GKIDS announced at the Annecy Animation Festival on Sunday that it has acquired the North American rights to Ghost Cat Anzu, Shin-Ei Animation and France’s Miyu Productions’ 2D-animated film based on Takashi Imashiro’s Bakeneko Anzu-chan manga.
The film will be 90 minutes long and will utilize mixed animation techniques combining 2D digital animation with rotoscopy.
Kodansha published the one-volume Bakeneko Anzu-chan manga in 2007.
Yōko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita are directing the film and Shinji Imaoka is writing its script.