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Ani-One Asia Streams Island of Giant Insects Anime
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Hong Kong content distributor MediaLink Entertainment Limited's Ani-One Asia YouTube channel added The Island of Giant Insects anime film on Sunday.
The theatrical film edition of the anime of Yasutaka Fujimi, RED ICE, and Shu Hirose's The Island of Giant Insects (Kyochū Rettō) manga opened in Japan in January 2020. The original OVA shipped in Japan on DVD in a limited-edition bundle with the manga's sixth compiled book volume in June 2019.
The survival horror story begins when Mutsumi Oribe and her classmates are flying for a school field trip, and their plane crashes. They drift onto an island dominated by giant insects. The tagline for the anime is, "On that island … humans are merely insect fodder."
Takeo Takahashi (Spice and Wolf, Aki Sora) served as chief director of the anime at Passione, and Shigeru Morita (Arpeggio of Blue Steel - Ars Nova) wrote the script. Takayuki Noguchi (Queen's Blade: Rebellion) designed the characters.
The film's staff ran a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for an English dub in February 2020, but that campaign failed to reach its goal. A later campaign in July 2020 reached its goal in August 2020.
Source: Ani-One Asia's YouTube channel
