Final Fantasy’s Yoshitaka Amano has a new anime on the way called Zan

Yoshitaka Amano has an original limited anime in production titled Zan, based on his dark fantasy art project Deva Zan, which was compiled into an official artbook in 2013. The anime’s trailer will debut at Anime Expo in Los Angeles on July 3. The project dates back to 2010, when Amano founded Studio Devaloka and announced a 3D anime movie called Zan.

After several years of silence, the film was rebooted into a series in 2022. A press release describes the series as blending original and newly created artwork by Amano with expressive hand-drawn animation, calling Zan a dark fantasy epic that crosses time and space through dynamic action, sword battles, and visually striking heroes.

The series is being developed by Yoshitaka Amano Inc. Veteran staff attached include animation directors Masashi Ikeda and Toru Toshida, principal animator Moriyasu Taniguchi, series composer Ryosuke Takahashi, writer Yuya Takashima, and art directors Kunio Ogawa and Minoru Nishida.

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