 Publishing company Kadokawa announced on Monday that Nahoko Uehashi's Shika no Ou (The Deer King) novel series is receiving an anime film adaptation. The film is being produced by animation studio Production I.G (Ghost in the Shell, Haikyuu!!).Synopsis The Lone Antlers, a band of death warriors, gave their lives to save their homeland from the empire of Zol. Van, their leader and the sole survivor, is enslaved in a salt mine. One night, savage dogs attack the mine, and soon after, a mysterious disease wipes out both the slaves and their keepers. Van, however, escapes with a little girl called Yuna. Meanwhile, Hohsalle, a gifted physician, searches for a cure for the disease that is spreading among the Zolian settlers. What path will these men choose to save their loved ones and the people of this land? (Source: Official website) Kadokawa published the fantasy novel in two volumes in September 2014 and later reprinted the series in four volumes in June and July 2017. Commemorating the author's 30th anniversary, the company will ship the sequel novel, Shika no Ou: Minasoko no Hashi (The Deer King: Underwater Bridge), on Wednesday. The novel series has a cumulative 1.9 million copies of its volumes in print. Shika no Ou won the Japan Booksellers' Award and the fourth Japan Medical Novel Award in 2015. Special site: https://promo.kadokawa.co.jp/shikanoou/ Source: Comic Natalie Shika no Ou on MAL |
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| holy shit. i know this series length is perfectly for long movies and world building could be cut off without much of harm. but it was wishful thinking of me, didn't expect it to be actually happened. |
 "If taking responsibility for a mistake that cannot be undone means death, it's not that hard to die. At least, not as hard as to live on." |
| Omg an adaptation of another of Nahoko Uehashi's novels?!? Her works are easily the best among what fantasy genre has to offer in anime. I'M SO EXCITED!!! |
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| I'm looking forward to it. |
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| Nahoko Uehashi's works and Production I.G are the mach made in heaven. Really excited for this! Hopefully we get more Seirei no Moribito novel adaptations in the future as well. |
| Newly I saw Seirei no Moribito, i've to say that i enjoyed it and it seems like a wonderful anime, So I hope this! |
  What do I like? Well, myself, of course! I'm the flower of Olympia, after all! |
| premise looks good, and always love a bit of production ig |
AnimeFreak-San said: is this a male gender issure...human issue...mental illness perhaps? |
HungryForQuality said: May I ask what you had gripes with? I personally consider it the best fantasy anime and it's a favourite too, so I'm rather curious.Seirei no Moribito was pretty good although I had serious gripes with it. |
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| Sounds really promising overall. |
| This is going to be so good! Can't wait |
HungryForQuality said: fullmetalbender said: Of course. May I ask what you had gripes with? I personally consider it the best fantasy anime and it's a favourite too, so I'm rather curious. I see where you're coming from for a couple of them, like certain subplots and pacing. However, on the whole I'd say it's possibly a matter of perspective because I either a) didn't find them to be an issue or b) regarded those aspects as 'how it should be' for this particular story. I'm afraid I don't have the time (nor energy - admittedly >o<) to go into detail about each of the points, but I do commend you for such a thorough write-up in response to my question! |
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| Okay, I had no idea that the woman who wrote Kemono no Souja Erin was behind this until now. Consider me hyped. |
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