Netflix’s Dragon’s Dogma anime coming later this year


Dragon dogma It will hit Netflix later this year. The streaming service announced on Twitter that the adaptation of Capcom’s dragon hunting and action adventure game will premiere on September 17.

According to the Netflix plot description, the show will continue in a world where the Dragon has not attacked for over 100 years, until suddenly, the Dragon reappears and attacks a small village. A villager named Ethan tries to protect his family, but things don’t exactly work. Instead of dying, Ethan becomes the Risen One and sets out on a quest to kill the Dragon with the help of a Pawn, a being that only exists to hunt down the Dragon.

This story of an Arisen trying to take on the Dragon closely mirrors the plot of the original game, but the Netflix series appears to be using mostly new characters. During his quest to defeat the Dragon, Ethan will also encounter various themed monsters surrounding the Seven Deadly Sins, another new addition to the show.

the Dragon dogma The series will be brought to Netflix by animation studio Sublimation, one of several Japanese animation studios that Netflix partnered with last year. Sublimation specializes in the use of CG animation, however Netflix announced that the show would also be mixed into more traditional 2D animation.