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Crunchyroll announced during Sony Group Corporation’s CES 2025 press conference today that an anime series based on Sucker Punch Productions’ Ghost of Tsushima video game and its Ghost of Tsushima: Legends multiplayer experience is officially in production. The anime will exclusively premiere on Crunchyroll in 2027.

Takanobu Mizuno (Star Wars: Visions "The Duel") will direct the series at Kamikaze Douga, with Gen Urobuchi writing the story composition. The anime will be produced in collaboration with Aniplex, with Sony Music serving as music and soundtrack partner. Additional staff and cast were not announced at the time of the panel.

The original Ghost of Tsushima game debuted on the PlayStation 4 in July 2020, with the PlayStation 5 released in 2021 and Windows in 2024. Ghost of Tsushima: Legends debuted in October 2020. A sequel, titled Ghost of Yōtei, was announced in September 2024 with a scheduled release of 2025. Sucker Punch describes the original game as such:
The year is 1274. Samurai warriors are the legendary defenders of Japan—until the fearsome Mongol Empire invades the island of Tsushima, wreaking havoc and conquering the local population. As one of the last surviving samurai, you rise from the ashes to fight back. But honorable tactics won’t lead you to victory. You must move beyond your samurai traditions to forge a new way of fighting—the way of the Ghost—as you wage an unconventional war for the freedom of Japan.
Announced @ Sony CES 2025 press conference today, premieres in 2027.

https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/announcements/2025/1/7/ghost-of-tsushima-legends-anime-series-2027-crunchyroll

Announced @ Sony CES 2025 press conference.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

 

[StereoVsn]

@CES 2025 today, sorry for such an empty thread lol. Will update as soon as I find an upload of the moment or an article.

That could be pretty good. Hopefully they would have some fights in “Kurosawa” mode.

 

[Paulistano]

Sony makes a deal with Sony to make an anime about a Sony IP.

 

[nial]

Sony makes a deal with Sony to make an anime about a Sony IP.

This is hype actually, SIE hasn't worked with Aniplex on anime production since the early 2000s, they weren't still called Aniplex!.

 

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[vivftp]

Excited to see how this evolves and I imagine this is just the first anime adaptation of a PlayStation IP with more to come

 

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Crunchyroll announced during Sony Group Corporation’s CES 2025 press conference today that an anime series based on Sucker Punch Productions’ Ghost of Tsushima video game and its Ghost of Tsushima: Legends multiplayer experience is officially in production. The anime will exclusively premiere on Crunchyroll in 2027.

Takanobu Mizuno (Star Wars: Visions "The Duel") will direct the series at Kamikaze Douga, with Gen Urobuchi writing the story composition. The anime will be produced in collaboration with Aniplex, with Sony Music serving as music and soundtrack partner. Additional staff and cast were not announced at the time of the panel.

The original Ghost of Tsushima game debuted on the PlayStation 4 in July 2020, with the PlayStation 5 released in 2021 and Windows in 2024. Ghost of Tsushima: Legends debuted in October 2020. A sequel, titled Ghost of Yōtei, was announced in September 2024 with a scheduled release of 2025. Sucker Punch describes the original game as such:
The year is 1274. Samurai warriors are the legendary defenders of Japan—until the fearsome Mongol Empire invades the island of Tsushima, wreaking havoc and conquering the local population. As one of the last surviving samurai, you rise from the ashes to fight back. But honorable tactics won’t lead you to victory. You must move beyond your samurai traditions to forge a new way of fighting—the way of the Ghost—as you wage an unconventional war for the freedom of Japan.

https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/announcements/2025/1/7/ghost-of-tsushima-legends-anime-series-2027-crunchyroll

 

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Gen Urobuchi working on it is crazy.

 

[Perrott]

PlayStation-adjacent announcements really saved that borefest of a conference.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

Sony makes a deal with Sony to make an anime about a Sony IP.

It's ridiculous how Sony basically has a monopoly on the anime industry.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Even more betrayal and traitor side stories.

 

[LordCBH]

 

[Bartski]

Awesome. I hope this means a gigantic new Legends is coming for Yotei

 

[Kurotri]

I'd be super hyped normally but I just don't feel it. Why Legends specifically? Isn't that just a multiplayer mode? I've never tried it out but it seems kinda random. And 2027 is just too far away. I know I know, a lotta complaining but I'm just not feeling this one.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

I'd be super hyped normally but I just don't feel it. Why Legends specifically? Isn't that just a multiplayer mode? I've never tried it out but it seems kinda random. And 2027 is just too far away. I know I know, a lotta complaining but I'm just not feeling this one.

I think it's because the first game is getting a live-action adaptation.

 

[Kurotri]

I think it's because the first game is getting a live-action adaptation.

Yeah I forgot about that one, it'd be an explanation for sure. I hope they cast Daisuke Tsuji again but for some reason I just know they won't.