Marvel is now officially turning the Avengers into an anime series. It has been confirmed that the new show will be titled Marvel Future Avengers, and is scheduled to premiere in Japan this coming summer on the DLife channel.
As seen in the promo image, the anime will feature Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Thor, The Wasp, Penny from Inspector Gadget, and the kids from Pokemon. The youngsters gain powers from genetic experiments and teamed up with The Avengers as apprentices. In addition, a manga version will also appear in Shogakukan's Bessatsu Coro Coro Comics Special magazine's April issue, which ships on Tuesday.
Marvel partnered with Toei Animation in 2014, for another Japan-specific animated series, called the Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers. The series has yet to be launched in North America.
According to Anime News Network, the show focuses on a younger male demographic. The site claims that the show will focus on Makoto, a boy who got his powers through a gene manipulation experiment.
Marvel Future Avengers is not the first time that Marvel has created anime version of its superhero possessions. Back in 2010, four shows were aired on Japanese TV namely Iron Man, X-Men, Wolverine, and Blade. All were supervised by the famous British comic book writer Warren Ellis.
The collaboration also pierced two direct-to-video anime movies. The first was Iron Man: Rise of the Technovore in 2013 and followed by Avengers Confidential: Black Widow and Punisher in 2014.
In addition, Toei also teamed up with Marvel on the 1978-1979 live-action special-effects version of Spider-Man. Kodansha published Ryoichi Ikegami's manga re-imagining of Spider-Man in the Monthly Shonen Magazine, while Marvel itself developed the Mangaverse comic project.
It is still unknown if the Marvel Future Avengers will be aired in the United States. No trailer for the upcoming anime series has been released yet.
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