Japan’s Nippon TV and UK indie Anyway Content are taking a comedy collection a few younger British lady following her dream of turning into a manga artist to MIPCOM Cannes.
The pair have struck a scripted co-development partnership for How you can be a Sensei, which is being penned by Itaru Mizuno, the a number of Asian Academy Inventive Award-winning director behind 2023’s breakout hit Rebooting, alongside award-wining British comedy author Zoë Tomalin, who writes for the likes of Have I Bought Information For You and Hypothetical.
In How you can be a Sensei, the protagonist takes her manga quest to Tokyo, the place she heads to a number of iconic and underground places. The collection of hour-long episodes are in superior growth following a writing room that was not too long ago held within the Japanese capital.
Nippon has labored with Mizuno on and off for greater than a decade and the pair most not too long ago mixed on Japanese hit Rebooting. London indie Anyway was launched two years ago at MIPTV by St. Trinian’s director Oliver Parker, ex-Purple Arrow Studios boss James Baker and Metro Worldwide Associate Sam Parker, and it has been constructing a slate since.
Mizuno stated: “Assembly the staff at Anyway Content material and dealing alongside my unbelievable accomplice, Zoë, has been a stroke of inspiration.”
Baker added: “Current successes have confirmed there may be an urge for food globally for storytelling that explores common themes by means of totally different cultures. The partnership with Nippon TV is pushed by the only intention of enabling this humorous, emotional and romantic story to be informed authentically by means of the sensible artistic minds and totally different views concerned.”
Nippon TV’s Head of World Scripted, Sayako Aoki, is enterprise producer for How you can be a Sensei with Baker, Head of Growth Kathryn Castles and Growth Govt Cassie Smyth driving the mission for Anyway Content material. Sayako can be at MIPCOM to debate the mission with potential financiers, commissioners, and manufacturing companions.
MIPCOM runs September 21 to 24. Yesterday, we revealed Estonia-Ukraine collab My Dear Mother, which is being distributed by Movie.UA.
