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Nahoko Uehashi's Kemono no Soja Gets Animated
Kodansha recently announced that Production IG and Transarts will produce an animated TV series based on Nahoko Uehashi’s 2006 novel series, Kemono no Soja (Beast Player>/span>).
Takayuki Hamana(Library War. Prince of Tennis) has been confirmed as the series' director. The title's screenplay will be written by Jun'ichi Fujisaku (Blood+, RD Sennou Chousashitsu). Character designs will be handled by Takayuki Goto, who worked on Hunter X Hunter and Please Save My Earth.
The Beast Player series focuses on a young woman named Erin, who has the ability to control animals(dragons included) as though she were playing a musical instrument. The story of the inter-kingdom war she's drawn into will premiere on NHK on January 10th at 6:25PM.
Nahoko Uehashi is best known for Seirei no Moribito, which received an animated adaptation in 2007. Media Blasters currently holds the rights to the Seirei no Moribito anime.