With the marketing campaign having shifted to Harmony recently, we’ve got another new trailer that has arrived for the film due out on November 13th, 2015 instead of its original December 4th. The focus of this one is on the new theme song for it from EGOIST that kicks in around halfway throughout and kind of teases it more than letting it dominate. The track is called Ghost of a smile.
All three films from this particular project 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℃.
The cast for the film includes 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 and 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.
