Animation studio GONZO revealed Thursday that its blockchain and NFT challenge “SAMURAI cryptos” will unveil a brand new video for the challenge, titled “SAMURAI RELIGION,” on the studios YouTube channel on October 15. Ai Yokoyama (character design and lead animation director for Area battleship Tiramisu sequence, character design and animation for Bayonetta: Bloody Destiny movie) directed the video and can also be liable for the storyboard.

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The video “SAMURAI RELIGION” options the character tune 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 challenge.

AI singer Topaz

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The challenge “SAMURAI cryptos” was launched in 2021. GONZO president Shinichiro Ichikawa mentioned the challenge will create “a brand new period of animation for the NFT period with Japanese samurai” and can deal with the key phrases “Cypher”, “Decentral” and “Solidarity”. The challenge consists of designs from Makoto Kobayashi (Final exile, Cellular 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 mum or dad firm, GDH (which stands for Gonzo digitization Holdings), was fashioned. GDH absorbed GONZO in 2008 and adopted the title GONZO for themselves. Listed on the Tokyo Inventory Change GONZO in 2004, however the firm was taken personal in 2009. The corporate was restructured by funding funds, and Asatsu DK acquired and created GONZO a consolidated subsidiary in 2016. The corporate performed an “absorption-type company break up” in 2019, transferring a part of its anime manufacturing, mental property, and rights administration operations to the then newly fashioned firm. Studio KAI firm.

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