Animating games: Five games that became anime

But while the eternal conflict between assassins and templars doesn't turn into a Japanese animation, let's get to know other games that have won beautiful adaptations for the world of anime and that have shown that they can not only provide hours of fun for players but are also capable of telling stories incredible.

friendship and adventure

One of the most recent titles in the gaming world that has been turned into an anime is Final Fantasy XV. In order to expand on a reference to a childhood game that the character Prompto Argentum played, the producer Akio Ofuji created Brotherhood: Final Fantasy XV.

The webseries has excellent animation quality and has five episodes. The anime's story focuses on themes of friendship and brotherhood, designed to allow viewers to gain insight into the characters' personal lives that was not in the game. In addition to being displayed for free on Youtube, the series was also included in different editions of Final Fantasy XV. THE Definitive Collector's Edition comes with a special and exclusive sixth episode.

mysteries at school

Another game franchise turned anime was Danganronpa. The 2013 animation is directly based on the hit title Danganronpa: Happy Havoc trigger. The developer's game series Spike Chunsoft It deals with mysterious murders inside a very bizarre school, with the headmaster of the place being an evil teddy bear.

The anime's story follows in the footsteps of a boy named Makoto Naegi who, along with fourteen other students with unique abilities, is trapped inside the student academy Hope's Peak, where the psycho teddy bear director named monocuma offers them only one way to escape the place: kill another student without getting caught.

a terrible future

Following the success of the games, God Eater was adapted for the world of anime with thirteen episodes that manage to perfectly capture the story, action and emotion that the games have already provided to countless players. The anime's story takes place in a post-apocalyptic Japan, in 2071, where almost everything was destroyed by terrible monsters called Aragami.

Despite this, an organization was developed to exterminate these creatures by creating weapons from their cells, the “God Arcs”. Those who fight the Aragami using these weapons are called “God Eaters”. The main plot point revolves around a new type of God Arc that is discovered, which can change its shape and transform into a blade or a weapon, changing the fate of the confrontation.

lost in time

For those who are fans of stories that mess with the idea of "time travel", Stones; Gate (yes, it has a semicolon in the middle) is the right choice for you. The anime is based on the Japanese game by Nitroplus, a great public and critical success.

The story takes place in 2010 and follows the life of the young Rintaro Okabe and his friends who accidentally discover a way to travel through time. Through this ability to go back to the past or to the future, young people can send text messages to the past, changing the present and fixing many mistakes or causing many problems and paradoxes.

We have to take it!

Perhaps one of the most famous franchises in the gaming world that proved to be a resounding success when it turned into animation was Pokémon. the anime starring Ash and his inseparable adventure companion Pikachu was responsible for bringing poké-fever to the West in 1997, while the game was on all Gameboys in the East.

With 20 seasons produced and still having one of the biggest audiences, the pocket monsters in the animation world don't seem to have an end (even though Ash still hasn't won a single Pokémon League and is far from becoming a Master). Many players of Pikachu games and their friends only got to know the digital version through the anime, but what about you, reader, how did you discover the Pokémon world?