Chinese anime is turning a new page as Bilibili announced exciting new developments. The company will be releasing newly developed 27 Chinese animes that it commissioned. Most will be available online next year.

Of the 27 animes, 13 will be original titles and the rest will be updates of high-profile Chinese series which were introduced last year by the said company. One of the major titles that Bilibili announced is the anime adaptation of The Three-Body Problem, an award-winning piece by Liu Cixin, one of China’s most sought after science fiction author. Bilibili also released the official trailer of the show.

“From my point of view, as a science fiction writer, anime is a particularly suitable form of expression for science fiction content. Compared to traditional films with real actors and actresses, anime has greater freedom,” shared the author during the company’s tenth anniversary last June when the project was first announced.

Bilibili commissioned one of the most in-demand animation studios in the country to produce the new anime with the authorization and guidance of the Three-body Universe (Shanghai) Cultural Development Co Ltd. This is not the first foray of the two companies together. In 2018, they also worked for Incarnation, another highly acclaimed apocalypse thriller/adventure/sci-fi series that garnered more than 73 million views.