First Look at Netflix's PACIFIC RIM Anime Series
Netflix has shared a couple of images giving us a first look at its Pacific Rim anime series. The project comes from Legendary Entertainment (Kong: Skull Island; Pokemon: Detective Pikachu), and it’s being developed by co-showrunners Craig Kyle (Thor: Ragnarok) and Greg Johnson (X-Men: Evolution).
The series will expand the world that was built for the live-action film franchise. The story follows two siblings, an idealistic teenage 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.
I’ve enjoyed the Pacific Rim films, and I hope that this upcoming series will be just as fun as what the movie has delivered. Here’s a synopsis that was shared offing a few additional details:
There was a time when Kaiju rose from the Pacific Rim only to encounter gigantic robots, Jaegers, built to fight them back. That time has passed. Now, Australia has been overrun by Kaiju, forcing the evacuation of an entire continent. Left behind, teenage siblings Taylor and Hayley embark on a desperate search for their missing parents, teaching themselves to pilot a battered, long-abandoned Jaeger to help in their quest and give them even the slightest hope of surviving.
The Pacific Rim anime series is set to be released sometime in 2021. We’ll have a better idea of what’s in store when a trailer is released. But, for now, this is what we’ve got!