'Hikari no Ou' Announces Additional Staff, Winter 2023 Premiere

by DatRandomDude
Sep 21, 2022 6:21 AM | 16 Comments

Satellite broadcasting station WOWOW opened an official website for the television anime adaptation of Rieko Hinata's Hikari no Ou (The Firecatcher Lord) novel on Wednesday, revealing additional staff members and a teaser visual (pictured). The anime is scheduled to premiere on January 2023.

Staff
Director: Junji Nishimura (Basilisk: Ouka Ninpouchou)
Series Composition, Script: Mamoru Oshii (Vlad Love)
Character Design: Takuya Saitou (Monster Hunter Stories: Ride On)
Chief Animation Director: Takuya Saitou, Kazuchika Kise (Hirune Hime: Shiranai Watashi no Monogatari), Toshihisa Kaiya (World Trigger)
Music: Kenji Kawai (Mob Psycho 100)
Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi (Vanitas no Karte)
Studio: Signal.MD

Holp Shuppan began publishing post-apocalyptic fantasy novel in December 2018, featuring artworks by Akihiro Yamada—known for his illustrations in Fuyumi Ono's Juuni Kokuki (The Twelve Kingdoms) novel series and Bones's original sci-fi mecha anime RahXephon. The fourth volume shipped in September 2020.

Official site: https://hikarinoou-anime.com/
Official Twitter: @hikarinoouanime

Source: PR Times

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so finally they announced broadcasting date... um so same producers as ergo proxy which is also post apocalyptic so i am kinda optimist this have potential to be good and staff also looking great.

Sep 22, 2022 4:54 AM by Firemax

This sounds very promising so I'll definitely check this one out....It's kinda giving me To Your Eternity vibes too

Sep 21, 2022 11:22 AM by Tokoya

The novel Looks interesting enough. Plus it's completed it's story with 4 vol, so i wonder if it's will be a complete adaptation. Anyways looking forward to this high fantasy

Sep 21, 2022 11:20 AM by Adampk

TheNextDoor said:

Maou_heika said:

Are you trolling? While it's true that he tried to fix the plot holes from the LN for Kyo Kara Maoh but more than half of the series is just made up of fillers with some plot sprinkled towards the end of the episode, he took out or changed a lot of scenes from the first 2 arcs but then added unnecessary fan-service in the OVA and S3, not to mention the sub-par animation and inconsistent art style that changed every few episodes, art looks like absolute undetailed shit when they aren't focusing on the character's faces.

I haven't seen the OVA. And I also haven't read the LN so I can't tell much. I enjoyed the series myself, doesn't mean everyone needs to

Oh, I see. I thought you were trolling me since I always mention my dislike for Wolfram in AD section, my bad.

Sep 21, 2022 9:10 AM by Maou_heika

looks promising enough

Sep 21, 2022 8:57 AM by Stacias

Maou_heika said:

TheNextDoor said:

Yeah depends, he directed the Kyou Kara Maou series which was good, but what he did to Basilisk is unforgivable

I haven't seen the OVA. And I also haven't read the LN so I can't tell much. I enjoyed the series myself, doesn't mean everyone needs to

Sep 21, 2022 8:41 AM by TheNextDoor

TheNextDoor said:

Maou_heika said:
Premise sounds interesting but knowing Junji Nishimura is involved, it's going be a flaming piece of trash.

Yeah depends, he directed the Kyou Kara Maou series which was good, but what he did to Basilisk is unforgivable

Sep 21, 2022 8:38 AM by Maou_heika

Tsarko said:
Super excited for this. An adaptation of genuine fantasy novel is rare these days. And the staff is stacked.

I.G port gave another chance for their newbie subsidiaries Signal MD haha

Sep 21, 2022 8:09 AM by lehuy0210

Maou_heika said:
Premise sounds interesting but knowing Junji Nishimura is involved, it's going be a flaming piece of trash.

Yeah depends, he directed the Kyou Kara Maou series which was good, but what he did to Basilisk is unforgivable

Sep 21, 2022 7:50 AM by TheNextDoor

Premise sounds interesting but knowing Junji Nishimura is involved, it's going be a flaming piece of trash.

Sep 21, 2022 7:33 AM by Maou_heika

Super stacked staff, very excited even if Oshii is not directing it

Sep 21, 2022 7:31 AM by TheNextDoor

Some big names but other than Oshii, none of them really appeal to me, so skip for now. As for Winter 2023, I already have 3 anime so I'm good.

Edit : I didn't even see Kazuchika Kise involved, that's really cool.

Sep 21, 2022 7:28 AM by Etherius_ZS

Super excited for this. An adaptation of genuine fantasy novel is rare these days. And the staff is stacked.

Sep 21, 2022 7:23 AM by Tsarko

omg yay. I was hoping putting this in ptw would manifest new news

Sep 21, 2022 7:15 AM by daddymahitowo

Well, it seems that Kubo-san still remains the only thing worth checking out during winter 2023.

Sep 21, 2022 7:03 AM by Swagernator

Finally something interesting other than Vinland Saga S2 coming out in Winter 2023.

Sep 21, 2022 6:59 AM by ZXEAN