In a challenge bringing collectively a number of Sony companies, Crunchyroll introduced a brand new anime collection tailored from Sucker Punch Productions’ fashionable “Ghost of Tsushima” online game and its “Legends” cooperative multiplayer expertise.
The collection is slated to premiere solely on Crunchyroll in 2027. The announcement was made as a part of Sony’s 2025 CES press convention in Las Vegas.
The “Ghost of Tsushima” anime will probably be produced in collaboration with Aniplex, the Sony-owned studio behind anime collection comparable to “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba,” “Solo Leveling” and “Sword Artwork On-line.” The variation will probably be helmed by director Takanobu Mizuno, with Gen Urobuchi (“Nitro Plus”) for story composition and animation by Kamikaze Douga. The staff will deliver the standard samurai aesthetics of “Ghost of Tsushima: Legends” to life “with cinematic storytelling and hanging visuals,” based on Crunchyroll. Sony Music will function the strategic music and soundtrack accomplice for the collection. Extra particulars, together with the inventive staff and solid, are but to be introduced.
The “Ghost of Tsushima” recreation, developed by Sony Interactive Leisure-owned Sucker Punch Productions, is an open-world action-adventure title set in feudal Japan. Since its debut in 2020, the sport has bought greater than 13 million copies globally throughout console and PC. Its “Legends” cooperative multiplayer expertise is impressed by Japanese folktales and mythology. Final fall, Sucker Punch introduced a sequel to “Ghost of Tsushima,” titled “Ghost of Yōtei,” which is slated to debut in 2025 and follows a brand new protagonist, Atsu, with an entire new storyline.
Rahul Purini, president of Crunchyroll, stated in a press release, “This challenge is a testomony to the inventive synergy inside the Sony household, uniting the experience of PlayStation Studios and PlayStation Productions; the inventive staff of Sucker Punch Productions and Aniplex; Sony Music’s iconic world artist roster; and Crunchyroll’s fan-first world advertising and marketing and distribution footprint. The ‘Ghost of Tsushima’ anime will provide followers an thrilling new approach to expertise the sport in an anime type that will probably be daring and groundbreaking.”
Asad Qizilbash, head of PlayStation Productions, commented: “Having already confirmed the immense high quality and flexibility of our gaming properties throughout a number of profitable movie and tv tasks, we couldn’t be extra excited to announce our first ever anime adaptation. ‘Ghost of Tsushima’s wealthy, immersive world and its fantastical Legends mode based mostly on Japanese mythology present the right canvas for this challenge, and Aniplex is the right accomplice to translate Sucker Punch Productions’ hit online game into a surprising new anime collection.”
PlayStation Productions was fashioned in 2019 to adapt PlayStation franchises for TV and movie in collaboration with Sony Photos Leisure. So far, PlayStation Productions has been a part of the event of a number of tasks, together with feature-length movies based mostly on “Uncharted” and “Gran Turismo” and TV collection based mostly on “Twisted Steel” and “The Final of Us.”
Additionally Monday, Crunchyroll introduced a brand new app for digital manga as a part of a brand new premium subscription choice. The brand new app, Crunchyroll Manga, will launch later this yr as a standalone app on iOS and Android, debuting within the U.S. and Canada. Designed to enhance Crunchyroll memberships, the app will probably be provided as a premium add-on, with net browser integration additionally deliberate for the longer term.
With Crunchyroll Manga, followers will be capable to learn new and traditional titles from a number of high publishers multi function place, the corporate stated. Manga on Crunchyroll Manga will debut in English with the aim of accelerating language choices because the app expands equally to Crunchyroll’s streaming service.
“Crunchyroll Manga will probably be a premiere on-line manga app that carries catalogs from famend publishers, providing followers unparalleled entry to the visionary works that encourage the anime we love,” Purini stated. “As we strengthen partnerships on this thrilling new enterprise, we goal so as to add much more worth to the Crunchyroll membership, complementing our huge anime library, Crunchyroll Sport Vault, and intensive number of merchandise within the Crunchyroll Retailer.”
Final summer time, Sony introduced that Crunchyroll topped 15 million month-to-month subscribers. Crunchyroll is a three way partnership between U.S.-based Sony Photos Leisure and Japan’s Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Leisure (Japan), each subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group.