I was scooting around crunchyroll.com one day, when out of curiousity, I decided to search for ‘maplestory’.  And guess what I found…

 

I was quite shocked to find out that Nexon has branched out into the anime scene.  And so, I watched the 1st episode of this relatively new anime.(currently 3 episodes only.)  Here’s the synopsis… (taken from crunchyroll.com too)

 

TTen years ago, the World Tree that protected peace and order of the world was being targeted by an evil organization called the Zakun (in Mandarin pinyin, it is za1 kun1 tuan2). The Human race led four other races in a fight against the Zakuns. In the end, the World Tree activated self-destruction to protect itself. However, the other races thought it was the Human race that destroyed the World Tree. Since then, a never-ending war between the different races began.
Ten years later, the main protagonist, Al, determines to revive the World Tree. Al and his companions begin their journey to seek the seed of the World Tree. At the same time, the Zakuns

This anime has quite an interesting storyline.  However, from the quality, I can tell that Nexon did not put much effort into the production and only wanted to use this anime to attract more people to the actual game.  In fact, you can say that this anime is just simply blending all the monsters, maps and places into one and conjuring up a storyline to go with it.  Don’t waste your time on this anime; there are much better ones for you to watch. 

Talking about crunchyroll, some people call it the Asian youtube’ but it is actually an upsize version of youtube, with better organization and other stuff like groups.  Oh yes,  if you are a member of crunchyroll too(like me!), get someone to invite you to the maplestory group!