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So I haven't seen anyone posting about this on Tumblr yet today. If that's because I'm not following whoever posted it then we should rectify that mistake.

Now, those of my followers who've read Cradle are all already excited. For those who haven't read Cradle, some context:

Cradle is the gold standard leader of the slowly growing Western Progression Fantasy genre. Inspired by genre's such as Wuxia and Xianxia, and every Shonen anime where the protagonist grows in power over the length of the series.

The series begins with Unsouled, and follows the character Lindon as he progresses from the lowest possible starting point to the peak of the magical martial arts system of his world over the course of 12 fast paced books.

As the series went on, each Cradle book started to top the charts upon release, with its popularity quickly growing among the Kindle Unlimited reading audience. One thing remains in common among pretty much every reader I've talked to –their first reaction to whichever Cradle moment hooked them has been: "Holy shit this would be so cool if it was animated."

Now we have the chance to see that. Author Will Wight and team have partnered with filmmaker Jay Oliva and his studio Lex+Otis to bring Cradle to life. If Jay's name isn't immediately recognizable for you (it wasn't for me,) you should check out his IMDB page. Its seriously impressive and includes a bunch of popular animations such as dozens of DC animations and nostalgic favorites like Jackie Channel adventures, amongst other household name animations.

We'll be getting some animation no matter what, but the stretch goals for this kickstarter could see some really cool work coming out of this project, up to a full limited series.

Not only does this kickstarter directly fund the animation project, but it opens up the possibilities of a bigger studio or streaming service getting their eyes on the potential of Cradle and potentially picking it up in the manner of Vox Machina.

Cradle has the potential to open up an entirely new genre of stories among general Western audiences who may have never experienced this style of story before, and a Cradle animation has the ability to draw in whole groups of people who prefer visual media to written or audio.

Join the kickstarter if you can, share it with potentially interested followers, friends, or family if you can't.

If this is your first exposure to Cradle, take a look at the kickstarter page to see some of the concept art for the animation and take a look at the books here to see if they might catch your interest.

- good story

- good romance, I was shipping Bruce x Selina so hard! (damn you, Batman!! You were right, but still, damn you!!)

- good fight scenes (man, I love DC’s animations jobs on this!)

- good plot twist