(CR) Hikari no Ou (The Fire Hunter) Anticipation

[Stark700]

Rieko Hinata's fantasy novel series "Hikari no Ou" is receiving an anime adaptation as a WOWOW original, animation production: Signal.​MD.

Some more info on plot and premise

The novel series' story is set in a world in the chaotic aftermath of humanity's Last War. A great forest, infested with flameling creatures and other fallen beasts, covers the world, and pockets of humanity live in small protected communities. Due to a special weapon used in the Last War, human beings spontaneously burst into flame even when merely getting close to a small source of fire. The only safe energy source for humanity lies within the bodies of flamelings, and the duty to hunt them falls to the sickle-wielding firecatchers who brave the depths of the great forest. Among the firecatchers, they whisper tales of one who would be "Firecatcher Lord," an individual who will be able to harvest the fire of the thousand-year comet, the "Wandering Spark" that has flown in the sky since it was sent up before the Last War, but is now returning to earth.

The story begins with Touko, a young girl from a paper-making town who finds herself in the forbidden forest, assailed by flamelings, when a flamecatcher rushes to protect her. In another place, a young capital-born boy named Kōshi shelters his younger sister after losing his mother to factory poison.

Source

https://www.wowow.co.jp/info/info.ph...d=7106&which=0
https://twitter.com/AIR_News01/statu...18940701040640

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...novels/.165988

[Stark700]

Staff announced

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...-oshii/.182047

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by Stark700

Staff announced

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...-oshii/.182047

Wow, Mamoro Oshii...

[Guardian Enzo]

And Nishimura Junji, too. Very intriguing.

[Stark700]

Airs January 2023

https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-ne...ditional-staff

[pinoscotto]

teaser:
https://twitter.com/HikarinoOuAnime/...60433739075584

[Last Sinner]

Is Oshii finally getting serious again? If so, count me in...

[Blaat]

Not only did it take me multiple times to not read the title as Hikaru no Go and thinking "there is going to be a new Hikaru no Go anime?!" but I just realised the title says Hikari not Hikaru. I really need to work on my reading comprehension.

Anyway interesting first episode, animation wise it's not as strong as other Oshii's work but he makes up for interesting shots and visuals. As for the setting looks like yet another post-apocalyptic setting and in this one humans were genetically changed to combust when they're close to fire? Leading to a world where there's no fire. It's going to be interesting to find out how every thing works without fire but it looks like they have a bunch of "it's technically not fire" solutions considering they can still cook food.

[Dop]

I was really taken by this one. Impressed me more with its first episode than any other show this season. I really want to know more about this world, how it became the way it is and the way things are the way they are as we certainly saw a difference between the village way of life and the city way of life.

[Kanon]

I went in blind, knowing only that Oshii was involved. I was not disappointed.

The series has interesting visual and the premise is very intriguing. Before the narrator corrected my mistake, I definitely thought this was a story set in the past. I didn't realize Touko never spoke a word until she actually did speak. Was surprised that Misaki Kuno is not voicing a loli character (albeit she's still young).

Really loved that the Aunt actually cares dearly about her. When her cousin's hostility toward Touko was made clear, I thought she was in one of those situations where she was reluctantly taken it by her Aunt after her parents died, which is surprisingly common in anime. But nope, it's just the cousin being a bitch.

Not sure how the guy's story will interweave with Touko's. Definitely interested in any case.

[Guardian Enzo]

Originally Posted by Blaat

Not only did it take me multiple times to not read the title as Hikaru no Go and thinking "there is going to be a new Hikaru no Go anime?!" but I just realised the title says Hikari not Hikaru. I really need to work on my reading comprehension.

Anyway interesting first episode, animation wise it's not as strong as other Oshii's work but he makes up for interesting shots and visuals. As for the setting looks like yet another post-apocalyptic setting and in this one humans were genetically changed to combust when they're close to fire? Leading to a world where there's no fire. It's going to be interesting to find out how every thing works without fire but it looks like they have a bunch of "it's technically not fire" solutions considering they can still cook food.

Oshii has nothing to do with the visuals - he's only writing (which is interesting in itself).

Obviously, pretty special. So Moribito-like, especially with the incomparable Kawai Kenji providing the music.