Simply two weeks after its premiere, Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft will get to inform extra of its hero’s story.
Netflix and Powerhouse Animation’s anime adaptation of the action-adventure sequence obtained the inexperienced mild for season two. The following chapter in Lara’s (Haley Atwell) present will see her reunite with Sam Nishimura (Karen Fukuhara), her BFF from the Survivor trilogy who briefly appeared within the first season. Based on the press release, the duo embark on a quest to get well a set of stolen African Orisha masks. Together with uncovering the ability and “darkish secrets and techniques” of the masks, Lara and Sam will go up in opposition to a “harmful and enigmatic billionaire” that desires the masks for her personal ends.
Showrunner Tasha Huo defined that Legend’s first season was about “Lara embracing how her dad handled grief” through isolation. For season two, we’ll see her construct out a stronger help system: “As we get into season two,” she teased, “Lara [will] go from remoted hero who solely needs to do issues on her personal — a lone wolf — to realizing, ‘Really, I’ve this actually cool group behind me.’” Past Sam (who hasn’t had a full look within the video games since Tomb Raider 2013), that group presumably extra Jonah, Camilla Roth, and Zip, who all appeared within the first season.
Tomb Raider’s first season was a fairly strong online game present that appeared to have plenty of enjoyable hopping across the globe and molding Survivor Lara into the unique, badass model from the sooner video games. In case you haven’t watched it, give it a shot, each as a result of Powerhouse’s Lara is a full adrenaline freak (in a great way), but in addition as a result of it’ll be some time earlier than we see or right here extra about season two and the subsequent mainline recreation.
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