Today GKids announced that it had secured the licence to
Future Boy Conan, the 26-episode, 1978 post-apocalyptic animated series from Nippon Animation. It’s best-known outside of Japan for the fact that it was Miyazaki’s first work as a solo director on a series, after co-directing the likes of
Lupin III
Part 1 with Isao Takahata and working as an animator and storyboard artist.
It’s set in the then-far-future of 2021 a decade after a devastating war on Earth took the planet off its axis, destroying entire continents and wiping out much of humanity’s population. The series follows the titular Conan, an 11-year-old boy used to secluded life on Remnant Island, before he crosses paths with a young girl named Lana after she washes up on his home’s shore. Soon becoming fast friends, Conan and Lana decide to travel across what’s left of Earth, discovering what’s left of human society and facing adventure and danger in equal measure.
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