Director Shuhei Morita , nominated for an Oscar for his role in Katsuhiro Otomo 's Short Peace , revealed the first short in the series and titled Chō Kidō Gaiku KASHIWA-NO-HA (“Super Mobile Block KASHIWA-NO-HA”). The story takes place in 2018 and centers on a family looking for a new home. The family visits an apartment show room in a complex and as they tour the city they discover that some of the apartment blocks can be transformed into giant robots.
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The construction projects are based on the smart city of Kashiwa-no-ha in Chiba Prefecture, with a robot that is explicitly based on the Ichiban-gai building of the Park City Kashiwa-no-ha campus. For the production of this short, Goki Nakamura served as artistic director, while Daisuke Sajiki designed the characters. The voices of the protagonists will be performed by Yuichi Nakamura , Norikawa and Toshiyuki Sakamoto Maaya .
Morita will release the next series of shorts on October 8th. At the moment, it is said that there is a manga adaptation titled Kashiwa-no-ha no Sora no Shita, translated as (“Under the sky of Kashiwa-no-ha”), which can be read on the web at Comic Walker by Kadokawa and has been performed by Fumio Aya .
Source: ANN
