The K2 Pictures movie and video works company has announced that the K2P Film Fund I, will finance several projects, including an anime film adaptation of the GIGANT (ギガント) manga by Oku Hiroya. The anime adaptation will be the studio’s first animated feature project.
Oku (Gantz, HEN, Inuyashiki) serialised the manga from December 2017 to September 2021 in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Superior magazine. Shogakukan published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in May 2018 and the 10th and final volume in December 2021.
Seven Seas Entertainment has published all of the manga volumes in English under the name GIGANT, and it describes the manga story below:
“Rei Yokoyamada, a high schooler whose father works for a film production company, is inspired to create his own short film with his friends. One day, while out to find actors, he spots tabloid-like notices that the adult film star Papico lives in his area. When he takes them down to protect her, he runs into the woman herself. Little does he know that Papico is about to get dragged into a strange, supernatural happening…where she grows to the size of a giant!”
