Developer Niantic is looking back to its roots. An upcoming anime series will be based on its original location-based adventure, Ingress. Before Pokémon Go shook the summer of 2016 and catapulted Niantic out of relative obscurity, Ingress was the company’s flagship game.
Developer Niantic is looking back to its roots. An upcoming anime series will be based on its original location-based adventure, Ingress. Before Pokémon Go shook the summer of 2016 and catapulted Niantic out of relative obscurity, Ingress was the company’s flagship game.
Ingress: The Animation, will revisit Niantic’s first game this October, set to arrive on Netflix as a complete season. A partnership between Niantic, Fuji TV, and animation studio Crafter, the series will follow a universe where a strange type of matter is found to be leaking out through inter dimensional portals.
Those who come in contact with this matter are gifted with psychic abilities, and the series will focus on two individuals affected by the events: Makoto and Sarah. They’ve been sucked into a battle between factions spawned by the strange portals.
Character designer Takeshi Honda, who previously contributed to legendary anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion, and CG artist Yuhei Sakuragi will be working together to bring the game to life. The anime series is expected to launch alongside the upcoming Ingress Prime mobile game, which is a rebuilt version of the original one, utilizing feedback learned from Pokémon Go players. Niantic is looking to make the game more accessible to newcomers and a wider player base.
