The manga series Gigant from Gantz‘ Hiroya Oku is getting adapted into an animated film. Japanese film company K2 Pictures, which is involved with a live-action film adaptation of the Look Back manga, made the announcement at the Cannes Film Festival as part of its new lineup reveal.
This will be the first animated title from K2 Pictures, which was founded in 2023. The film’s staff, cast, and animation production studio are currently unknown.
Gigant sees porn actress Papico gaining the ability to increase to gigantic proportions. It started serialization in 2017 in Shogakukan‘s Big Comic Superior and released its 10th and final volumes in 2021.
Seven Seas Entertainment’s synopsis of the manga reads:
Rei dreams of becoming a big-ticket film director, but when he stumbles into a chance meeting with a busty adult film star, his high school life takes a turn for the strange. Not only does his favorite porn star like him, she gains the power to grow to an enormous, towering size! Is alien technology to blame? Time travel? The end of the world? All manner of bizarre trouble lies ahead, and a gigantic, gorgeous woman is just the tip of the iceberg!
Oku’s Gantz and Inuyashiki have both inspired TV anime and live-action movie adaptations. Gantz also has a CG animated film.
In 2024, K2 Pictures announced the K2P Film Fund, with which it intended to work with investors worldwide to “provide support for Japanese features across both animation and live-action and… enable investors, creators and crew members to profit from the Japanese film industry.” Fundraising ended in February of this year with around 5 billion yen (US$31.4 thousand) raised.
The anime studio MAPPA is among its listed partners, and is said to be working with CEO Muneyuki Kii, an ex-Toei producer, on “the planning of two feature-length animations.”
Source: K2 Pictures website (via Comic Natalie)
