Colorful Anime Film Announced

News from the Tokyo International Anime Fair have been slowing down today (was about time), but we still get a new announcement here and there. Take Colorul, for example: it's a new anime film planned for 2010, currently in the works at studio Sunrise with director Keiichi Hara overseeing the project. Among others, he previously directed some Crayon Shin-chan movies and the 2007 film Summer Days with Coo. No, not that Summer Days...



The movie will be based on a 1999 novel by Eto Mori, that was also made into a live-action film (not to be confused with the pantsu manga & anime Colorful). Even though the novel's cover pictured above is anything but exciting, the original story about a man reincarnated as a suicidal teenager does sound rather interesting.

"The "heart-warming comedy" follows a person who finds himself trapped outside the normal endless circle of life and death. Thanks to "winning" a lottery in the angel world, the protagonist is brought back to inhabit the body of a 14-year-old boy - who is planning to commit suicide. Thus, the protagonist begins a new life."

With such abstract art for the original novel, I wonder how the anime movie will look like.