Netflix Japan announced today that Nippon Chinbotsu 2020 / Japan Sinks 2020, a ten-episode web anime series based on Sakyo Komatsu’s 1973 bestseller sci-fi novel Nippon Chinbotsu / Japan Sinks, is set to be streamed worldwide in 2020.
The novel has been adapted into live-action three times: the 1973 feature film directed by Shiro Moritani, the 1974-1975 TV drama (26 episodes), and the 2006 feature film by Shinji Higuchi (Shin Godzilla).
Massaki Yuasa (Mind Game, Lu over the Wall), who previously worked on DEVILMAN crybaby for the streaming service in 2018, is attached to direct at his own production studio SCIENCE SARU.