PUNCHING UP
When Riot Games announced it was making an animated TV show two years ago, it made sense. After all, League of Legends trailers have been a fascinating apex of excellent music, animation, and alluring character vignettes. Who wouldn’t want to see Riot’s take on a sprawling episodic story? But unlike the trailers that laid its foundation, Arcane isn’t just a gorgeous bit of animation set to some bangin’ tunes. It’s also a character-driven story about a family torn apart by ambition and oppression. And for co-creators Alex Yee and Christian Linke, Arcane is also a dream they’ve been working on for over six years.
“It’s been such an investment that there’s just a lot of excitement and giddiness for people to finally see the things that we’ve known for so long and never really been able to share with anyone,” Linke says.
“It is the sense of having this
