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Yūki Kaji, child actress Honoka Yoshida star in dystopian future series of shorts




On Tuesday, NHK Enterprises and Studio 4°C announced that their original animation production will be titled "Future Kid Takara" and will have a short animation format. They also released a poster visual, trailer video, main cast information, and announced that it will premiere at the Osaka World Expo 2025 on September 25th.

In the upcoming anime, Yūki Kaji will portray Takara, a youthful character who journeys through time from the year 2100, while Honoka Yoshida will voice Sara, a contemporary girl.

The anime consists of 11 short episodes, each lasting five minutes. Initially, it was classified as a movie.

In partnership with JETRO, the anime short was created as part of a campaign on Kickstarter to fund new anime projects involving five different studios, including Studio 4°C.

The Kickstarter campaign page ( link ) According to Future Kid Takara, as of December 28th, 2023, they have collected a grand total of 3,323,185 yen (approximately US$22,200), which surpasses their initial goal of raising 3 million yen.

Yuta Sano ( Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - Memorial Edition , RedAsh -GEARWORLD- ) is directing the anime at Studio 4°C . Shinji Kimura (art director for Blood Blockade Battlefront , Dorohedoro , Tekkonkinkreet ) is designing the original characters and is also in charge of worldview design. Author and climate documentarian Kyoko Gendatsu is the project adviser, and environmental scientist Seita Emori is the science adviser. Writer Yūya Takashima ( Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin , Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury ) is the sci-fi supervisor. Shun Hasegawa is the animation producer and Eiko Tanaka is the producer.

The anime is focusing on the issue of climate change, and Studio 4°C is taking measures to decrease their carbon footprint during film production. They are referencing the Sixth Assessment Report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which highlights the severity of this matter. ( link ) To prevent global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, drastic measures must be taken immediately by everyone involved.

In the year 2100, a young boy named Takara lives in a world where global warming has caused significant damage to the planet. Sera, a girl from the present, travels through time to this futuristic world and must join forces with Takara to navigate their way through this dystopian landscape.

According to Studio 4°C, they plan on releasing their anime in 2025 with the intention of addressing the climate crisis during this crucial time. They believe this is their last chance to protect our planet. Instead of educating people through a textbook approach, they want to use an animated film to convey the severity of this crisis.




Source: Press release