The novels won the Japan Booksellers’ Award and won the fourth “Japan Medical Novel Award” in 2015.
Toei announced on Thursday that it has delayed the opening date for the anime film of Nahoko Uehashi’s Shika no Ō (The Deer King) medical fantasy novel series to 2021.
The North American publisher Scholastic published the first two volumes of Moribito in English.
The novels tell the interconnecting stories and bonds of those who fight against a cruel fate.