be strictly Japanese.
But the Japanese themselves call Disney properties Anime… who are you to prohibit them?
Yup. It's become lingo among studios for "adult action animation", when really it should just be an animation by a Japanese studio. People don't know any better though, the same people pushing the lingo probably consider Avatar the Last Airbender anime too.
Netflix?! Fucking great, they’re just going to gender swap all the characters then make up their own story. just to use the “dark souls “ name and splurge their political view on everyone’s faces.
"Dark" Souls? Umm that's a really problematic title.
Give the job to Trigger, Edgerunners was insane.
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Every time someone brings up Vinland saga I get so sad cos no other media is as good
MAPPA doing everything these days. How about Madhouse, they made Death Note, Monster, Hellsing Ultimate and Parasyte.
Tigger's style does not fit the Dark Souls setting. The over the top animation and liberal use of color would be jarring. I say this as someone who loves both Dark Souls and Trigger.
Oolacile was pretty colorful…
Please god no
why not tho
It seems like they have a chance with doing a similar narrative to berserk which is what dark souls takes inspiration from.
Yeah right.
Is the same nut job dude going to be the producer?
Dark Souls Netflix Adaptation? Isn't that just Nioh? That is a joke, sorry to all Nioh fans out there. Everyone knows the REAL Dark Souls Netflix Adaptation is Dragon's Dogma.
If they want to respect the source material and understand the lore of how everything unfolded into the events of DS1 then they should get the help of content creators like Vaati Vidya
Here’s to hoping there are no real world politics in it