During March’s 10th anniversary Noitamina festivities, the alt-audience anime programming block announced that, following Psycho-Pass, their next movie will be a 2015 adaptation of the work of Satoshi Itō, a sci-fi novelist who wrote under the name Project Itoh, and who passed away in 2009 at age 34. Leading into this, the source novels will be re-released in Japan August 8th with new covers by Redjuice.
Before becoming an established digital artist and web designer, Redjuice worked designing and maintaining cold storage equipment. He has worked with Supercell, including producing the illustration “The World is Mine,” as well as Livetune’s Re:package, designed character for the TV anime Guilty Crown, and illustrated Satoshi Hase’s novel Beatless.
Previously
Viz’s Haikasoru sci-fi prose label, which publishes the novels in English, describes the source material…
In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn’t that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It doesn’t work, but one of the girls—Tuan Kirie—grows up to be a member of the World Health Organization. As a crisis threatens the harmony of the new world, Tuan rediscovers another member of her suicide pact, and together they must help save the planet…from itself.
The war on terror exploded, literally, the day Sarajevo was destroyed by a homemade nuclear device. The leading democracies have transformed into total surveillance states, and the developing world has drowned under a wave of genocides. The mysterious American John Paul seems to be behind the collapse of the world system, and it’s up to intelligence agent Clavis Shepherd to track John Paul across the wreckage of civilizations and to find the true heart of darkness—a genocidal organ.
Project Itoh also novelized Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker was dedicated to his memory.
Metal Gear’s Hideo Kojima…
A new @PJ_Itoh twitter feed has also launched
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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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