Konaka has announced a graphic novel serialization in Japanese magazine Animage which will last for one year, with the story penned by him and artwork provided by ABe. Details on the storyline were scarce as ABe stated that the anime has not been officially unveiled in Japan, but revealed that it will be set during Japan's Taishō era. He also announced that he will be working with many of the staff who worked on Serial Experiments Lain. He announced that he will be developing a new anime. The serialization was re-published as its own book in Apby Tokuma Shoten as a Roman Album.ĭuring Sakura-Con 2009 held on April at Seattle, Washington, famed character designer Yoshitoshi ABe first revealed the project. Ain also created computer monitors able to predict the future, her associate Takeshita, a 30 year-old man, sells these "prophecies", to the Japanese military and the aristocracy to fund for Ain's inventions.Ī graphic novel serialization relating to the anime is being published in Japanese magazine Animage, beginning from its July 2009 issue. The story centers around a 12-year-old girl named Ain, who often builds devices despite the lack of scientific background for them, one of her ongoing works is a mysterious robot which she refers to as Father.
The sci-fi alternative period story is set in Tokyo during the Taishō era in 1922, one year before the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. An echo depicting a man and a girl looking into the future. In the Taisho era, when the brilliant European culture permeated and when the civil rights movement, the women's social advancement began, a footsteps that rushed toward destruction began to echo, in the chaotic Asakusa Jūnikai.