Toei Animation has announced that Kazuyoshi Takeda’s award-winning manga Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise will be receiving an animated film adaptation at the end of this year. The film’s release coincides with the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.A special trailer has been released as part of the announcement:
Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise Trailer
Plans for an anime adaptation were originally announced back in 2021.Goro Kuji (Chained Soldier) will direct the film, marking his movie directorial debut. Takeda will collaborate with Junji Nishimura to pen the screenplay adaptation of the manga.Peleilu: Guernica of Paradise was serialized in Hakusensha’s Young Animal from 2016 to 2021 and won the Japan Cartoonists Association Award’s Excellence Award in 2017. A spinoff manga series, Peleilu Gaiden, is currently running in Young Animal.The series is described thus:
The island of Peleliu. A paradise on earth where the Japanese soldier Tamaru, a draftsman in civilian life, disembarked in the summer of 1944, at the end of the Pacific War. The Eden turns into hell when the American fleet decides to invest it… 50,000 Japanese and American soldiers kill each other around an airport considered strategic at the time. The American army dispatched 40,000 elite soldiers, while the Japanese army faced up to the situation with a reserve of 10,000 soldiers, having received orders to resist to the last.
Source: Comic Natalie
