Wait, Is That 'Lord Of The Rings: The War Of Rohirrim' Anime Actually 'Anime?'

February 15th, 2022 - 3:42 PM EST by Adam Downer

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It's time to bust out the anime alignment chart because New Line Cinema and Warner Brothers have released the first promotional photo for Lord Of The Rings: The War Of Rohirrim, an upcoming film that, when it was first announced in June last year, was billed as a Lord of the Rings anime.

Put simply, the first concept art teaser for the film doesn't quite look like anime.


The film does have some notable anime muscle behind it: Kenji Kamiyama of Blade Runner: Black Lotus and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is attached as director and anime studio Sola Entertainment is producing the film.

Still, the teaser put doubt in some fans' minds, as many feel burned by Amazon's unreleased (and unrelated) The Rings of Power series in the Lord of the Rings universe. Though news of the Lord of the Rings anime was met with cheers when it was first announced last June, the teaser was met with a more tepid response.


Of course, the teaser photo is the only tangible piece of media from the project at this point, so there's no real telling if the film will fit the typical "anime" aesthetic yet. And we'll have to wait a while to find out: the film will release in April 2024. Until then, surely Lord of the Rings and anime fans will sit patiently and not be too harsh on the upcoming project.


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Not only does this art do a terrible job of representing what the movie is supposedly being advertised as, but right now is the literal worst time to reveal it with the negative discussions about the Amazon series; it would be one thing if they actually had some significant content to show that actually looks like anime, but again, this post does nothing but undermine its premise as such. They should have waited until they had a trailer or something, especially if the movie isn't coming out until 2024. Clearly they were trying to capitalize on the other announcement and maybe even upstage it, but it ended up backfiring and looking like just more bad news on top of bad news. Reminds me of the trailer for the awful-looking new Masters of the Universe 3D cartoon coming out right when the Revelation one was trending for all the wrong reasons last year.

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