{"id":101424,"date":"2024-10-31T09:28:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T16:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=101424"},"modified":"2024-11-01T22:56:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T05:56:42","slug":"gonzo-n-lite-team-up-for-2-animation-projects-executive-produced-by-into-the-spider-verses-peter-ramsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/10\/31\/gonzo-n-lite-team-up-for-2-animation-projects-executive-produced-by-into-the-spider-verses-peter-ramsey\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonzo, N LITE Team Up For 2 Animation Projects Executive Produced By Into the Spider-Verse’s Peter Ramsey\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Anime production studio Gonzo<\/strong>, which has recently been fascinated with NFTs<\/a> after a long and messy history<\/a>, is teaming up the “afro-anime”-focused multimedia company N LITE<\/strong>\u00a0to produce two new projects executive produced by Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/em> co-director Peter Ramsey<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Variety<\/a>, one of these projects is a “live-action\/anime hybrid feature” titled Ripper<\/em>, which sees two detectives tracking “a serial killer who took the lives of the women that each of them loved” in post-World War 2 Japan. The other is Hotaru<\/em>, a \u201cswashbuckling sci-fi\/fantasy adventure series about two star-crossed magic-wielding warriors bound by love and grief.\u201d \u3000<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aside from executive producing, Ramsey is co-writing Ripper<\/em>, which is created by N Lite’s Head of Production Samantha Inoue Harte<\/strong> and the show’s other co-writers Paul Alvarado-Dykstra<\/strong> and Rafael Antonio Ruiz<\/strong>. The production company JuVee Productions<\/strong>, founded by actor Viola Davis<\/strong> and husband Julius Tennon<\/strong>, is also involved in the project. Two of JuVee’s members are joining Ramsey and Gonzo CEO Shinichiro Ishikawa<\/strong> as executive producers.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Hotaru<\/em>, the creator credits go to Inoue Harte, Alvarado-Dykstra, and N Lite’s CEO Christiano Terry<\/strong>. The executive producers, apart from Ramsey, are Inoue Harte and Alvarado-Dykstra. Terry, who was among 11 startup founders featured in a paid advertorial piece<\/a> published on Anime News Network, is producing.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

N LITE’s Linkedin profile describes it as a “multimedia company that brings untapped stories from the black & indigenous imagination to life for a diverse global community.” In a statement reported by Variety, Ramsey said that he was “excited” to work with the company “on a project that is deeply personal. The shared experiences of Black and Japanese people in Japan during WWII is a historical and cultural intersection that we\u2019ve not yet seen on screen. It\u2019s also an incredible time for anime<\/a> as a whole, and as a true lover of the medium, I\u2019m eager to create something that has never been done before.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Ishikawa was reported as saying, “All of us at Gonzo are proud to partner with N Lite and Peter Ramsey on these bold new original projects. They were conceived as inclusive international co-productions for diverse global audiences, and N Lite is the perfect match given our shared vision and values. We are honored to attract such esteemed creative collaborators who share our commitment to innovative storytelling.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last January, Anime News Network reported<\/a> that N LITE was producing the “afro-anime” film MFINDA<\/em>. Film distributor GKIDS<\/strong> later revealed<\/a> that the adventure title was a N LITE and Studio M2<\/strong> co-production, with Studio M2<\/strong> and MAPPA<\/strong> founder Masao Maruyama<\/strong> (also a Madhouse<\/strong> co-founder) on board as producer.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source:<\/strong> Variety<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anime production studio Gonzo, which has recently been fascinated with NFTs after a long and messy history, is teaming up the “afro-anime”-focused multimedia company N LITE\u00a0to produce two new projects executive produced by Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse co-director Peter Ramsey. According to Variety, one of these projects is a “live-action\/anime hybrid feature” titled Ripper, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":101425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,2574,10282,10283,10281,10284],"class_list":["post-101424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-gonzo","tag-hotaru","tag-n-lite","tag-ripper","tag-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Hotaru-concept-art.webp?fit=1000%2C667&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-qnS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101566,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101424\/revisions\/101566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}