Sunao Katabuchi might be best known for directing the Black Lagoon anime series. The Mourning Children: Nagiko and the Girls Wearing Tsurubami Black is quite a different story.
The story is set in the 10th century and in Kyoto, at the same time as the real-life Sei Shonago wrote The Pillow Book, and it’s teased that that literary figure might also appear in the story. The anime was screened at the Kyoto International Manga and Anime Fair this month.
Black Lagoon is high octane, but The Mourning Children: Nagiko and the Girls Wearing Tsurubami Black feels sombre and features the horrors of an epidemic.
Yūji Kaneko is the art director who previously worked on such esteemed titles as Ranking of Kings, Little Witch Academia and Kill la Kill, and that’s a change as Toshiharu Mizutani was initially believed to be in charge of art.
Via Anime News Network.
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