Animation studio GONZO on Tuesday unveiled a brand new video for its ‘SAMURAI cryptos’ blockchain and NFT venture, titled ‘SAMURAI RELIGION’.
Ai Yokoyama (character design and lead animation director for House battleship Tiramisu sequence, character design and animation for Bayonetta: Bloody destiny movie) directed the video and was additionally in command of the storyboard.
The “SAMURAI RELIGION” video options the character track for Amakusa Shiro titled “Gloria (feat. Nozomi TanabeMikey, B Swamp & Mayuko Kubota)” by AI singer Topaz. The AI singer was created by the most recent AI singing software program from GEMVOX venture.
The venture “SAMURAI cryptos” was launched in 2021. GONZO president Shinichiro Ichikawa mentioned the venture will create “a brand new period of animation for the NFT period with Japanese samurai” and can give attention to the key phrases “Cypher”, “Decentral” and “Solidarity”. The venture contains designs from Makoto Kobayashi (Final exile, Cell go well with Gundam ZZ), Michinori Chiba (Basilisk, Sk8 the infinity), Hiroya Iijima (Afro-samurai, Mazinger Z: Infinity), Attain Murata (Final exile, Solty King), Junichi Takaoka (The Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk), Ugetsu Hakua (Cracked angel), and Ai Yokoyama.
Former Winax members based the anime studio GONZO in 1992. The corporate merged with Shinichiro Ishikawa‘S Digimation firm in 2000 and a brand new father or mother firm, GDH (which stands for Gonzo digitization Holdings), was shaped. GDH absorbed GONZO in 2008 and adopted the title GONZO for themselves. Listed on the Tokyo Inventory Alternate GONZO in 2004, however the firm was taken non-public in 2009. The corporate was restructured by funding funds, and Asatsu DK acquired and created GONZO a consolidated subsidiary in 2016. The corporate carried out an “absorption-type company cut up” in 2019, transferring a part of its anime manufacturing, mental property, and rights administration operations to the then newly shaped firm. Studio KAI firm.
Supply: GONZO‘S YouTube channel