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Anime director Yutaka Yamamoto (Yamakan) posted on his Twitter account last week that even if the crowdfunding campaign on his new Hakubo (Twilight) original anime film project does not meet its goal, he plans to continue production on the project.

The campaign seeks to raise 15 million yen (about US$131,598) to fund production, and as of press time has raised 5,570,515 yen (about US$48,680) with 52 days remaining. The campaign will end on April 29. The film is slated for 2018.

Yamamoto is planning the anime as the last of his self-described "Tōhoku trilogy" set in Japan's Tōhoku region in the northeast. Hakubo in particular follows youths living in "the now and present" in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. (The previous two Tōhoku projects, blossom and Wake Up, Girls!, were set in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture and Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, respectively.)

Yamamoto said that he first conceived of the project's initial concept two decades ago when he was in college. When he mulled over what would be a good perspective to depict Fukushima, he recalled this idea from his past and set it in Tohoku.

"A way of life that could be anywhere, experienced by a girl who could be anywhere.
A life that could be anywhere.
A love that could be anywhere."

Yamamoto will post the original novel that inspired the anime on the web.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-03-08/yutaka-yamamoto-will-produce-twilight-anime-film-even-if-crowdfunding-fails/.113081

They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall but in time, they will join you in the sun, Yamakan.

In time, you will help them accomplish wonders.