Blue Lock Director Reveals Why Crunchyroll’s New Action Series Goes Old-School
The Vermilion Mask director Tetsuaki Watanabe looked to the ’90s and early 2000s to make its supernatural battles easy to follow.
The Vermilion Mask director Tetsuaki Watanabe looked to the ’90s and early 2000s to make its supernatural battles easy to follow.
The short version
- Crunchyroll’s next big action series has ‘nowhere to go but up’ The Mask of the War God.
- Each grants its wearer a different supernatural ability.
- Sometimes, they function like playful Mario-style power-ups.
What happened
Other times, the overwhelming power involved could lead to unimaginable calamity. The Vermilion Mask ’s electrifying premiere — which airs in October on Crunchyroll — wastes little time putting these powers to use as it introduces apprentice mask maker Peru d’Arrest and his world-spanning quest to destroy his former master’s masks.
Why it matters
There are epic fights, compelling villains, and a sword so preposterously wide it makes Cloud Strife’s Buster Sword look small by comparison.
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