Piano no Mori was previously adapted into an anime theatrical film in 2007 with direction by Masayuki Kojima and animation by Madhouse.
Piano no Mori was originally serialized from 1998 – 2015 in Kodansha’s Monthly Younger Uppers and Weekly Morning seinen manga magazines.
Piano no Mori (“Forest of the Piano”), a seinen manga by Makoto Isshiki about a young man who teaches himself music on an abandoned piano that he found in the woods, is being adapted into a TV anime that will broadcast on the NHK network in April of 2018.