Following yesterday's coverage of Donald Glover starring in and directing Netflix's live-action PUBG series, the fuller picture now emerging is that this is actually the streamer's *second* PUBG project.

Shane the Gamer reports that an animated PUBG series from Castlevania executive producer Adi Shankar was announced in 2021 and was previously in development at Netflix, meaning the Glover project arrives five years after the first attempt was unveiled.

Krafton, per vietnam.vn, officially announced the new series on October 30 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, as part of its plan to expand PUBG into original entertainment content through its LV3H subsidiary. Shane the Gamer adds that Krafton first announced PUBG film and TV plans back in 2020.

Shane the Gamer lists four more executive producers: Michael Schaefer (Neon), Fam Udeorji (Gilga), and Taeseok Jang and Sujin Lee of LV3H, Krafton's entertainment arm — meaning the game's owner has two of its own producers directly shaping the adaptation.

vietnam.vn also notes Glover voices Yoshi in the Super Mario Galaxy film, per its reporting, an earlier brush with a game property.

The most striking challenge the outlets flag is that PUBG has essentially nothing to adapt. Shane the Gamer reports that Variety said plot details are being kept under wraps — and that the game itself offers little to work from.

PUBG, launched in 2017 as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, drops up to 100 players onto a map to scavenge weapons and fight until one is left standing; Collider describes the same battle-royale premise and notes it once set seven Guinness World Records but has no narrative of its own.

That, as Shane the Gamer observes, puts more weight on the Glovers than most adaptations face: Netflix's Assassin's Creed and Gears of War projects start from established lore, while a PUBG series starts from a premise, so nearly everything on screen must be invented from scratch.

The series joins what Shane the Gamer describes as a long list of game projects at Netflix, including a live-action Assassin's Creed series, a live-action Gears of War film, a Crazy Taxi film, and animated Minecraft, Clash of Clans and Diablo series — the last from a recent Blizzard partnership.

The streamer already carries Castlevania, Tomb Raider, Sonic the Hedgehog, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, per Shane the Gamer, while Collider notes three of the medium's most acclaimed TV adaptations — Castlevania, Arcane and Devil May Cry among them — have Netflix ties.

No release window, production start date, episode count or further cast has been announced, according to Shane the Gamer and vietnam.vn, so fans should expect development news to arrive in stages.