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# Watch The Three-Body Problem adapted as a Minecraft-style animated series
- URL: https://www.andrewliptak.com/cixin-liu-the-three-body-problem-minecraft/
- Published: 2020-03-23T04:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-09-12T15:07:43.000Z
- Author: Andrew Liptak
- Tags: News, Science Fiction

Cixin Liu’s **The Three-Body Problem* and the rest of his Remembrances of Earth’s Past trilogy have been hailed as a modern science fiction classic since it was translated into English in 2014\. Predictably, many of the series’ fans have wondered when there’ll be a film or television adaptation of the series.

Interestingly, it turns out that there is one: an animated series called **My Three-Body*, which used Minecraft to bring the story to life.

There have already been a couple of efforts to adapt *The Three-Body Problem* for film. A Chinese production company filmed an adaptation of the novel back in 2015, but that project has since sat on a shelf, rumored to be of poor quality. A couple of years later, Amazon had apparently been [negotiating for the rights](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/03/amazon-billion-the-three-body-problem?ref=andrewliptak.com) for an adaptation of its own for its streaming services, although the production company that owns the rights to the series [has disputed that](http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2018-03/23/content%5F50741719.htm?ref=andrewliptak.com).

Since then, Chinese science fiction got its biggest boost yet: [**The Wandering Earth*](https://www.tor.com/2019/06/14/liu-cixins-the-wandering-earth-is-now-a-striking-sf-film-on-netflix/?ref=andrewliptak.com), an epic science fiction blockbuster that adapts another of Cixin’s stories. The success of that film seems to have prompted a new adaptation of **The Three-Body Problem*: an animated series, which will apparently run for 24 episodes. That series is set to debut in 2021, according to Chinese video-sharing site Bilibili.

But while we wait, there’s another official adaptation that’s been running on the site for a couple of years.

**My Three-Body* is an animated series created by Zhenyi Li, one of the site’s uploaders, who began adapting Cixin’s series on his own, using Minecraft. He had discovered the novels in China’s **Science Fiction World* magazine in 2006, and he wanted to share the books with other fans around the country. According to Bilibili, Li’s series has become an officially authorized project.

The first series, **My Three-Body*, covers the events of the first novel, and was launched in 2014\. The second series, **My Three-Body: The Legend of Luo Ji*, debuted in 2016, and follows the events of the second novel, **The Dark Forest*, and the character Luo Ji, a sociologist who is made one of the “Wallfacers”—a select group of individuals granted extraordinary resources to combat the Trisolaran invasion.

The video site recently debuted a third series, **My Three-Body: The Legend of Zhang Beihai,* which ran for nine episodes, which debuted in January. This season follows the second half of **The Dark Forest*, following **Zhang Beihai,* a naval officer engaged in the fight against the Trisolarans.

The series has been streaming in Bilibili, but users have been uploading the series to YouTube outside of China, putting [season 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xvs%5FLUNoEk&list=PLCzzDQIop9Ax4AUETSFQNQEb3LObUOCg7&ref=andrewliptak.com), [season 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TusUoA1emI4&list=PLJ1-YFDG-WNqa3YQBK1m3PGzqok6m2LZV&ref=andrewliptak.com), and [season 3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blaMSFtFiKI&list=PLuKJTzk2Qbb5BLcXy2UIHyU8W6A2%5Fc1WH&ref=andrewliptak.com) into playlists.

The result is a little goofy with Minecraft-styled animation, but it appears to have gotten better in the years since.

[My Three Body Season 3 - Episode 1Come find us on Facebook at:The Three Body Problem 三体![](https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/7aa2c37d/img/favicon_144x144.png)YouTube![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ob5RWtwu1c4/maxresdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob5RWtwu1c4&feature=emb%5Ftitle&ref=andrewliptak.com)

Despite that visual style, it looks as though it’s a fairly faithful adaptation, and it’s a fun way to catch up on the series if it’s been a while since you’ve read it. And, it should help bide the time while we wait for the other animated adaptation to drop next year. At the very least, it’ll be a fun thing to watch while we’re trapped inside for the foreseeable future.