Two years after the Kickstarter campaign for anime project "Under the Dog" was announced at Otakon, Otakorp Inc. has announced that members of the creative team will attend the "Under the Dog" premiere at Otakon 2016.
In 2014, a group of anime industry veterans, including Sword of the Stranger's Masahiro Ando launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund production of 24 minute original sci-fi action anime with a $580,000 goal.
Creative staff on the project include Jiro Ishii (“428: In a Blockaded Shibuya,” “Canaan,” “Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors,” “Imabikiso,” and “Time Travelers”) as the original storywriter, Masahiro Ando (“Sword of the Stranger,” “Canaan,” “Hanasaku Iroha,” and “Blast of Tempest”) as the director, and Yusuke Kozaki (“No More Heroes,” “Fire Emblem: Awakening,” and “Fire Emblem If”) as the character designer.
Ishii will attend the Otakon premiere, along with producers Koji Morimoto and Muneki Ogasawara.
Jiro Ishii, the scriptwriter, says, "We’ll be bringing the 'Under the Dog' episode fresh out from the oven to celebrate the project’s achievement and share the premiere together with everyone at Otakon in Baltimore, where it was first announced!"
Producer Koji Morimoto said, "Director Ando and all the staff/cast have put amazing effort in making the original animation video, 'Under the Dog.' And it is finally here! The animation turned out to be truly incredible, so I’m looking forward on a big screen with the full-blast audio."
Otakon 2016 will be held August 12-14 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD. See more about the guester at http://ift.tt/2a0HCjI
Under the Dog Trailer (APR 2016) from Under The Dog on Vimeo.
Now the production is taking aim at a digital release for backers on August 01, 2016, and there's a new teaser trailer featuring Hana Togetsu squaring off against enemy soldiers.
The official home page for Under the Dog describes the story as follows:
"It is the year 2025, five years since devastating terrorist attacks put an end to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. The UN has taken control of the former Olympic site on the edge of Tokyo Bay, placing it beyond Japan’s jurisdiction.
Hana Togetsu is a seventeen-year-old high school student who lives in the area. Not your typical teen, she belongs to a special unit run by the UN. Hana is sent on a mission as a transfer student to a public high school on Enoshima Island.
Her target: Shunichi Nanase, a boy in her class.
As Hana is about to make contact with her target, a middle-aged man appears at the school asking for Shunichi. The situation turns critical when the American military arrives at the school in pursuit of the man.
As the bloodshed escalates, another teenage girl begins to make her way to the island to break the deadlock."
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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.
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