Well, that’s going to mess up a lot of marketing and materials that have been produced so far.
Because of studio manglobe entering bankruptcy, the film they were working on with Genocidal Organ has now been delayed with no firm date set yet. In place of its November 13th, 2015 debut, the December 4th release of Harmony will now move up there as the Project Itoh film of choice. That has a new trailer being released to promote the new date.
All three films have already been picked up for North American release in 2016 from FUNimation. The film is being produced alongside the Genocidal Organ and The Empire of Corpses films where Harmony will be directed by Takashi Nakamura and Michael Arias at Studio 4℃.
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Tuan Kirie
- Yoshiko Sakakibara as Oscar Shtaufenberg
- Shinichiro Miki as Elliya Vashirof
- Akio Ohtsuka as Asaf
- Aya Suzaki as Cian Reikado
- Cho as Keita Saeki
- Junpei Morita as Nuaza Kirie
- Reina Ueda as Miach Mihie
Project Itoh is the pen name of Satoshi Ito, a 34 year old science fiction novelist in Japan who died in 2009 but had some strong works. Two of his works are being brought to life in anime form with Genocidal Organ and Harmony, both of which have been released in North America by the book imprint of Viz Media, Haikasoru. Ito wrote for only two years before his death but left behind some fascinating works to be adapted.
Plot concept: In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn’t that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It doesn’t work, but one of the girls–Tuan Kirie–grows up to be a member of the World Health Organization. As a crisis threatens the harmony of the new world, Tuan rediscovers another member of her suicide pact, and together they must help save the planet…from itself.
