Kevin Smith promises his Masters of the Universe series will be exactly as you remember the classic series

Some good news for He-Man fans as Kevin Smith has been talking about the new animated series he’s showrunning and promises this is the He-Man we know and love from our – well, my – childhood.

In a new interview, Smith was talking about the new anime series, Masters of the Universe: Revelation,  and confirmed that despite that damned virus, the show is still in production and that the series will not be redesigned and the character will all look just as they did in the 1983 series.

“It’s in the style of an anime,” Smith says, “what Netflix calls an anime original…but looks exactly like our classic characters. Nobody’s been redesigned to where you’re ‘Oh that’s the 2020 version.’ They all look like they’re supposed to. And the story functions as essentially the next episode when [the 1980s original animated series] stopped.”

However, he’s not ruling out changes coming down the line in an organic way, but for now, the series will pick up exactly where the original series ended off.

“We begin where they ended, the same tone like that, and then our tone shifts as something cataclysmic happens. That’s where our modern story kicks in. Even then, it’s not like ‘Everything you know about He-Man is wrong. We’re gonna upend the universe.” Everything you knew about He-Man you need to know in order to watch the show because we play thick and fast with mythology,” Smith says.

The cast features a stellar cast including Mark Hamill and Sarah Michelle Gellar (check the whole line-up here) , so you can imagine how excited, as a child of the 80s, I am for this.