The premium subscription television channel WOWOW announced on Monday that Junji Nishimura is directing the television anime of Rieko Hinata and Akihiro Yamada’s Hikari no Ō (The Firecatcher Lord) fantasy novel series.
Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, Angel’s Egg, Jin-Roh – The Wolf Brigade, Blood: The Last Vampire, Vladlove) is overseeing and writing the scripts.
The novel series’ story is set in a world in the chaotic aftermath of humanity’s apocalyptic Last War.
Hinata published the fourth book in the series on September 3, 2020, followed by a side-story volume on December 21, 2021.