Animate Times published today an interview with MAGES.’ Chiyomaru Shikura, wherein the latter shed light on the situation regarding a potential Anonymous;Code anime adaptation.
Our summary of the key details can be found below.
- MAGES. labels Anonymous;Code a “Meta Science Adventure”; the player themselves, and specifically their collaborative relationship with Pollon, is crucial to the game’s progression from start to finish.
- Shikura admits this unique characteristic of the game would make an anime adaptation a difficult undertaking.
- At one point, he proposed an alternative approach to his staff: an anime adaptation where the viewers, who themselves do not “participate” in Anonymous;Code, instead watch the story play out between Pollon and the “player.”
- Essentially, “meta within meta.”
- Shikura is not new to this sort of adaptation dilemma. He has previously been through similar situations where a visual novel he worked on made heavy use of a unique gimmick that could not be adapted into the anime format.
- Shikura: “There have definitely been times when these sorts of projects just won’t pan out right, or even end in failure. But I never quit—I keep on trying to tackle those unique challenges anyway. I feel it’s my life’s purpose to. Which is why, someway and somehow, I still do want to have Anonymous;Code adapted into an anime.”
- Shikura closes the interview out by encouraging readers to play Anonymous;Code, to see what makes it so unique that it “can’t be adapted into an anime”—all while looking forward to the day an announcement of an anime adaptation is made.
We will strive to keep you updated as more news arises on Anonymous;Code. Click here to view our previous reporting on the title.
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