Prolific manga author and director Katsuhiro Otomo announced a new anime film titled Orbital Era at his Anime Expo panel on Thursday.
The title marks Otomo’s third feature anime film as a director, following Akira and Steamboy.
Orbital Era is set in the near-future on a space colony under construction.
The film features a coming-of-age action-adventure story following the lives of young boys surviving in this peculiar environment and society as they are tossed around by fate.