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Last February, Inu-Oh<\/em><\/a> director Masaaki Yuasa<\/a> announced the launch of ame pippin<\/a>, a new Tokyo-based animation studio<\/a> in collaboration with Asmik Ace, Aniplex, and CoMix Wave Films. There was no word then as to what Yuasa’s next project would be. That is, until now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Monday, Yuasa announced that he would direct Daisy\u2019s Life<\/a><\/em>, a Japanese-French co-production with Miyu Productions (Ghost Cat Anzu<\/a>) based on Banana Yoshimoto\u2019s novel Hinagiku no Jinsei<\/em>. The novel centers on Daisy, a six-year-old girl mourning the loss of her mother following tragic accident. After meeting a strange girl named Dahlia at her window one night, the pair embark on an adventure through space and time in search of hope, healing, and perspective.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven among the works of Ms. Banana Yoshimoto, this is a novel that evokes visual images throughout, and while there are parts that are vividly scary, the final passage is very happy, like something I had dreamed of in the past,\u201d Yuasa said in a statement published by Variety<\/a>. \u201cI would like to depict the life of the protagonist who works for a yakisoba restaurant in a downtown area with a 100-meter radius on a cosmic scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yuasa will be joined by screenwriter Sachiko Tanaka (Before We Vanish<\/em>, Asako I & II<\/a><\/em>) in adapting Yoshimoto\u2019s novel to animation. Most notably Yoshitomo Nara<\/a>, the Japanese painter who previously illustrated Daisy\u2019s Life<\/em> when it was published, will serve as the character designer for the upcoming feature. No information regarding the planned release date for Daisy\u2019s Life<\/em> has been announced.<\/p>\n

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Last February, Inu-Oh director Masaaki Yuasa announced the launch of ame pippin, a new Tokyo-based animation studio in collaboration with Asmik Ace, Aniplex, and CoMix Wave Films. There was no word then as to what Yuasa’s next project would be. That is, until now.\u00a0 On Monday, Yuasa announced that he would direct Daisy\u2019s Life, a Japanese-French co-production with Miyu Productions (Ghost Cat Anzu) based on Banana Yoshimoto\u2019s novel Hinagiku no Jinsei. The novel centers on Daisy, a six-year-old girl mourning the loss of her mother following tragic accident. After meeting a strange girl named Dahlia at her window one night, the pair embark on an adventure through space and time in search of hope, healing, and perspective. \u201cEven among the works of Ms. Banana Yoshimoto,…<\/p>\n

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