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Yutaka Yamamoto's 'Twilight' Anime Project's Teaser Reveals 2019 Release
posted on by Karen Ressler
The official 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 ($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. Twilight Studio will be in charge of animation.
The cast 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 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.