Shenmue (2022)

Original title

Shenmue the Animation

Genre

animation, drama, action & adventure

Country

Japan, United States of America

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man returns home to find his father murdered by a crime syndicate. He sets out on a quest for revenge that takes him from his small town to the streets of Hong Kong. Along the way he struggles with language barriers and the code of the yakuza.

slow-burntensemelancholicgrittyseriousmethodicalatmosphericnostalgic

What happens

Shenmue: The Animation, also known simply as Shenmue, is a Japanese anime television series based on the Shenmue video game series by Yu Suzuki and published by Sega. A co-production between Crunchyroll and Adult Swim, the series aired from February to May 2022. A Japanese streaming release followed in April 2022. Shortly after its streaming debut in Japan, it was decided that a televised broadcast of the series would commence a month later on Tokyo MX in May 2022. The anime series adapts the storyline of the first two games, Shenmue (1999) and Shenmue II (2001). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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