The show’s original script supervisor likes Serial experiments lie, Texhnolysis Y. Hellsing, Chiaki J. Konaka, released an update on the upcoming animation project from Yoshitoshi ABe (Creator and character designer of Serial experiments lie), entitled awakening. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the project was suspended for a year and several months. Konaka added that the production funding program was 80% complete and that core employees had worked hard until last year. He also mentioned that he had no plans to make an official announcement until 2022 with the restart of the project and confirmed that the staff are still working on it and asked fans to be patient.
In a separate announcement, the Amsterdam-based animation studios have Studio [notes.] announced that Konaka and ABe will be working on creating additional content for the horror RPG. Kowloon’s curse. The company launched a Kickstarter fundraiser for the project, with Konaka making the story and ABe doing the character design.
Finally the animation project awakening was paused after the director’s death Ryutaro Nakamura Subsequently, in October 2014, ABe mentioned that the project would continue production with a new director.
Despera synopsis
The title is derived from a poem by the Dada poet Jun Tsuji (1884-1944). The story revolves around Ain, a 14-year-old girl who builds equipment despite the lack of the necessary science. The science fiction story takes place in the Taisho era of Japan in 1922, a year before the great Kanto earthquake of 1923 in the Tokyo area.
Source: ANN
