When will league be turned into an anime?

bubagumps·8/31/2016, 12:33:13 AM·2 votes·546 views

Some of you may already have seen this but the admins of Riot want me to post this discussion in this forum instead.

So when are we going to see riot team up with a company like funimation to create a LoL anime. There are various fan shorts that display a number of different ways the show could be developed (although I personally believe that an anime based of the lore of each character that slowly introduces each character and ends with them joining the League would be best). The next obvious step after would be a LoL movie. Soooo lets hash out a time line here folks.

4 Comments

Flaherty8/31/2016, 12:34:56 AM1 votes

Can't be an anime unless it's from Japan, so the answer is never.

CobaltTheMadMage8/31/2016, 2:15:35 AM1 votes

Funimation doesn't make anime, they just localize them. Making an anime would require Riot to hire sufficiently-skilled animators, artists, and writers (they technically have voice-actors already) to spend weeks at a time making each individual episode, to say nothing of contracts with networks or site hosting if they want to put it on TV or online streaming, respectively.

Plus the overall meta-lore of League is still in a state of limbo, what with the League of Legends as an in-universe organization having been retconned completely in favor of developing each champion's individual stories in the world of Runeterra so...

best-case scenario is 'never'.

Zenturian8/31/2016, 5:04:02 PM1 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrZMlFg_AAg

Link is to a 2 minute clip of what league would like like as anime... it's not some half ass drawing... but actual combat. I dug it.

zrWQMdGHtY8/31/2016, 5:09:42 PM1 votes

Make a LoL anime and Im out before the Katarina rework \o/