Anime Tenchou Turns Ten With Touhou

Anime production studio ufotable (Manabi Straight!, Kara no Kyoukai) has announced its participation in the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Animate specialty store’s mascot character Anime Tenchou. The 10th anniversary celebration will consist of 10 projects. Ufotable will produce at least two of them: the first and third.

Project 01 is an “Anime Tenchou Gekijouban” (Anime Manager Movie) commercial. Project 03 will be a short “Anime Tenchou Collabo 10-ban Shoubu Round 1” anime featuring both Anime Tenchou and characters from the massively popular doujin shooting game franchise Touhou Project. This will be the first Touhou anime produced by a major commercial anime studio. Both short anime will premiere on November 20 at the ANIMATE Ichioshi Bishoujo Matsuri publicity event in Tokyo.

Touhou Project creator ZUN has responded to the announcement saying that the Anime Tenchou/Touhou anime cross-over is a “derivative work” which he recognizes and allows but has no involvement in.

Hideaki (Evangelion) Anno & Hiroyuki (Gurren Lagann) Imaishi created the original 2002 Anime Tenchou promotional video – seen below – based on Kazuhiko Shimamoto’s manga.

Source: Anime News Network