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Mighty No. 9 Gets CG-Animated Series
posted on by Karen Ressler
Video game producer Keiji Inafune hosted a panel at Anime Expo on Saturday which announced that his upcoming game Mighty No. 9 will get an animated series adaptation. Tokyo-based animation company Digital Frontier is developing the series for a worldwide market. The panel included a trailer:
The official YouTube channel for Mighty No. 9: The Animated Series describes the story:
The story focuses on BECK, a weak transforming combat robot, who was made to fight in a combat robot league as a part of the MIGHTY NUMBERS, the strongest robots in the world. When Beck is the only robot spared from a virus that forces his teammates to destroy mankind, he has to find a way to overcome his own inadequacies so that he can stop them.
Inafune (Megaman) and his company raised over US$3.5 million in its crowdfunding campaign for the game in October. The side-scrolling adventure will be released in Spring 2015 for PlayStation Vita, Nintendo 3DS, PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
Alongside Inafune, Naoya Tomita (Mega Man level design, Mega Man 2 stages, Mega Man 5 & 8 character designs) will be designing the game, and Takenori Kimoto a.k.a. "Kimo Kimo" (Darkstalkers 3, Vampire Hunter 2 character design) is designing the characters. Original Mega Man soundtrack composer Manami Matsumae will be providing the music.
In addition to the game, Inafune is in talks with Contradiction Films writer and producer Tim Carter for a possible Mighty No. 9 live-action adaptation.
[Via pKjd]
