This year’s 30th issue of Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits magazine revealed on Monday that Uoto’s Chi: Chikyū no Undō ni Tsuite (Chi: On the Movements of the Earth) manga is inspiring an anime adaptation by Madhouse.
Uoto launched the manga in Big Comic Spirits in September 2020, and ended it on April 25.
The manga won the Grand Prize for the 26th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize awards in April.
Uoto is the youngest ever to win the Grand Prize at 24 years old.