Dai Shogun Anime Announced

The most titillating TAF 2009 related announcement yet is, by far, a new multimedia project called Enka Oudou Dai Shogun - encompassing everything from anime, manga and novels, to figures, illustrations, 3D computer graphics and drama CDs. The brains behind this project are the toy makers from Yamato (with modeler Mitsumasa Yoshizawa and co-creator / illustrator Shunya Yamashita), and the studio comissioned for the animation is Studio Anima.



The first figure prototype for the project will be shown in a couple of days at Anima's booth from the Tokyo International Anime Fair, and the chosen character is Kikiro Abe - presumably pictured above. Limited edition posters will also be up for grabs, and let's hope that the additional details promised for the event will include more about the anime, whose website is pretty barren at the moment.

Studio Anima, by the way, are known for their animation work on games like Ninja Blade, Way of the Samurai 3, Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriot, Valkyria Chronicles, or Suzumiya Haruhi no Tomadoi.