Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tekkon Kinkreet (aka Black & White)
is the very same manga masterpiece started in 1993 as a serially publication in Weekly Big Comic Spirits (like Crying Freeman, Maison Ikkoku, Tokyo Love Story, among many others ) .
This december the 23rd will finally see the release of the Animé version in Tokyos theaters, 7 years after the the first pilot movie was made.
An awesome dream team ’s been cast around Studio4°C, including Hinji Kimura (Steamboy) , the animator Shoujirou Nishimi (Akira, Mind Game) and the technical director Hiroaki Ando (Steamboy).
>>Click here or on the image to view Japanese trailer< <
To celebrate the event, PingMag met Eiko Tanaka, the woman presides the animation studio (who was behind My Neighbor Totoro as well), and cooked with resfest a great article showing the behind the scenes, with tons of infos on the making of, many original artworks and process videos to look at. Yum ^^.
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Janus says:
I’ve got two things to point out…”including Hinji Kimura (Steamboy)”&”technical director Hiroaki Ando (Steamboy).”
No thank you… Steamboy was enough to put me asleep. take one dose of steamboy with two doses of cyanide.
Dec 14, 2006, 4:47 amNeoBlade says:
Steamboy was indeed awful but this animé is pretty stunning. Simon watched it while he was in Japan and this is one title I’m looking forward to.
Dec 14, 2006, 2:02 pm