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Ghost in the Shell's Mamoru Oshii to Adapt Baku Yumemakura's Chimera Novels for Screen
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The agency of novelist Mamoru Oshii will adapt Yumemakura's Chimera novel series for the screen. The photograph is of the 13th Chimera volume Datenshi-Hen (Fallen Angel Metamorphosis, shown right), which shipped in Japan on Wednesday.
The announcement does not specify if the project will be animated or live-action, nor does it specify if the project is planned for film, television, video, or another format. It also does not specify if Oshii will direct, write, or produce the project.
The series centers on Kō Ōtori, a normal high school student who experiences a repeating dream of being eaten by a beast from inside himself. When Kō meets Reiichi Kuki, the elite student who rules his school, the encounter awakens hidden powers inside him.
Yumemakura published the first volume in the series in 1982. The first bunkobon edition of the series had 16 volumes from 1982 to 2002, and the series was re-released in a larger tankōbon edition in eight volumes from 2000 to 2002. Shirow Miwa.
Yumemakura is a prolific writer, whose works have been adapted into manga, anime, and live-action. These works include Garōden.
Oshii is known for writing and directing numerous animated films, original video anime (Patlabor projects.
The 1995 science fiction animated feature The Sky Crawlers.
Oshii Toonami block in March 2017.
Thanks for Gwyn Campbell for the news tip
[Via Renato Rivera Rusca)]
Update: Corrected language about Oshii's live-action works. Thanks, Arale Kurashiki.
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