Kenji’s Spring Website Opens

Tokyopop has opened a very attractive homepage for their first anime video release, Spring and Chaos: The Life Story of Kenji Miyazawa (Kenji no Haru). The hour long OAV directed by Shoji Kawamori (Macross, Escaflowne) features extensive expressionistic style and CG animation, and retains the characteristic personified cats as humans first used in Night on The Galactic Railroad, the novel by Kenji Miyazawa most recognizeable to Westerners.

Spring and Chaos is scheduled for release exclusively to DVD on May 29th with a retail price of $29.99. The DVD will feature an art gallery, exclusive interview with director Shoji Kawamori, and the bilingual OAV itself with optional English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, and Korean subtitles. As a special bonus, each copy of the DVD will include a “limited edition anime cel.”