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Yutaka Yamamoto's Twilight Anime Project Reveals Cast, Staff, Teaser Visual
posted on by Anita Tai
The Campfire crowdfunding page for Twilight) original anime film project updated on Monday with the main staff, cast, and a new teaser visual on Monday.
Yamamoto himself is credited with the original work, script, direction and sound direction. Twilight Studio will be in charge of animation.
The main cast includes Sumi Shimamoto, among others.
The campaign seeks to raise 15 million yen ($131,598) to fund production, though Yamamoto has said that he plans to go forward with the project even if the campaign does not meet its goal. As of press time has raised 7,693,515 yen ($69,402), and the campaign will end on April 29. The film is slated for 2018.
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 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 Tohoku.
"A way of life that could be anywhere, experienced by a girl who could be anywhere.
A life that could be anywhere.
A love that could be anywhere."
Yamamoto will post the original novel that inspired the anime on the web.
Yamamoto (green-lit for this year, but Yamamoto and Ordet are no longer working on the new project.
[Via Yusaani]
