Mappa Stage 2023 event revealed on Sunday The Mourning Children: Nagiko and the Girls Wearing Tsurubami Black ,Tsurubami-iro no Nagiko-tachi, title, composer akira senju ,Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Mobile Suit Vijay Gundam), creating videos and teaser visuals for the director Sunao KatabuchiNew feature-length animated film from.
Katabuchi began developing the project in 2017. The story is set in Kyoto during the 10th century “when pillow book It was written by real-life novelist Sei Shonagon.
A previous video for the film teased that a pandemic would appear in the film’s story, and teased that Sei Shonagon would be a character in the film, with character names such as Koretada, Tokinaka, Chikatada, and Takai.
Chi Uratani ,Hijikata Toshizō: Shiro no Kiseki, Princess Aarti, Ushiro no Shomen Dare) working as a directing assistant (translated as co-director in the previous video), and Masashi Endo ,deer king, Princess Mononoke) is the Chief Animation Director. Toshiharu Mizutani ,akira, baby whale, banana fish, little Busters!) is directing the art.
Contrail, the anime studio founded by Katabuchi in September 2019, is producing the film. Mappa‘S manabu otsuka Contrail’s representatives are directors, and Katabuchi is a member of the board. The company is located in the Suginami Ward of Tokyo.
katabuchi has directed this kind of anime black Lagoon, Black Lagoon: Roberta’s Blood Trail, Black Lagoon: Second Barrage, My My Miracle, Princess AartiAnd Meeken Lassi, He wrote the screenplay and directed the critically acclaimed in this corner of the world The film, which opened in November 2016. extended version of the movie, In this corner (and other corners) of the worldOpened in Japan in December 2019.
Source: Press Release, Mappa stage 2023 livestream