Hakubo in particular follows youths living in “the now and present” in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011.
Yamamoto is planning the anime as the last of his self-described “Tōhoku trilogy” set in Japan’s Tōhoku region in the northeast.
He came to the decision after special preview screenings of Hakubo in Iwaki, Tokyo, and Osaka.
Yamamoto launched a Kickstarter campaign in order to create English subtitles and expand the anime’s theatrical premiere in Fukushima.