AKIRA animator Takashi Nakamura's original anime film OROCHI -Seventh Echoes- gets a pilot film
Takashi Nakamura, the animator behind work on AKIRA and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, is directing an original anime film, OROCHI -Seventh Echoes-. BLUE RIGHTS' pilot film introduces Agni, a boy whose power awakens Orochi, a calamity believed dead for 1,000 years, in Kukulkan, a land held together by sound waves. The pilot features the theme song "Zankyo" by neNna. There's no release date, studio or cast yet, and BLUE RIGHTS says the final film may differ from the pilot.
