Only a few more days remain until the release of the Resident Evil 4 remake, and to celebrate the return of a game that’s up to its knees in blood and parasites, Capcom has released a cute anime short starring Leon Kennedy. Titled “Leon and the Mysterious Village”, this Resident Evil adventure is produced by Japanese animation studio Nippon Animation and is the first of several shorts. Despite the very cute art and intro, you probably don’t want your kids to see it.
The first episode features a much younger–and armed–Leon stumbling across a small town populated by homicidal villagers and ends with the unlucky government agent blocking an axe with his head. It’s gruesome, but adorable. It also looks like it was stylistically influenced by the 1974 Heidi anime series, and good luck getting this banger of a theme tune out of your head. Ever.