Games-turned-animated shows is a fancy new trend for mainstream publishers and, somehow, one that actually seems to work quite well and ends up giving us tremendously high-quality television for once. We’ve seen it happen with Riot and Arcane, Dota 2 also had its own solid series, and, of course, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is one of the coolest pieces of animated TV ever made.
But one popular IP never got made into a show of any kind, even though it’s almost a perfect template for exactly that medium—Overwatch. Fans have been asking for a proper animated Overwatch show for as long as the game has existed, with requests ramping up following the incredible success of the mentioned Arcane.
It proved serious, grounded tales told in otherwise larger-than-life universes can work and be amazing, and Overwatch itself, especially some of its characters, would undoubtedly reaffirm this notion.
