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Voltron's Steve Ahn Launches Kickstarter Campaign for Animated Project Featuring Former Ghibli Artist Shiho Sato

Director Steve Ahn (Voltron: Legendary Defender, The Legend of Korra assistant director) launched a Kickstarter campaign on Thursday for a new animation project titled Blossom Detective Holmes: Selfie With a Strange Intruder. The project already has a finished first episode, and the campaign aims to raise US$60,000 to fund a second episode, with further episodes as stretch goals. Other stretch goals include an English dub, animated opening and ending sequences, and a theme song by a K-Pop artist. The campaign will run until March 3.

Character designer Christie Tseng and background designer William Niu reunited with Ahn from Voltron: Legendary Defender and The Legend of Korra for this new project. Former Studio Ghibli background artist Shiho Satō (The Wind Rises, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, When Marnie Was There) is the project's color script artist, while background artist Mi Yeon Kim (Children Who Chase Lost Voices, Mazinger Edition Z: The Impact!) is the project's art director.

The production plans to release all funded episodes in summer 2019.