Post-apocalyptic anime Hikari no Ou (The Fire Hunter) has revealed a visual and premiere date for January 2023.
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Synopsis
The story begins with Touko, a young girl from a paper-making town who finds herself in the forbidden forest, attacked by flamelings, when a flamecatcher rushes to protect her. Elsewhere, a young man born in the capital named Kōshi shelters his younger sister after losing his mother to factory poison.
Despite the brief synopsis, the light novel takes place in a world in the chaotic aftermath of humanity's apocalyptic Last War. A great forest, infested with flame 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, humans spontaneously burst into flames even when just approaching a small source of fire.
However, now the only source of energy is within the bodies of the flamelings, beings hunted by the firecatchers who brave the depths of the great forest. The firecatchers whisper stories of an individual who would be able to harvest the fire from the thousand-year-old comet, the “Wandering Spark”, this person would be known as the “Firecatcher Lord”.
Staff
Junji Nishimura ( VladLove ) is directing the anime at studio Signal.MD ( Platinum End ) and Mamoru Oshii ( Ghost in the Shell ) is supervising and writing the script. Furthermore, Takuya Saito ( Macross Zero ) is the character designer and also chief animation director along with Kazuchika Kise and Toshihisa Kaiya. Kenji Kawai handles the music while Kazuhiro Wakabayashi is the sound director.
Finally, author Rieko Hinata released the light novel Hikari no Ou in December 2018, with illustrations by Akihiro Yamada .
Source: Comic Natalie
