With the recent pickup of the Towa no Quon series of features films by Sentai Filmworks, they’ve revealed a bit about what’s in store for it. The BONES animated release has quite the pedigree behind it with the first film as it’s directed by Umanosuke Iida (Hellsing, Mobile Suit Gundam MS 08 Team, Mighty Space Miners) with script supervision by Saizo Nemoto (Kikaider, Tokyo Majin 2) and character designs by Toshihiro Kawamoto (Cowboy Bebop, Wolf’s Rain, Golden Boy). And one of the big pluses for a number of fans, especially older fans like myself, the music is being done by Kenji Kawai (The Ring, Dark Water, Skycrawlers, Pat Labor, Ranma ½, Blue Seed & Sorcerer Hunters.)
Sentai Filmworks will be releasing this on DVD and Blu-ray next year while The Anime Network is gearing up for the digital distribution of the feature this month on its service. It’ll start on Thursday, October 13 via The Anime Network at 1 PM Eastern, with a new part available every two weeks and it’ll require a subscription to the service to view. Distribution on additional services and platforms will follow in 2012.
RELEASE SCHEDULE:
Starting Thursday, Oct. 13th at 1 PM Eastern
Part 1 – 10/13
Part 2 – 10/27
Part 3 – 11/10
Part 4 – 11/24
Part 5 – 12/08
Part 6 – 12/22
Plot concept: No man, not even a superhuman man can stand alone if the adversary he faces is powerful enough; and as a new breed of human called Attractors slowly begin to awaken in a Tokyo of the future, they find themselves the prey of a sinister and faceless secret organization called Custos. But there is strength and safety in numbers and a leader is emerging among the Attractors, a young man with healing powers named Quon, who knows that the only way for the Attractors to survive is to join together and hit the cyborgs of Custos back. Hard. And with allies like the super-speeded Yuri, psi-voiced Kiri, telepath Tei and teleporter Takao, he’s beginning to form the army to do it! Anime, superhero and epic sci-fi come together as a who’s who team of Japan’s greatest animators join forces to produce an all new legend: TOWANOQUON!