Adult Swim’s “Fena: Pirate Princess” & “Ballmastrz: 9009” Selected For Annecy 2021

Annecy 2021 is going to be a hybrid event this year, offering both virtual and physical options for attendees to show up starting June 14th to the 19th.

Adult Swim will be well-represented. First up, the network’s Ballmastrz: 9009 is in attendance which is hopefully a prelude to a third season pickup for the Christy Karacas/Titmouse-produced series. In any event, the series is an official selection. In this Adult Swim series, thousands of years in the future, teams of Ballmastrz face off against each other using their own hyper-creative and artificially intelligent combat weapons to attack, defend and score.

Also being shown off in the “Work in Progress” category, Fena: Pirate Princess. 

Fena: Pirate Princess is a 12 episode original anime series that tells the tale of a young orphan girl, Fena Houtman. Fena has been raised on an Island where there is no hope of becoming anything more than chattel, to be used and discarded by soldiers of the British Empire. But Fena is more than just another powerless orphan. When her mysterious past comes knocking, Fena will break the chains of her oppressors. Her goal: forge a new identity, free of bondage, and search for a place where she can truly belong and find out the true mysteries behind a keyword “Eden.” It is the story of a lifetime adventure she and her crew of misfits and unlikely allies will have, in pursuit of her goals!

Fena: Pirate Princess, directed by Kazuto Nakazawa (B: The Beginning, Kill Bill) and with animation by Production I.G, will be an Adult Swim and Crunchyroll Production.