Toho Animation featured a new preview of the movie Shika no Ou on their YouTube channel.
Also known as The Deer King, it is one of the most anticipated films on the Japanese animation scene. Based on the series of novels produced by Nahoko Uehashi in 2014, which acquired a stir in the land of the rising sun.
In this new preview we see more of the moving story that Production IG adapts, directed by the great director Masashi Ando, with a long career in the industry and legendary works as a character designer in works such as Mononoke Hime and Paprika.
But Ando will not be alone, since Masayuki Miyaji will take the role of co-director with the living legend, being one of his most frequent collaborators and his right hand with the position of assistant director in Spirited Away.
For his part, Taku Kishimoto, who usually writes for anime like Haikyu !! and Fruits Basket will be responsible for writing and supervising the script for Shika no Ou.
Shika no Ou
Nahoko Uehashi’s novel was published in 2015, under the Kadokawa seal in two volumes that were reprinted in mid-2017, this second time being where the work wins most of its current audience.
The story stars Van, who leads a group of soldiers who are expected to die fighting for their lands against a great empire that intends to incorporate the territory into its dominions.
Instead of dying, Van ends up being captured and working as a slave in a salt mine, when one night, a pack of strange dogs attack the mine, and a mysterious disease begins to spread.
During the attack, Van takes the opportunity to flee, and meets a girl who also managed to escape the epidemic and whose lives will join those of the doctor Hossal, who risks everything to find a cure to the epidemic that Van and her managed to survive. little.
A story that intertwines the lives of those who fight a cruel fate in Shika no Ou.
