>By Konami Animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27dAass0LRk
>Airing 2026
The director mentioned it's impossible to adapt suikoden 2 within 1 season so he's implying that there will be multiple seasons. Is anyone hyped for Luca Blight?

>>281357574 (OP)
The only it works is if they turn it into legend of galactic heroes : ancient china edition.

>>281357574 (OP)
>108 stars on the visual
Kino

>>281357574 (OP)
>Konami Animation
>A studio with less than 2 years of life
>first anime series will be one of the most unadaptable game of all times
This will either be a trainwreck or a miracle

>>281358003
>unadaptable
The hero tales anime is basically a suikoden adaptation by another name, so the concept is already proven to be doable. The real question is how deep they are willing to go...

>>281358172
>hero tales anime
That's just a lesser Hakkenden.
The problem with Suikoden II is that a videogame can manage a cast one 108 characters that the MC have to recruit and then their individual story can be explored individually, because the player understands that the gameplay requires the other 107 plotlines to be paused while I go and finish this particular quest.
This shit is impossible to do in any other medium without being retarded, unless you have hundreds of episodes where you can spread multiple storylines in parallel with one another while introducing new characters in an organic matter.

>>281358299
So, legend of galactic heroes?

>>281358637
Legend of the Galactic Heroes was quite literally a lightning in a bottle moment.
The project was basically doomed to failure had the first season not sold as well as it did and it needed to sell exceedingly well with every release to maintain the level of quality seen from S2 onwards, alongside its massive cast where basically every VA active at the time had a role in the show.

>>281358637
More or less?
And even then, the narrative in LOGh is easier to adapt because basically all main characters are already in the military and every individual storyline goes along the main narrative drive, the war between Empire and Federation. When some character disappears for a dozen episodes you think "oh, they're working in their military field and doing military stuff".
Suikoden II has a talking unicorn that tests heroes in a forest.
You see the difference?

>>281358832
Yeah, i agree it's absolutely exceptional and the new thesis series shows the sheer difficulty in redoing it. But it does show it's possible, and the standard that can be achieved.

>>281358954
Weirdness only adds to the charm, the key is having a good narrator.

>>281357574 (OP)
shill me on this

>>281357574 (OP)
Did you link the wrong video, OP?

>>281360368
It's a good game with great characters and story.

>>281358832
>>281358954
>i-it doesn't count!!
Every time.

>>281363178
Logh has more of the stories for characters grouped together so covering one of them covers a vast slice of the others at the same time. That's not really comparable to Suikoden's story situation.

>>281358003
>>281357574 (OP)
>>281358172
Half of the 108 don't even matter to the main plot.

>>281363596
Most of the 108 don't even matter to the main plot. Suikoden II is adaptable as long as they don't go for the good ending.

>>281363178
I quite literally explained why it doesn't count.
LotGH is an exception among exceptions. Were it not for so many people buying those initial LDs, ones where the owner of the animation company had to literally beg people to buy more at the end of every single one, it would not be a completed adaptation. It would've ended, much like Kircheis, with Season One.
I'll wait and see what happens, but a Suikoden II adaptation, on paper, is pure insanity.

>They do this right after Murayama died
>will most likely be hot garbage as well
The hatred I feel for Konami cannot be put into words, mortals simply cannot fathom the sheer depth of my anger

>>281363877
It's not. As long as they don't for a good ending.

>>281363897
I am enjoying Eiyuden Heroes. Though I am juggling it with other games. It carries similar flaws to most of it's Suikoden brethen.

With a concept of 108 recruitable characters it's a lose/lose situation regardless of how you handle it.
>Don't include everyone, people will bitch about how it's dogshit cause they didn't manage to fit in all 108 characters/didn't do the good ending not matter how unfeasible it would be
>Try to aim for all 108, there is a high chance the adaptation will be total dogshit anyways and people will bitch about a garbage adaptation
The could probably get away with making characters cameo every now and then, but especially with how they're managing the IP now, with shit like the fucking Suikoden gacha game coming out, there's almost no way this doesn't end in a trainwreck unless they pull a miracle out their ass.

>>281357574 (OP)
>Is anyone hyped for Luca Blight?
Yes. He's my hero.

>>281363906
>As long as they make the whole effort pointless
Suikoden's narrative IS the 108. The good ending IS the ending.

>>281363897
Damn...

>>281357574 (OP)
I hope this succeeds because it would marginally increase the odds of a Xenogears anime getting greenlit

Assuming they're an actual Japanese studio, can they redo Castlevania and actually make it good? The Soma games in particular would work great as an anime but Netflix will just make everyone gay and drone on about "church bad".

>>281368606
I still remember all those years ago, the fucking cuck apologists for Castlevania insisting IT'S NOT SAYING THAT CHRISTIANITY IS BAD IT'S SO BALANCED LOOK AT THAT ONE UNNAMED PRIEST WHO SHOWED UP FOR 5 SECONDS TO BLESS THE WATER! IT'S NOT WOKE! Then a season later Alucard was taking black cock up his ass and a season after that the entire story turned into black lives matter slavery bad get the vaccine you chud. Hilarious.

>>281368660
Glad I was spared all that by dropping it a few minutes into the first episode because Western "anime" always looks bizarre and soulless.

>>281364117
Perfect example that a completely irredeemable piece of shit can still be entertaining and not all villains need a forced tragic backstory or moral greyness.

I only played this for the first time around 5 years ago and he was so refreshing considering the types of antagonists we have now.

>>281363596
The stories are not grouped together in suikoden 2 because of the playable character limit, an adaptation could probably triple of quadruple the number of characters at a given place.

They can also do the trick that persona 4 the animation did, which is to show snippets of the more out there sidestories in the background so that experienced viewers can see they are being adapted, and the new viewers wonder at WTH is happening, all in a time efficient manner.

>>281369086
>and not all villains need a forced tragic backstory
He has a tragic backstory though.

When he was a child he watched his mother get raped repeatedly by a bunch of hired thugs while his father fled to safety like a coward. Then he learned that the hired thugs were sent by Muse.

>>281361051
It's just a demo of what Konami animation has made. There's not trailer yet, juts that key visual.

>>281371801
Can't get our hopes up then

>>281368606
>>281368660
>>281369019
The Castlevania netflix adaption was an improvement over the source material. They made a lot of the flat characters from the story have development.

The only people who seethe about it are Christian right-wing tourists. The show still presented Christianity as a good force, it just portrayed Christian assholes as the antagonist. The original game did that but the show developed it more.

I liked that Nocturne made Anna use nigerian deities like Ogun and it was a shame that it wasn't continued.

>>281369086
There are a lot of stories that have black-and-white characters and developed characters, there's no oversaturation of either and if you think otherwise then you're a tourist who needs to learn how to curate your own taste instead of seeing whatever the algorithm feeds you.

>>281375367
>>281375456
>muh tourists
Samefag

>>281375567
Fax, you're idiots who are completely ignorant about the mediums that you are criticizing. Expand your taste.

>>281375623
No Anon, you are the tourist.

>>281375638
whatever you say tourist

>>281358299
>the MC have to recruit and then their individual story can be explored individually
In the game, half of them are irrelevant to the story, some are animals that never speak and a bunch of them have a minor backstory or no story at all, they just join you because you did a mini game. I'd argue that of the 108 playable characters the game only focuses on 20 or up to 30 at most.

>>281375771
You're the one who decided to come into this thread, get triggered, and start calling everyone beside you a tourist, that makes you the tourist by this point alone.

Unless you're a literal AI who doesn't know what that word actually means and are copying other people using it.

>>281357574 (OP)
what happened to suikoden 1?

>>281377237
they just jumped to suikoden 2

>>281377283
any reason?

>>281377493
I assume its just because suikoden 2 is the popular one.

>>281375835
I called you two tourists because you're ignorant whiners who don't watch anything aside from anti-woke youtube slop. You can say a bunch of stupid shit online as you'd like to, but don't be surprised if you're called out.

It's funny that you accuse people of being AI when you're incapable of thinking for yourself. All you do is parrot right-wing bullshit from others 24/7.

>>281378874
Nobody wants you here, so you're the tourist in this scenario.
That's how it works. Either stop complaining, or go back to where ever you came from.