Changes are afoot with the anime adaptation of the visual novel Island that’s set for release sometime this year. Previously, we learned that the main cast from the visual novel will be reprising their roles with:
- Yukari Tamura as Rinne Ohara
- Kana Asumi as Karen Kurutsu
- Rie Murakawa as Sara Garandou
That’s now taken a change as ANN is reporting on some convoluted discussions among the various production partners as Rie Murakawa has exited the production due to differences in some scripting and scene plans that she (or, more likely, her management company) wanted changed (likely in order to protect her own reputation through the character she was to portray). With much of this locked down, signed off on, and animated already, the end result is that she’s departed the show and Hibiku Yamamura is on board to take over the role of Sara Garandou.
Plot Concept: Urashima, an island far from the mainland. The people who live there lead carefree lives. But five years ago, the island’s three great families suffered a series of misfortunes, and succumbed to suspicion. The people of the island cut off all contact with the mainland, and began a slow decline. The key to saving the island lies in three girls who belong to the three families. But they are bound by old traditions, and are conflicted. On that island, a lone man washes ashore. The man claims to be from the future, and he begins a solitary struggle to change the island’s fate.
