Production I.G Reveals Shika no Ō Anime Film’s Staff, September 18 Opening

On Tuesday the major team members and September 18 starting date of the anime movie version of medical romantic novel series Shika no Ō by Nahoko Uehashi was disclosed. The movie is being directed by Masashi Ando along with Masayuki Miyaji. The characters are also being illustrated by Masashi Ando and he is also the head director of animation. The script is being written by Taku Kishimoto.

A still of the movie was also disclosed by Production I.G

In September 2014 the novels was issued by Kadokawa in two volumes concurrently and then in June and July 2017 the series was set out in four volumes. The novel has more than 1.5 million copies in print form.

The books focus on Van, the leader of a gathering of warriors who expected to bite the dust battling for their territories against a huge domain hoping to fuse their home into its realm. Rather than kicking the bucket, in any case, Van is taken as a slave and tossed into a salt mine. One night, a pack of peculiar mutts assaults the salt mine, and a puzzling sickness breaks out. During the assault, Van accepts the open door to get away, and he meets a little youngster. Somewhere else, talk is spreading that solitary settlers are catching this secretive disease. The therapeutic researcher Hossal put his life in to danger in order to scan for a fix. Specialists additionally study a dad and kid who appears to have endures the sickness. The books recount to the interconnecting stories and obligations of the individuals who battle against a coldblooded destiny.

In 2015 the novel was honored with the Japan Booksellers’ Award and also won the fourth Japan Medical Novel Award.

Both of the novel series Moribito and The Beast Player Erin by Uehashi got an anime series version. A live action series version was also made based on the Moribito. In English the first two volumes of Moribito was issued by North American publisher Scholastic. In 2014 Uehashi was awarded with the Hans Christian Andersen Author Award.