New anime alert! The JETRO (the Japan External Trade Organization) collaborative anime projects Future Kid Takara and Hana, The Last Diviner finished their Kickstarter campaigns on Monday after reaching their financial targets. The children's anime Samurai Pirates from Picona, the cutout-style animation Heike Monogatari Emaki from Ekura Animal, and the anime The Top Loft from Gorilla all terminated their campaigns short of their corresponding US$22,896, US$76,327, and US$34,805 targets.
On January 1, Studio 4°C revealed the first trailer for the original anime movie, now called Future Kid Takara. The Kickstarter campaign began on January 10 with a 3,000,000 yen (US$23,097) fundraising target. The campaign received 3,323,185 yen (US$25,141) from 196 backers by the time it was over. The money raised through the Kickstarter campaign will be used to create a fan community and pay for a pilot video. Although investment in the movie is reportedly steadily rising, Studio 4°C said it intends to use the pilot video to win over more financiers.
The movie is being made at Studio 4°C under the direction of Yuta Sano (Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - Memorial Edition, RedAsh -GEARWORLD-). Tekkonkinkreet, Dorohedoro, and Blood Blockade Battlefront's art director Shinji Kimura is in charge of worldview design in addition to creating the original characters.
Seita Emori, an environmental scientist, is the science adviser, and author and climate documentarian Kyoko Gendatsu is the project adviser. The sci-fi supervisor is writer Yya Takashima (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury). The producer of the animation is Shun Hasegawa, and the producer is Eiko Tanaka.
In order to lower its carbon emissions while producing the movie, Studio 4°C is tackling the topic of global warming. The studio quotes the Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which claims that making rapid, significant changes is the only way to prevent a temperature of 1.5°C.
The year 2025, which Studio 4°C thinks to be significant because it is the "final chance to protect our Earth," is when the movie is scheduled to be released. In a statement, Studio 4°C said that rather than using a textbook method, it wants to use the approach of an animated film to help people grasp the problem.
The adventure movie aimed towards families features a little kid named Takara and is set in a dystopian future. Sera, a young woman from the present, travels through time to 2100, where she and Takara must survive in a world where global warming has caused havoc on the environment.
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