Critical Role's new Amazon-backed series is leaning hard into the art style that made Japanese anime so much money

Critical Role's "The Mighty Nein" premieres on Prime Video on November 19.Prime VideoCritical Role's "The Mighty Nein" drops on November 19.CR has also signed on for a fifth season of its other series, "The Legend of Vox Machina."That will be the last season of the Amazon-backed "TLOVM" — and a milestone for the nerdworld business.If there's one maxim the Critical Role team seems to be leaning into with its latest slate of Amazon-backed animation, it's to make the characters as hot as possible.And not just regular hot: Japanese anime-style hot.At San Diego Comic Con, the cofounders of the nerdworld business dropped the November 19 release date for their coming Prime Video animated series, "The Mighty Nein."The series is based on the team's second long-running "Dungeons & Dragons" campaign, which it streamed on Twitch and other platforms for 141 episodes from 2018 to 2021.The main characters in the "Mighty Nein" are voiced by their creators — the eight CR cofounders.There were also sneak peeks of the new character art.CR also dropped previews of character art for Caleb Widogast, played by cofounder Liam O'Brien, and Mollymauk Tealeaf, voiced by Taliesin Jaffe.Prime VideoThere's something for everyone!Jester Lavorre (left, played by CR cofounder) is the perfect horned magical girl. Fjord (voiced by CR CEO Travis Willingham) meanwhile, is giving brooding action hero.Prime VideoJapanese anime is a multibillion-dollar industry that the CR cofounders know well. Most of the team started their entertainment careers as anime voice actors.Matthew Mercer, the group's chief creative officer, was the English voice of the wildly popular anime, "Attack on Titan." He also voiced the devastatingly pretty Vincent Valentine, a fan favorite character in Square Enix's remake of the "Final Fantasy" video game series.At San Diego Comic Con, Prime Video announced "The Legend of Vox Machina" is getting its fifth and last season. The CR crew also announced that the hit show's fourth season will air in 2026.The Critical Role crew has secured a fifth season of its hit Amazon-backed animated series, "The Legend of Vox Machina."Prime Video"TLOVM" was the initial project through which CR secured an $11.3 million Kickstarter fundraising round to create the show. It has aired three seasons of 12 episodes apiece so far."It's so rare for any television series to get to tell a complete story, beginning to end, exactly as it was envisioned," said executive producers and Critical Role co-founders Sam Riegel and Travis Willingham in a press release. Read the original article on Business Insider

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