The Twitter account for the Kadokawa Bunko novel imprint revealed on Wednesday that Nahoko Uehashi’s (Moribito, The Beast Player Erin) Shika no Ō (The Deer King) fantasy novel series has an anime project in the works.
The novels won the Japan Booksellers’ Award and won the fourth “Japan Medical Novel Award” in 2015.
Uehashi’s Moribito and The Beast Player Erin novel series both received television anime adaptations.
Kadokawa originally published the novels in two volumes simultaneously in September 2014, and then rereleased the series in four volumes in June and July 2017.