All hope is not lost

I have decided to make a short post on something I've just learned while we wait for the next chapter.

Those of you who have bothered to read the comments in the update section are probably aware of a conversation Jin, myself and some visitors had on the likelihood (or lack thereof) of there ever being a DICE animation or K-drama.

There isn't any on the horizon, but… a Noblesse OVA has been released! \o/

I don't read Noblesse, but it is a webtoon from Naver just like DICE. The OVA came out on Crunchyroll. The production is Japanese, which is also the language of the voice actors in it. The animation is not stellar, but not shoddy either.

Naver, as some of you may know, has a Japanese subsidiary, Hangames Corporation, which owns Comico.jp, the source of many Japanese webtoons, including the super-popular ReLIFE (which is going to be animated soon, but then again, it's Japanese). I can only guess that Naver commissioned this Noblesse OVA from Japanese producers via Hangames. Or something like that, it doesn't really matter how.

This all looks very auspicious. Noblesse is one of Naver's flagships (at least in LINE Webtoons, I don't know about South Korea). So are a few other series - The Gamer, Tower of God, Girls of the wild, as well as DICE. I don't think DICE would be their next choice of an OVA - the story is challenging to animate well, in my opinion, and it begins slow. However, this is a huge development if we consider that very few of us held any hope that our favourite webtoon would ever be animated.

So I leave you now with this sliver of hope that one day we might see Dongtae, Eunju, Taebin, Mio and X talking and moving - albeit in Japanese.