Makoto Ueda, who wrote and supervised the scripts for anime adaptations of Morimi’s The Tatami Galaxy and Night is Short, Walk On Girl novels, returned to pen the script for this film.
Yuasa returned to adapt Morimi’s Night is Short, Walk On Girl (Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome) at his Science SARU studio, and the film premiered in April 2017 in Japan.
Madhouse previously adapted Morimi’s The Tatami Galaxy (Yojō-Han Shinwa Taikei) novel into a 2010 television anime under director Masaaki Yuasa.
Hiroyasu Ishida and Studio Colorido’s anime film adaptation of Tomihiko Morimi’s penguin highway novel won the “Axis: The Satoshi Kon Award for Excellence in Animation” award for Best Animated Feature.