Production IG, perhaps best known for their work on the Attack on Titan animated series, is heading up a Netflix original anime titled Perfect Bones.
The series will become the first original anime to debut all episodes simultaneously in 190 countries, Netflix wrote in an announcement. Perfect Bones will also be the first anime to premiere only on Netflix.
“We are incredibly excited to work with Production I.G., who have worked on hit series such as Attack on Titan and Psycho-Pass,” said Netflix International Originals VP Erik Barmack, “in bringing one of the most daring new anime titles produced today to all Netflix members and anime fans around the world.”
Perfect Bones will be directed by Kazuto Nakazawa, who also directed the animated sequence in Kill Bill Volume 1 and designed characters for the wonderful Samurai Champloo. The anime will feature a sci-fi setting steeped in the themes Production I.G. established in works like Psycho-Pass and Ghost in the Shell, so expect some flavor of cyberpunk dystopia.
“The 12-episode series is set in the future where scientists have tried to create the ‘perfect human’ in hopes of keeping peace in the universe,” the announcement reads. “After nearly achieving their goal through several children, the scientists send their ‘new humans’ for further training where they are kidnapped by an evil organization set on using their powers to implement their own concept of a new world order.”
Thanks, DenOfGeek.
