Mass Effect: Paragon Lost Trailer

[Genkina Hito]

Funimation are streaming a trailer for Japanese studio T.O. Entertainment’s anime adaptation of the Mass Effect franchise, Mass Effect: Paragon Lost. 


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Synopsis
<em>
Stationed at a colony in a remote star system Alliance Marine, James Vega leads an elite Special Forces squad against The Collectors who are trying to snatch the population for unknown purposes. </em>

Production I.G. and T.O. Entertainment collaborated with BioWare and Funimation in creating an anime prequel to Mass Effect 3. This is the second BioWare property to get the anime treatment following on from Dragon Age: Dawn of Seeker. The anime is directed by Atsushi Takeuchi who has worked on key animation for classic anime like Moldiver, Patlabor movies, sky Crawlers and A Letter to Momo. The anime will have music scored by Joshua R. Mosley and David Kates who previously worked on the soundtracks for Mass Effect 1 and 2.

<a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/news/2012-07-13/mass-effect/paragon-lost-premiere-trailer-posted">Source</a>

 

[kupocake]

No two ways about this - this looks irredeemably terrible: off model characters, cheap animation, cliched, poorly constructed voice over. Not to mention the scenario being one of the least interesting they probably could have come up with given the universe and its characters.

Two words that encapsulate the problems: "You ladies". The narration is so clearly a weary first-read that it's kind of hard to tell that this is supposed to be that 'gruff drill sergeant in space' type that has been coughed up before in everything between Aliens and Halo, and it's so profoundly lazy that it actually alarms you how out of place it is to use 'ladies' derogatively in a universe where the female to male military ratio is basically 50:50.

The cliche about Mass Effect fans is that they're over emotional and impossible to please. The cliche about anime fans is that they're snooty and hostile to anything which fakes its Japanese-ness. But there isn't going to be an especially dramatic reaction here: the truth is, this is going to evaporate as soon as it releases.

 

[Peachy]

I do agree ..it looks pretty ...bleh but I'll be watching/buying it regardless.