Garena follows in the footsteps of gaming giants to launch an anime for Free Fire

Following in the footsteps of Esports giants such as Valve or Riot Games, Garena has cooperated with KADOKAWA to launch a new anime for Free Fire.

Over the past years, Free Fire has always been considered one of the most popular games in the Vietnamese gaming industry. In addition to a large number of players worldwide, Free Fire also has a huge Esports ecosystem with a large number of players and audiences. According to statistics from data.ai, Free Fire is also the most downloaded game in the world from 2019 to 2021, and is also the most downloaded product in the battle royale genre from 2022 to 2023.

Such success, Garena recently suddenly announced the company’s new project for its “darling” Free Fire: Launching an animated film to broadcast worldwide.

More specifically about this project, Free Fire’s new animated film will be produced by KADOKAWA – a famous company that has released many blockbusters in the anime industry such as Your Name, Weathering With You, Belle,… Therefore, plus Gamers are all placing a lot of expectations on the new product that will be launched by KADOKAWA as well as Garena about this battle royale game.

Looking back at the history of the gaming industry, in recent years, “big players” in the Esports industry such as Valve or Riot Games have released animated films such as Dragon’s Blood and Arcane. Or the game Fallout has just released its post-apocalyptic film series and has received a lot of attention from the gaming community. So launching an animated movie for Free Fire is probably a project that Garena has cherished for a long time.

However, unlike the names above, the plot of Free Fire is not too clear, so if you want your product to be successful, perhaps Garena and KADOKAWA will have to invest a lot in the plot as well as the content. content for anime about Free Fire.