‘Pacific Rim’ Anime First Look Images Return To The World Of Giant Monsters And Robots
Guillermo del Toro’s sci-fi action blockbusterPacific Rimtook inspiration from many anime series that came before it. The idea of giant monsters taking on massive human-controlled robots is an integral part of the Japanese animation arena, and nowPacific Rimwill head directly into that territory withPacific Rim: The Black, a new anime series coming to Netflix in 2021. To tease the forthcoming adaptation, Legendary has released the firstPacific Rimanime photos, showing off the two new main characters in a Jaeger and a hulking kaiju.
Pacific Rim Anime Photos
The first photo (released byLegendary) takes us inside a Jaeger, but we don’t have a name for this particular robot yet, and we don’t know what it looks like on the outside. However, the interior looks exactly how it appeared in thePacific Rimmovies.
When thePacific Rimanime was first announced, we heard the series was about an idealistic teen boy and his naïve younger sister who are forced to pilot an abandoned Jaeger across a hostile landscape in a desperate attempt to find their missing parents. These two are likely those characters.
Since the movie explained about how difficult it can be to pilot a Jaeger, it’ll be interesting to see how a pair of young kids like this will fare inside one of these massive robots. ButPacific Rim Uprisinghad a young girl become one of the star Jaegar pilots, so anything is possible. After all, having a brother and sister pilot a Jaeger together will make them even more compatible when they’re drifting.
It wouldn’t bePacific Rimwithout a massive kaiju, and here it is. Clearly it’s been busy destroying some infrastructure, as the smoke lingering behind it indicates. This is quite a beefy kaiju, and the glow underneath the rough, dark skin is a little reminiscent of the creatures fromAttack the Block. But instead of the teeth only glowing, it’s almost as if there’s a layer of aqua-colored magma covering it.
So far, this just looks like aPacific Rimmovie with an anime filter on it. That’s fine, but as an anime,Pacific Rimhas an uphill battle to stand out from the rest of the mecha versus kaiju projects that are out there. It might be a nice entry point forPacific Rimfans to get into anime, but will it be satisfying for longtime fans of the Japanese animation medium? While we wait to find out, check out ourrecommendations of anime to watchfor those who liked whatPacific Rimhad to offer.
Pacific Rim: The Blackis coming from writersCraig Kyle(Thor:Ragnarok) andGreg Johnson(X-Men: Evolution), but beyond that, we don’t have any details on directors or the voice cast yet. Netflix will release the series sometime in 2021, but there’s no specific release date yet.
