It’s a busy day on the Project Itoh site as one of the projects coming up has had a lot revealed about it. The feature film The Empire of Corpses has now revealed its premiere date of October 2nd, 2015 and will be directed by Ryoutarou Makihara based on the character designs by redjuice with animation done by WIT STUDIO. The site has revealed the new promo teaser that you can see below as well as the first visual for it to the right. EGOIST will be performing the theme song for this feature film, which you can hear in the promo below.
The cast includes Yoshimasa Hosoya as John H. Watson, Ayumu Murase as Friday, Taiten Kusunoki as Frederick Barnaby,Daiki Yamashita as Nikolai Krasotkin, Shinichiro Miki as Alexei Karamazov, Kana Hanazawa as Hadary Lilith, and Akio Ohtsuka as M.
Plot concept: Taking place in 19th century Europe, and revolves around John Watson. He is scouted by the government to become a secret agent- However, Watson lives in a world where “Frankensteins”- human corpses that are re-purposed with a false soul in order to use them as laborers- are used to improve industrial development.
[Source: ANN]
This looks excellent.