{"id":5121,"date":"2002-07-29T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-29T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/07\/29\/new-international-anime-production-announced\/"},"modified":"2002-07-29T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-29T16:23:00","slug":"new-international-anime-production-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/new-international-anime-production-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"New International Anime Production Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California based visual development company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaworuseven.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Akira Creative<\/a> has announced plans to create a full CG animated film involving both Japanese and American animation studios. The project is currently early in the pre-production stages and is tentatively titled &#8220;Project Requiem.&#8221; Project Requiem is a co-production of &#8220;The Kaworu Seven,&#8221; seven artists\/employees of Akira Creative, and Japanese publishing company Tekkon Ink. The &#8220;Kaworu Seven&#8221; include Akira Creative founder and President Akira Tezuka, a former visual artist for Squaresoft whose credits include Final Fantasy 7-10; Vice President Makoto Sayori, producer and animator on anime including Graveyard of Fireflies, Mononoke Hime and Spirited Away; Ichiyo Kamehiko, development and background artist on anime including Macross Plus, Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop and RahXephon; Nobuo Takahashi, Squaresoft development artist and animator on games including Kingdom Hearts, The Bouncer and Parasite Eve 2; Hajime Kaneko, development artist and animator on anime including Akira, Trigun, Jubei nin Pocho and Metropolis; Shirow Tadayuki, development artist and CG artist on anime including Ghost in the Shell, End of Evangelion and FLCL; and American animator and writer &#8220;Vicious Iori.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsservice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Service<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California based visual development company Akira Creative has announced plans to create a full CG animated film involving both Japanese and American animation studios. The project is currently early in the pre-production stages and is tentatively titled &#8220;Project Requiem.&#8221; Project Requiem is a co-production of &#8220;The Kaworu Seven,&#8221; seven artists\/employees of Akira Creative, and Japanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}