The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep – the Witcher anime heading to Netflix subsequent month – will happen in the midst of the live-action present, particularly between episodes 5 and 6, and it features a scene that was lower from Henry Cavill’s first season.
As detailed on this month’s SFX journal and shared by GamesRadar+, author Mike Ostrowski and co-writer Rae Benjamin name it “a interval of not being collectively [with Yennefer], or a interval of hassle, however nonetheless on one another’s minds”.
The writers say they don’t intervene with the live-action present’s chronology or timeline, however the anime does embrace a “enjoyable little scene” that was reportedly lower from the primary Netflix sequence.
What, precisely, that scene entails? We will have to attend till the present debuts on eleventh February, sadly – the writers would not say extra. However as we all know Anya Chalotra reprises her position as Yennefer within the anime, the writers tease that we’ll see extra of Geralt and Yennefer’s relationship in Sirens of the Deep.
“Geralt can’t let Yennefer go, though he is attempting his finest,” Ostrowski added. “She haunts him. Even when he wished to be rid of her, he cannot.”
As Matt summarised for us just lately, two and a half years after The Witcher 4’s announcement, CD Projekt lastly gave it the large reveal therapy late in 2024, confirming Ciri to be the main target this time round. And now Doug Cockle – voice of former sequence protagonist Geralt of Rivia each within the video games and the anime – has had his say, calling the swap to a brand new important character, a “actually, actually attention-grabbing transfer for every kind of causes”.