{"id":47154,"date":"2019-12-11T15:16:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T07:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/?p=47154"},"modified":"2019-12-11T15:18:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T07:18:47","slug":"qoo-news-spirited-away-animator-directs-anime-film-adaptation-of-award-winning-novel-shika-no-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/post\/47154\/qoo-news-spirited-away-animator-directs-anime-film-adaptation-of-award-winning-novel-shika-no-o","title":{"rendered":"[Qoo News] “Spirited Away” Animator Masashi Ando Directs Anime Film Adaptation of Award-winning Novel \u201cShika no \u014c\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anime film adaptation of the award-winning fantasy novel \u201cShika no \u014c \/ The Deer King\u201d (\u9e7f\u306e\u738b) is confirmed to premiere in Japanese theatre on 18th September 2020.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPrincess Mononoke\u201d, \u201cSpirited Away\u201d and “Your Name”<\/span>\u00a0animation director Masashi Ando (\u5b89\u85e4\u96c5\u53f8) makes his directorial debut, alongside co-director Masayuki Miyaji (\u5bae\u5730\u660c\u5e78). Ando also serves as the animation director, while \u201cHaikyu!!\u201d scriptwriter Taku Kishimoto (\u5cb8\u672c\u5353) provides the screenplay. The anime film is produced by Production I.G.<\/p>\n

\u25bcOfficial imaginary visual for the characters<\/h5>\n

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\u258d<\/strong><\/span>About Shika no \u014c<\/h4>\n

Shika no \u014c is a Japanese fantasy novel series written by Nahoko Uehashi (\u4e0a\u6a4b \u83dc\u7a42\u5b50) and has won the champion of 2015 Japan Booksellers’ Award (2015 \u672c\u5c4b\u5927\u8cde), a well-acclaimed prize based on votes by bookstore clerks from all over Japan. A sequel, \u201cShika no \u014c The Bridge under the Water\u201d was published in March 2019. The series has been sold for over 190,000 copies.<\/p>\n

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The novel follows Van, the leader and the sole survivor of the Lone Antlers, who are known to be a band of fierce warriors fought for their countries. Defeated and wounded, Van was captured and enslaved in a salt mine. One night, savage dogs attack the mine, and soon after, a mysterious disease wipes out both the slaves and their keepers. Van is lucky enough to survive (again), together with a little girl called Yuna. Since that day, he vows to protect the girl no matter the costs.<\/p>\n

Official Site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am so excited about this! I love the novel so much!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[773,19],"tags":[6270,4,7670,7672,4545,7667,7668,7673,7671,7669],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/19121107110887.jpg?fit=840%2C473&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe8G4K-cgy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}