Yutaka Yamamoto’s original anime project Hakubo (Twilight) announced on April 20 that it has added Sora Amamiya (Tokyo Ghoul’s Tōka Kirishima, Aldnoah.
The crowdfunding campaign for the anime met its goal of 15 million yen (about US$137,000) on April 24.
Yamamoto is planning the anime as the last of his self-described “Tōhoku trilogy” set in Japan’s Tōhoku region in the northeast.
(The previous two Tōhoku projects, blossom and Wake Up, Girls!, were set in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture and Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, respectively.)