The official website of songwriter and manga creator JIN’s Kagerou Project mixed-media project revealed on Thursday that there will be a short anime movie to be released in Winter 2016. The production claims the anime is the first “short movie” in Japan to be produced exclusively with MX4D presentation in mind. The theatrical anime titled MX4D Kagerou Daze -in a days-, will be based on JIN’s Kagerou Days novel series.
The theatrical anime will be directed by the manga’s illustrator and character designer, Sidu. The movie is to be produced by 1ST PLACE/JUMONJI.
The Kagerou Project, also known as Kagerou Daze, is a Japanese mixed-media project. It started as a Vocaloid song series created by Jin (Shizen no Teki-P). The story revolves around the Mekakushi Dan, a group of teenagers with unusual eye-related powers.
The series became popular on the video sharing website Niconico after the release of the song “Kagerou Daze”, which also gave the series its name. The song has amassed over 3 million views and is the most popular song of the project. Six light novels have been released, written by Jin and illustrated by Sidu. A manga adaptation with illustrations by Mahiro Satou (佐藤まひろ Satō Mahiro?), began serialization in Monthly Comic Gene on June 15, 2012. A 12-episode anime adaptation titled Mekakucity Actors —”Mekakucity” being a portmanteau of “mekakushi” (“blindfold” in Japanese) and “city”—aired between April 12 and June 28, 2014. The series was directed by Akiyuki Shinbo and produced by Shaft.
Kagerou Project synopsis from Haruhichan:
A story based on the popular series of songs by Jin (Shizen no Teki-P) titled Kagerou Project. Shintarou Kisaragi—a NEET who shut himself inside his room for 2 years—has been living his life normally until he met a cyber girl named Ene, who appeared in his computer screen when someone anonymously sent him a mysterious e-mail one year ago. One day, Ene had been messing with Shintaro’s PC, which causes him have to go to the outside world for first time in two years.
Source: Kagerou Project official website
