Himekawa Art Productions and SANYO Reveal Details about Music Video and Game for Marin; Comic and Animation in Planning Stages
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Akira Himekawa, known for their works on titles such as The Legend of Zelda and My Little Pony, in partnership with SANYO, one of Japan's largest pachinko producers, announced during New York Comic-Con 2018 a multimedia project for Marin, the idol mascot of the "Umi Monogatari" or "Sea Story" pachinko series.
Panels held on Friday, October 5 at both the Javits Center and at Pier 94, during the inaugural Anime Fest @ NYCC, revealed exciting details for the upcoming project by Himekawa Art Productions. Fans can look forward to the first two works, a comic to be helmed by Akira Himekawa and an anime, in the Spring of 2019. Work on the anime will be done in collaboration with Dynamo Pictures. Meanwhile, two more products, music videos and a mobile app game featuring Marin, are expected to be in production within the next six months.
"The production process has been different [with this first project]," said Akira Himekawa on the Marin project, "This time, it's not based on a manga, I created the character design and art first. We are going to keep producing even more with everyone in the team going forward."
Western fans can look forward to interacting with Marin in several new ways in the coming months.
For more information please visit www.SeaStoryMarin.com and www.facebook.com/SeaStoryMarin.
About Himekawa Art Production
Himekawa Art Production is a new art production studio from Akira Himekawa. They focus on creating manga comics, character design, character art, visual art for both licensed and unique IP. Aside from notable characters like Legend of Zelda, My Little Pony and Astro Boy, Himekawa Art Production creates many original art designs and manga for a global audience.
About SANYO
SANYO is one of Japan's largest pachinko producers. They are best known for the Pachinko games called "Umi Monogatari" or "Sea Story" series. Since the first "Umi Monogatari" release in 1999, it has been the most popular Pachinko machine in Japan and the main character, "Marin chan," has become the most recognizable characters in the market to date. SANYO also sells pachinko machines and slots machines using IP from many other comics, anime and movies.
About DYNAMO Pictures
Dynamo Pictures is a CG and motion capture studio creation high quality contents for movies, amusement park attractions, videogames, anime, commercials and VR/AR titles using their specialty techniques and studio.
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