It's amazing how they seem to be keeping the Shenmue story to the letter. My assumption was that the anime would take Shenmue as a rough framework of ideas but that they'd go off and do their own thing with it; instead we have Heartbeats bar, the sword handguard, Master Chen, the same playful/adversarial relationship with Guizhang, hints of the mystery of the mirrors, Terry, Chai, the whole lot! Not bad for a clip lasting barely a minute! I can't wait to see how Ren will have turned out. I love that in the section where Ryo is walking through town (0:38) saying Ore no mokuteki wa... – My goal... – We almost get a sense of that feeling we have in the games where Ryo is going from place to place in search of clues. Incredible they managed to capture that (or a case of me massively projecting my own memories onto this perhaps! )
Either way I just can't WAIT to see this. As a fan it's going to be fascinating seeing how the story is fleshed out and how it may even take us beyond what we know! I'll be posting this to all my anime fan friends far and wide!
Either way I just can't WAIT to see this. As a fan it's going to be fascinating seeing how the story is fleshed out and how it may even take us beyond what we know! I'll be posting this to all my anime fan friends far and wide!