Now that Blizzard is officially working on a WoW animated series, maybe it’s time to revive plans for a Diablo animated series.
Get the same company that made “Castlevania” and “Blood of Zeus.” There’s such a wealth of stories to choose from, you could start with “The Sin Wars” show the creation of Sanctuary and eventually the events of each Diablo game in later seasons.
You’d be giving fans what they want and also advertising for Blizzard games and merch.
I remember all the hype about this a few years ago and then nothing.
Just watch Rob’s Barblo 4 stream
I’d also like a Movie!
Rated R for Ratchet
But yeah I’d love a series… Animated or like Lord of the rings/Harry Potter.
I know right? I was so disappointed, it’s not like there isn’t a market for it. The had already made the “Wrath” short video before D3 and fans were unanimously calling for a full series.
Blizzard needs to move into the streaming service world. The lore behind every franchise is more than enough to profit big time. Warcraft, diablows, starcraft, overwatch all of them need a series.
Every episode is just people farming helltides.
Lol, right. And complaining while they do it, how they are weaker then in last week’s episode.
“this show is trash idiot animators” - the people who watch every episode
Saw some of s1 of Castlevania… story & VA were pretty good. Overall not amazing. That style of American animation is rarely amazing, there’s just not… there’s never enough frames, That’s about it: it can’t shine because they don’t pay animators for the hours required to render a fully fleshed-out, fluid animation. Even the best ones look like halfway between a flip book and a real anime.
In short, it needs to be fully animated, with realistic range of motion, and far, far outshine Castlevania visually.
On to story & dialogue: Ugh. Can’t get hopeful here. Extremely low expectations. There’s too much cringey self-reflection & projection, not enough raw writing talent in the industry as a whole right now (& what I’ve seen from Blizzard in the last few years). They’d have to poach a grizzled, jaded director & writing team from outside of the stable, or find that junior staffer who’s untainted by the plastic, hollow creep of stage drama & marketing to normies. Can’t be done imo, but I’d love them to prove me wrong.
Best observation today 
“This show is a dumpster fire I demand a refund.”
I dont see this working. Translating games to Tv series or movies has proven difficult. Diablo has a tricky complicated history and this to me doesnt make a good series. Only a handful has ever worked from Super Mario to Fallout there has been some monumental disasters like Halo and Borderlands to borderline meh like Warcraft.
But gritty, dark story in animation has been done effectively, and Diablo does have a story translatable to the screen (imo D2 cinematic sequence alone proves this). I agree that the prospects Blizzard will achieve this is close to zero, but the problem isn’t the content itself or the lack of good templates - since TV has a history & oeuvre way larger & richer than the plastic, mass-marketed shows pushed by the big American publishers today (I still haven’t tried Fallout for this reason). It’s that the industry currently lacks real talent, especially writers & directors.
Added: ofc, it goes almost without saying… they’d be daft to simply “adapt the video games” into a show, because the writing just isn’t there, not for 20 years now. It would have to be a completely untethered, original screenplay, from the mind of a mad, eccentric genius, and a stable of writers who really walk the walk (short of experimenting on cadavers in the basement ofc). The pen doesn’t lie - if the writer is slotted in just because of seniority or availability, the product will stink of it.
This made my laugh and then made me sigh.
If One Piece can have 1200 episodes, so too can Warcraft and Diablo series lol. Milk it for all it’s worth.
As far as the visual graphics argument goes in other’s posts, what about the Demon Slayer graphics like season 2 final fight scene. I dont think ive seen a more visually stunning scene in anime.
Correct (although idr which scene that is)… i.e. not an American animation studio. Blizzard being a Cali-based company, I wonder if they’re restricted by state law or industry standards or whatever, to hiring an American animation studio. Most of them just aren’t up to par… although, based on the success/praise of certain titles, American audiences like visual slop too I guess?
Anyway, yeah… when animation is outsourced to a non-American studio, the visuals benefit. Take Arcane as just one example among many… French studio.
I’d go into a rant about American food ingredients, but that’s tangential. Same sort of rant anyway. 