After a lot of lead up and plenty of text based promotional videos in the last several months, the noitaminA block finally has given fans of the Project Itoh work Genocidal Organ a glimpse of what it will look like. The new spot has been added to their YouTube channel where we get a lot more text, an illustration card and about five seconds out of the thirty seconds that it runs of actual animation.
Shukou Murase will direct Genocidal Organ at studio manglobe.
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: The war on terror exploded, literally, the day Sarajevo was destroyed by a homemade nuclear device. The leading democracies transformed into total surveillance states, and the developing world has drowned under a wave of genocides. The mysterious American John Paul seems to be behind the collapse of the world system, and it’s up to intelligence agent Clavis Shepherd to track John Paul across the wreckage of civilizations, and to find the true heart of darkness—a genocidal organ.