Yes. It's true.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/japan/maplestory-gets-sweet-sweet-anime-289940.php

Rofl, this should be a good laugh.

This is going to ROCK

Its gonna be the same episode, every episode, all 200 of them. One for each level. XD

is this a anime where we watch a noob grind themselves and evantually party to do zakum?
meh ragnarok anime is good enough for me.

The Ragnarok anime sucked. D:

old news for me o.o

ololo

I saw it on Kotau after 2-3 days of not visiting.

The Ragnarok anime sucked. D:

I thought it was hot

Oh lawd. This'll suck more than that old dude on Family Guy. D:

Hopefully it won't be 3/4th's grind and 1/4 repotting.

Lol, Ragnarok The Animation is pretty good i.m.o.
MS anime... I wonder how cute those snails will be...

Personally, I'd rather watch some fan-made movies, but yeah, like BoomThunda said, it should be a good laugh.

pfftt.. theyd be killing snails throughout the whole episode.. not very interesting >.<

...poking a snail with a stick is no fun

Well, it should be more fun around episode 100, assuming the characters take a level per episode.

Wow, Maple story anime...geezus and I thought Maple DS was too much... Great, now you can grind on the go with maple DS and Watch Anime about "Mapleing" (wtf is that anyway?...just killing monsters? What a plot!)...heh after all that you will log into maple story and pretend to be the characters from the anime...lawl

old news from here and there

feel really indifferent about the anime
just as long as they don't make it EXACTLY like how ragnarok was made, it will be ok.

Oh, a little bit of blood would do nicely!!!!!

I wonder what color giant, almost-child-sized snail blood.....
And what will they eat!!!!!! consiering the fact that the characters that we play with don't eat, what will they eat!?!?!?

Giant escargo????
Giant mushrooms roasted over a fire???
Grilled pig heads????
And how would they eat a crimson balrog????


EDIT: I also predict that Maple Story will turn out a lot like Azumanga Daioh, which iI extremely despise for no real reason whatsoever. Because the game doesn't really have a story, does it??? No I despise this anime even more....

Stop bashing. I can't wait to check out the anime chicks in ninja clothes.

I think I saw this on a random blog like, 3 or 4 months ago. I didn't think it was true, though.

I wonder how they're gonna show the hackers? xD Random people flying across the screen and walking through mobs?

And there'll be 10 billion people walking around with the same hair in Sauna Robes, save for the select few who got cash shop.

Oh gawd, I'm scared. ;_;

But of course, I'll watch it. Damn my love for Maple Story to hell.

MapleStory Online RPG Inspires TV Anime in October
posted on 2007-08-15 10:10 EDT

TV Tokyo has announced that it will start broadcasting an animated series based on MapleStory, the Korean fantasy massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG), on Sunday, October 7 at 8:30 a.m in Japan. The series will take over the timeslot that currently runs Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann. TV Tokyo posted the news on Anime X, its anime-centered website for mobile devices. The Japanese game version's maintainer Nexon had previously announced that Madhouse Studios (Last Order: Final Fantasy VII, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust) was to animate. Source: Moon PhaseBut of course, I'll watch it. Damn my love for Maple Story to hell.

Why do they have to take over the timeslot of Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann?! T_T

maybe because the series will end.. (only 26 eps)

I'm waiting for the Maple Story manga! Should be exciting!

I'm waiting for the Maple Story manga! Should be exciting!

And who says sarcasm fails on the internet.

Sadly I'm going to watch this too.. T.T (DAMN YOU MS)

ROFL This.

I'll probably watch it, for I used to play Maple. Why is everyone bashing if they've never seen it?

We can't really say that the anime will suck, we havent even seen a breif of it(trailer if you might say), if there is...point out, ill be glad to watch.

I wonder why is it that everytime a topic about an online game made an anime, it always goes down to, "it wil suck" or "It wont be worth watching it".

Ragnarok is an online game, they have animes that are pretty good.
Now, i am not supporting the maple anime or bringing it down at all.

I am just curious on, why can't we wait and then give our opinions on them?

although on my opinion, everything depends on the story...i guess it will make a success now that maple is known by a lot of people around the world playing it...either way, it will have people that will like it and people that wont, that's just how everything works.

yeah it really depends how the story goes and possible how good the drawing is done...

like Ragnarok the Animation was horrible...only like 20+episodes and i didnt even finish it