Tailenders Long Trailer Released

Anime Innovation Tokyo, a production initiative that sponsors short anime films from independent, talented, upcoming animators, has released a new “long version” trailer for the Hokkaido-based Picograph studio’s sci-fi racing action film Tailenders. The project has been in development for a least a year, and doesn’t have a release date. However, the Anime Innovation Tokyo sponsored short film Cencoroll was in development for over two years before getting scheduled for a public release.

Tailenders is the story of promising race car driver Tomoe Shiro. When he nearly dies in an accident, he’s saved by having his natural heart replaced with the core of his car’s engine. However, now deemed deemed an automobile part, he’s banned from racing as a driver. So Shiro migrates to a distant frontier planet where racers barred from sanctioned racing are allowed to drive.

This looks like a really thrilling hybrid of the styles of manga-ka Sin-Ichi Hiromoto and animator Takeshi Koike. Hopefully we won’t have to wait years to actually see this.

Source: Manganimation