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Ao Oni The Animation Anime Film's 1st Promo Video Reveals Main Staff
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The official website for the Ao Oni: The Animation anime film began streaming a promotional video on Friday that reveals the film's main staff.
The film, in comparison to the upcoming television anime comedy series, will be closer to the traditional mystery horror of the original game, although it will have a new story that is different from the original game, novelization, and live-action films. Toshirō Hamamura (3D director on Chivalry of a Failed Knight, Wake Up, Girls!) is directing the film at Studio DEEN (When They Cry - Higurashi, Hell Girl), and Takemaru Abiko (Kamaitachi no Yoru, The Starship Damrey) is writing the film's script. noprops id credited with the original work. The film is slated to open in 2017.
Crunchyroll is streaming the upcoming Aooni The Blue Monster (Ao Oni: The Animation) television anime shorts starting on October 2. The shorts will be a comedic take on the original story with the familiar characters drawn in super-deformed style. Hamamura is serving as chief director of the TV anime series alongside director Chisei Maeda (Wasimo's ending animation) at Studio DEEN. The artist kichi is adapting the original character designs by Kyuta Sakai (Steins;Gate, When They Cry - Higurashi) for animation. Kanekoke is supervising and writing the series scripts. The animation is credited to maxcaffy, Kagi, Poeyama, and Sena Makino. Shiyu Yanagida is composing the music, and Dax Production is producing the sound.
Ao Oni is a horror game that makes the player solve various puzzles and riddles in order to escape a demon in a locked or enclosed space. The game first debuted as a free game released online in 2004. The game is available to play in both Japanese and English. Publisher PHP Institute released a novel inspired by the game in Japan in February 2013. The franchise also inspired two live-action films in July 2014 and July 2015.
