Dota gets an Anime

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OmniEulogy

Canada3214 Posts

netflix.com/dotadragonsblood

On February 16th, 2021, Netflix announced that they will be releasing an 8 episode anime series based on DOTA 2.

The show will be helmed by series showrunner and executive producer Ashley Edward Miller (Thor, X-Men: First Class, and Fringe), and animated by South Korean animation studio Studio MIR (The Legend of Korra, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, Voltron: Legendary Defender).

“Fans will love how we’ve imagined the DOTA 2 universe and woven together an epic, emotional, and adult-oriented story about some of their favorite characters,” said Ashley Edward Miller. “The cinematic animation, acting and music are simply next level and I’m grateful to Valve for supporting our creative ambitions.”

The Netflix logline is as follows:
“The sweeping fantasy series tells the story of Davion, a renowned Dragon Knight devoted to wiping the scourge from the face of the world. Following encounters with a powerful, ancient eldwurm as well as the noble Princess Mirana on a secret mission of her own, Davion becomes embroiled in events much larger than he could have ever imagined.”

An ingame countdown update promoting the anime was pushed to the DOTA 2 client early Tuesday evening along with the announcement trailer.

According to the ingame timer, the teaser trailer for the anime will release at 1 PM Eastern Standard Time on February 19th. A “main” trailer will be released on March 1st at 7 PM EST, and the series will premiere on March 25th at 2 AM EST here.

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Archeon

2094 Posts

Trailer looks pretty generic. Then again Korra was pretty good (more because of the villains than the art though) and Thor was at least solid.
The lighting reminds me a bit of castlevania.

low gravity, yes-yes!

Emnjay808

United States5411 Posts

ya ill be watchign it. i dont have high expectations, but getting more lore out of dota is always a good time

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Geisterkarle

Germany1575 Posts

So, we have an announcement trailer for a teaser trailer and then a “main” trailer!
Ah, modern internet moves!
But looks interesting! Will check it out just for the fun of it!

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Firebolt145

Lalalaland12147 Posts

What the fuck
midou

Bulgaria853 Posts

About time, been waiting for Dota movie/series. There are so many possible storylines…
nojok

France9625 Posts

Named after the most boring skill in the entire game and the trailer seems right in this vein.

Will watch anyway.

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Sbrubbles

Brazil2611 Posts

Hopefully whatever gives him dragon-transformation powers also changes his voice to the gruffier one we all know

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Archeon

2094 Posts

At least we finally know where our small indie dev’s last ten years of marketing budget went.

Tbf between the league and the Anime I’m kinda getting what I’ve been wanting for the last two years, there’s finally some promotion and financial stability in the t2 scene.

low gravity, yes-yes!

ASoo

2423 Posts

What a time to be alive.
Latham

3317 Posts

Even thought I saw the announcement in the in-game client I STILL think/feel this is a troll… omg.

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kevinhenderson

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eieio

United States12161 Posts

Lmao who asked for this

Gonna be pretty funny if it’s good, I guess

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ShiaoPi

TAIWAN NUMBAH WAN3222 Posts

Well I spotted Luna and Invoker in the new teaser:

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Archeon

2094 Posts

Second teaser imo looks a lot better. Luna looks derpy, but that’s just her design I guess. At least she didn’t come in her pajamas this time.

0:28/29 is a guy without context swinging a giant sword. Might or might not be Sven, although the other recognizeable characters look a lot more like their ingame equivalent, so I assume this just is the older DK (seems to be an order) who appears later on shortly.

Mirana is pretty sassy.

low gravity, yes-yes!

Latham

3317 Posts

Any1 else is actually very worried by the fact that the anime voices don’t match those in-game? Immersion breaking for me, honestly.

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Archeon

2094 Posts

DK’s voice actor is actually on board, so we might hear him when he transforms (assuming he skills ulti eventually).

I’m not sure the same people who do random lines for a video game are the people you look for if you do a high budget TV series. While I think that the voice acting in Dota is for the most part excellent, it’s probably very different trying to give your character character within a few sentences compared to speaking full dialogues in a somewhat realistic manner in a connected story.

low gravity, yes-yes!

lowdice

Sweden210 Posts

I’ll watch it. And I’ll enjoy it.

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Dekalinder

Italy144 Posts

Given Valve involvement, I don’t get why they didn’t contact the original voice actors. That said, all new voices still seems in line with the characters. Except Davion., Why does he sound like a 17 yo? And where is his shield?
Yurie

7906 Posts

On February 21 2021 04:52 Dekalinder wrote:
Given Valve involvement, I don’t get why they didn’t contact the original voice actors. That said, all new voices still seems in line with the characters. Except Davion., Why does he sound like a 17 yo? And where is his shield?

They probably did contact them. Doesn’t mean it worked out time and budget wise.

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