As Production I.G celebrates its 20th anniversary, the Japanese animation house
announced a new original project titled Ghost Hound (Shinreigari / Ghost Hound) at The Tokyo Int’l Anime Fair, which wraps up on March 25 at Tokyo Big Sight. The series is written by Production I.G staff and Ghost in the Shell scribe Shirow Masamune, and will premiere in Japan this fall on WOWOW.
The main crew behind Ghost Hound includes director Ryutaro Nakamura (Serial Experiments Lain, Kino’s Travels), scriptwriter Chiaki J. Konaka (Serial Experiments Lain, The Big O) and character designer Mariko Oka (Jigoku Shojo, Jing: King of Bandits). The story will be co-developed by Crossroad.
A Ghost Hound comic book drawn by Kanata Asahi will start serializing on March 30 in Japan’s Monthly Comic Blade, a publication of Mag Garden.
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