No real information was revealed last year when it was announced that the ZAN anime based on the DEVA ZAN artwork from Yoshitaka Amano was getting done as an anime series. We mostly just had a lot of producer credits to its name and association with the larger ZAN project that includes things like a blockchain game and NFT artwork.
The last main update was in 2023 when it was revealed that the project has been reoriented as a theatrical project set for 2026 – or later. The film has been in various stages, going back to 2010 when Amano first talked about the adaptation of his work and that he had been developing it since 2000.
Now, a new update has come in regarding the staff and it looks like it’s brought on board some names that will delight a segment of fans as it draws on a lot of mecha folk from VOTOMS with Ryōsuke Takahashi, Masashi Ikeda, Tōru Yoshida, and Moriyasu Taniguchi, and Kunio Ōkawara. Check out their respective credits to see why folks will be getting excited about it, as they all have a lot of well-known classics to their name.
Masashi Ikeda is directing it with Toru Yoshida, with series scripts by Ryosuke Takahashi. Moriyasu Taniguchi is the chief animation director, while Kunio Okawara is serving as the mechanical designer.
The Japanese cast includes:
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Book Summary: In Japanese Buddhism, twelve generals—the Juni Jinsho—stood guard over the cosmos at the points of the zodiac. But now they have vanished, and nothing stands between us and the forces of darkness, except Deva Zan, a samurai without a memory. To restore order to existence, he must marshal not only his own fighting skill, but find companions that can cross the boundaries of time and space—to join him in a battle that will stretch from the fields of ancient Japan, to the streets of modern New York City—and to dimensions beyond human comprehension!
Dark Horse has the honor to publish Deva Zan, Yoshitaka Amano’s first fantasy novel as an author as well as an illustrator!After an epic ten years of planning, Amano has made Deva Zan his personal expression of the legends of Asia for his Western readership.
[Source: ANN]
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