The film will be studio K2 Pictures' first animated feature project.
Movie and video production company K2 Pictures announced during the Cannes Film Festival that its “K2P Film Fund I” initiative will finance multiple new projects, including a theatrical anime adaptation of Hiroya Oku’s sci-fi manga GIGANT.
The project will mark K2 Pictures’ first-ever animated feature film.
What is “GIGANT” about?
Unfortunately, besides the confirmation of an anime movie adaptation, K2 Pictures has not revealed any other information like its staff, cast, or premiere window.
In response to the announcement, manga author and illustrator Hiroya Oku posted on his X (formerly Twitter), celebrating the good news and inviting his audience to watch the film when it screens.
He also celebrated K2 Pictures and its producers.
Oku, who is most known for his previous work “GANTZ”, began serialising GIGANT in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Superior in December 2017, with the series reaching its finale in September 2021. Seven Seas Entertainment distributes the manga in English.
The story is officially described as:
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!