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Kiku-chan to Ōkami Tale to be Animated for August Airing (Updated)
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The Shin-Ei Animation studio has launched a website on Wednesday for its August anime adaptation of the Kiku-chan to Ōkami (Kiku-chan and the Wolf) wartime fable, and also posted a silent trailer. Grave of the Fireflies author Akiyuki Nosaka wrote the original Toshi-Oi Mesu-Ōkami to Onna no Ko no Hanashi (The Story of the Old Mother Wolf and the Girl) tale about a girl and the wolf in the fields of World War II Manchuria who watches over her like a mother. The television special, the seventh in Shin-Ei's Sensō Dōwa (wartime fable) series, will premiere in Japan in the middle of August. Shin-Ei animated the Futatsu no Kurumi (Two Walnuts) wartime story last year.
Source: Saishin Anime Jōhō
Image © 2008 Shin-Ei Animation Co., Ltd.
Update Location of the story corrected to Manchuria. Thanks, dormcat.
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