


In 2017, the film was released after being finished by the newly formed Geno Studio.

Genocidal Organ was postponed indefinitely after the closing of studio Manglobe. All three films also feature theme songs by Egoist, designs by illustrator redjuice and were to be released in 2015. Genocidal Organ directed by Shuko Murase at Manglobe and Geno Studio, Harmony co-directed by Takashi Nakamura and Michael Arias at Studio 4☌ and The Empire of Corpses directed by Ryotaro Makihara at Wit Studio. All three films would be handled by different studios and directors. Noitamina, a Fuji Television programming block devoted to anime, announced that they would be adapting three of Itoh's novels into animated feature films. It was published in August 2012, and received the Special Award of Nihon SF Taisho Award. At the press conference after the announcement of Enjoe's Akutagawa Prize in January 2012, Enjoe revealed the plan to complete Itoh's unfinished novel The Empire of Corpses. Since then they often appeared together at science fiction conventions and interviews, and collaborated in a few works, until Itoh's death. Toh Enjoe's Self-Reference ENGINE was also a finalist of Komatsu Sakyō Award and published from Hayakawa Shobō in 2007, along with Itoh's Genocidal Organ. Hayakawa's S-F Magazine All-Time Best poll in 2014 ranked Harmony as the top of the Japanese SF novels.

Ī poll by the yearly science-fiction guidebook SF ga Yomitai ranked Genocidal Organ as the number one domestic sci-fi novel of the decade. He had written a tie-in novel based on the video game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. The video game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and afterwords of the last volume of the manga Aki Sora were dedicated to his memory. Although it did not receive the award, it was published by Hayakawa Publishing in 2007 and was nominated for the Nihon SF Taisho Award.įrom 2001, he had to be hospitalized frequently for recurrent cancer. While working as a web designer, he wrote Genocidal Organ and submitted it to the Komatsu Sakyō Award contest in 2006. Itō was born in Tokyo and graduated from the Department of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Musashino Art University. Project Itoh ( 伊藤 計劃, Itō Keikaku), real name Satoshi Itō ( 伊藤 聡, Itō Satoshi, Octo– March 20, 2009), was a Japanese science fiction writer and essayist.
