I was really interested when I initially heard the pitch, but the trailer really dampened my enthusiasm. It doesn’t look esspecially LotR-y. It looked very bog-standard-anime in both character and plot. Not really what I want out of an anime, nonetheless out of LotR. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong, but my hopes are not high.
Same feeling with the trailer. I just can’t see it working, LOTR and animation could work so well, but not with generic anime style. They needed to flesh their own style for this to work well, just like Fortiche did with Arcane.
I’m not big on anime at all, so I am not drawing on a broad range of experience here, but I can think of at least one that I think really matches the feel that you’d want for an LotR adaption: Sword of the Stranger
I’m gonna guess you don’t mean the Russian adaptation from 1991: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt12121178/
And you mean this one from 1977: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0077687/
I haven’t watched it but based on the screenshots, while an outdated style I’d rather say I like the character design. A bit too cartoonish and childish but that kinda belongs in the realm of the Hobbit, so to me it fits quite well.
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It has only been produced so New Line doesn’t lose the rights. So even if it’s a massive flop it doesn’t matter much.
Speak for yourself dude.
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Wasn’t aware of it until now. Big LotR fan from way back. Thought they did a great job with the LotR film trilogy, and The Hobbit films were abominable. Haven’t seen any of Rings of Power, because I suspect I’d hate it.
I have fond memories of the '77 animated Hobbit movie, as well as the (admittedly uneven) '78 Ralph Bakshi LotR film.
Not a big anime fan in general; in my opinion, animated films and television depend even more on good writing than live action does, and most animated material (anime or otherwise) has terrible writing.
All that (unnecessary context nobody asked for) aside, this looks interesting to me, and I might watch it at some point. It probably helps that I haven’t been overexposed to common anime tropes that might put off others.
