Yutaka Yamamoto's 'Twilight' Anime Project's Teaser Reveals
2019 Release
The official Twitter account for Yutaka
Yamamoto's original anime project Hakubo (Twilight) posted a new
teaser video on Friday. The video reveals that the anime is in production, and
the description notes that it is slated to open in 2019.
The anime's crowdfunding campaign met its goal of 15 million yen (about US$137,000) in
April 2017. The anime was previously slated for this year.
Yamamoto (also known as Yamakan) himself is credited with the
original work, script, direction and sound direction. Sunao Chikaoka (Wake Up, Girls!) is designing the characters, Fuyuto Muraguchi is handling for color design, and Yō Yamada (Black Bullet) is in charge of sound production. Sōhei Kano (Fractale) is composing the music. Twilight
Studio will be in charge of
animation.
The cast includes Kana Hanazawa, Kaori Fukuhara, Sumi Shimamoto,
and Sora
Amamiya.
Yamamoto is
planning the anime as the last of his self-described "Tōhoku trilogy"
set in Japan's Tōhoku region in the northeast. Hakubo in particular
follows youths living in "the now and present" in Iwaki City,
Fukushima Prefecture after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011.
(The previous two Tōhoku projects, blossom and Wake Up, Girls!, were set
in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture and Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture,
respectively.)
Yamamoto said
that he first conceived of the project's initial concept two decades ago when
he was in college. When he mulled over what would be a good perspective to
depict Fukushima, he recalled this idea from his past and set it in Tōhoku.
Yamamoto has posted his
original novel that inspired the anime online.
Source:
Twilight anime's Twitter account
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