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Neofilms Posts Chinese-Subtitled Trailer for Blame! Anime Film
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Hong Kong film distributor Neofilms began streaming a Chinese-subtitled trailer for the Blame! anime film on Tuesday. The film will have its theatrical premiere in Hong Kong as part of the J-Toons Festival. The movie will have screenings on December 9 and 10, as well as on January 6.
Blame! premiered worldwide on Netflix on May 20. Hiroyuki Seshita (Ajin), who previously co-directed the anime adaptation of Nihei's Knights of Sidonia manga series, directed the film at Polygon Pictures. Nihei himself handled the film's script and character design, and also served as "creative consultant."
Nihei launched the science-fiction action story Blame! as his first manga series in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine in 1997, and ended it in 2003. Tokyopop published the 10-volume manga in North America. Kodansha published a new "master's edition" of the manga in Japan in 2015 that had six volumes. Vertical is releasing this new version of the manga in English.
The manga inspired a new novel adaptation written by Tow Ubukata (Ghost in the Shell Arise, Psycho-Pass 2 series composition) that shipped on May 26. The series also inspired an anthology of short stories, written by the following science-fiction authors: Issui Ogawa (The Lord of the Sands of Time), Nozomu Kuoka (Escape Speed light novel series), Tobi Hirotaka (Autogenic Dreaming: Interview with the Columns of Clouds), Denpō Torishima (Kaikin no Tada), and Mado Nozaki (Babylon, know). The anthology shipped on May 31.
