Stranger Things Animated Cutscene from the Video Game Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales
For some time now, The Duffer Brothers teased that we’d be additional venturing into the Upside Down with a by-product of some description earlier than or after the conclusion of the flagship collection. We’ve now realized that one of many spin-offs is ready to be an anime collection known as Stranger Things Tokyo.
The spin-off collection, we hear, has been in improvement for fairly a while, with early rumblings in regards to the challenge popping out in early 2021.
Details are nonetheless slim on the brand new challenge, however we do have a quick logline of what to anticipate:
“An encounter with the Upside Down evolves into a grand adventure for video game-loving twin brothers living on the outskirts of 1980s Tokyo.”
We’re listening to the collection is deliberate to be round 6 hours lengthy and is labeled as “the first” Stranger Things spinoff.
The Duffer Brothers confirmed a spin-off of some description earlier within the yr after they re-upped their Netflix deal earlier in 2022.
Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Matt Duffer mentioned the spin-off could be “1,000% different” from the unique and added it’d be a “story that connects to the Stranger Things world, but it really is more about how we’re telling that story.”
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Stranger Things has already made its approach into different codecs with two predominant Stranger Things video games and Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales which just lately was moved over to Netflix Games solely.
Why Stranger Things Will Venture into Anime
Some of Netflix’s greatest franchises (or makes an attempt at franchises) have seen spin-offs in a number of codecs through the years. The blueprint has been largely pioneered by The Witcher, which we’ve now seen as an anime spin-off, a live-action spin-off, and extra.
Other examples of different Netflix IPs to get or set to be transformed into anime/animated spinoffs embrace Bright (Bright: Samurai Soul), Altered Carbon (Altered Carbon: Resleeved), and Army of the Dead.
The mothership Stranger Things collection is returning for a fifth and remaining season which isn’t anticipated to hit till 2024, with filming thought to get underway in May 2023.
As talked about, The Duffer Brothers are working with Netflix below an total deal. Other tasks they’ve on past Stranger Things embrace The Talisman and the Death Note live-action adaptation of the anime collection.
We’ll preserve you posted after we hear extra about something associated to Stranger Things Tokyo.
Please notice the picture used on this article is from the cell Stranger Things online game and never consultant of the anime challenge.