AnimationEigo‘S Kickstarter crowdfunding marketing campaign for the Blu-ray Disc launch of the The Dagger of Kamui anime film titled The Dagger of Kamui Treasure Trove Version has reached its purpose on the primary day of the marketing campaign. On the time of writing, the marketing campaign has acquired US$74,125 from 812 backers. The unique marketing campaign purpose was US$50,000. The marketing campaign started on Saturday and can finish on September 24.
The challenge’s confirmed set content material consists of: the HD switch of the unique movie with English subtitles, SDH subtitles and captions, shade and line artwork galleries, a model new full-length director’s commentary monitor Rintarō and anime historian Masahiro Haraguchi, names of backers listed on the disc, and a reversible cowl slip. The discharge won’t be area locked. AnimationEigo can even produce an 8.5 x 11 inch artwork e-book, and a digital archive of extra manufacturing supplies together with timing sheets, scripts, digicam briefs, press clippings, analysis notes, and extra.
Rewards embody the BD-50 Blu-ray Disc, artbook, and a cardboard slipcase.
AnimationEigo describes the story:
On the eve of the Meiji Restoration, as a sleeping Japan awakens and appears west, an innkeeper finds a child named Jiro floating in a ship; his solely companion a glittering sword, the Dagger of Kamui. When Jiro is 13, his adoptive household is murdered and Jiro is blamed, solely to be saved by Tenkai, a priest, who trains him within the mysterious arts of the Ninja. Searching for revenge for the lack of his adoptive household, Jiro kills the mysterious one-armed Ninja who is claimed to have killed them.
Years later, appearing on a tip from Tenkai, Jiro tracks down his actual mom, solely to find that Tenkai had tasked his father with discovering a clue to Captain Kidd’s misplaced treasure. With the treasure in hand, the Shogun will have the ability to preserve management, and Japan will as soon as once more isolate itself from the world. Nevertheless, his father fell in love, deserted the search, and had a baby — and for this failure, Tenkai took horrible revenge!
Now the chase begins, as Jiro, aided solely by the Dagger of Kamui, units out seeking the nice treasure. A quest that can take him all the way in which to the American Wild West, with Tenkai’s henchmen all the time scorching on his heels.
If Jiro can discover the treasure and return to Japan, he could possibly take revenge and plunge Kamui’s dagger into Tenkai’s black coronary heart!
Rintarō directed the movie at MadhouseThe movie first premiered in Japan in 1985. AnimationEigo launched the movie on VHS and Laser disk within the Nineteen Nineties and launched the movie on DVD in 2003.
Supply: Kickstarter through Justin Sevakis‘ X/Twitter account
