G (Ghost in The Shell, Miss Hokusai) is now working on an anime feature film adaptation of Nahoko Uehashi (Moribito series, The Beast Player)’s fantasy novel series Shika no Ō/The Deer King.
The series won the Booksellers Award and the fourth Japan Medical Novel Award in 2015, and has printed 1.9 million copies in Japan so far.
The novel was originally released from KADOKAWA in two-volume hardcover edition in September 2014, then re-released as four-volume bunko edition in June-July 2017.