Co-produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Toei Animation! New Animation "KAIJU DECODE: Kaiju Decode" Production is decided!

Toei Animation Inc. and Tsuburaya Productions Inc. have announced that they will co-produce "KAIJU DECODE: Kaiju Decode," an animated film from Japan for the world.

The film, themed "A Tale of a Monster and a Girl," will be jointly produced by Toei Animation, Japan's largest animation production company with over 60 years of history, and Tsuburaya Productions, which has brought various monsters to the world through its "Ultra Q" and "Ultraman" series and numerous other live-action special effects productions.

The film will be produced by Toei Animation's Koichi Noguchi, who has worked in a wide range of genres including VFX for live-action films such as the animated films "Expelled from Paradise" and "Correct Answer Kado," and Tsuburaya Productions' Masahiro Oteda, who has worked on a variety of Tsuburaya films.

Details of this film will be presented at the opening ceremony of TSUBURAYA CONVENTION 2019, the largest Tsuburaya Productions festival in history, to be held at Tokyo Dome City on December 14 and 15, 2019 (Saturday, December 14, 10:00 - TOKYO DOME CITY HALL), with Koichi Noguchi and Masahiro Oteda on stage.

The countdown to the announcement of additional information about the film began on November 15, 2019, on the official "KAIJU DECODE KAIJU DECODE" teaser site.

⇒Additional guests on stage for TSUBURAYA CONVENTION 2019, the largest Tsuburaya Productions festival in history, and ULTRAMAN are announced!

[Film Outline].
KAIJU DECODE KAIJU DECODE
Planning/Original Story: Tsuburaya Productions, Toei Animation
Producers: Koichi Noguchi, Masahiro Oteda
Form: CG Animation

Producer's Statement】】 Koichi Noguchi
Koichi Noguchi
Studied under Richard Edlund at BOSS FILM STUDIOS (Los Angeles, USA) and was in charge of VFX production for "Speece" (1995), "Water World" (1995) and "Air Force One" (1997). Later, he was in charge of VFX for "Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey" (2000) and "Ultraman Cosmos VS Ultraman Justice" (2003), and as a VFX supervisor for Toei Animation, "Yamato/Yamato" (2005), "Hayabusa Harukanaru Homecoming" (2012), "Kitanozakura Mamoru" (2018), and "Katsuben! (2019). He served as a producer for "Expelled from Paradise-" (2014) and "Correct Answer Kado" (2017).

■ Masahiro Oshida
At Tsuburaya Productions, he worked on "Ultra Galaxy Legend: Ultraman Zero vs Darkops Zero" (2010), "Ultraman Zero The Movie: The Super Battle! Belial Galactic Empire" (2010), "Q - Gateway to Another Dimension" (2011), "SSSS.GRIDMAN" (2018), "Kaiju Step Wanda Bada" (2019) and producer of the anime "ULTRAMAN" (2019). He is also the project planner for the "ULTRAMAN ARCHIVES" project and picture book artist for the "Imaginary Science Picture Book: Kaibutsu no Sumika" (2019).

The following are comments received from representatives of each company.

Comments from representatives] (Original text is in Japanese only)
Katsuhiro Takagi (President, Toei Animation Co., Ltd.) commented
Toei Animation is starting a joint project with Tsuburaya Productions as a new initiative. In addition to the video production techniques we have cultivated over the years, we are taking on another new challenge. We are sure that some people will be surprised by the combination of the two companies, and we will proceed with the production so that you will experience even more surprises through the images. Please look forward to it.

Takayuki Tsukagoshi (Chairman and CEO, Tsuburaya Productions Co., Ltd.) commented, "The Tsuburaya Productions name has become a symbol of our company.
We were looking for a way to bring the monsters that are synonymous with Tsuburaya Productions to a wider audience, when we came across this project, "A Tale of a Monster and a Girl". Toei Animation, the company we are teaming up with this time, is an animation production company with the oldest history and highest quality in Japan, and at the same time, has produced many masterpieces featuring girls that reflect the times. We look forward to this project, in which the two long-established animation and special effects companies will combine their strengths to create works for the world.

Outline of the Opening Ceremony
TSUBURAYA CONVENTION 2019" Opening Ceremony
・Date and Time: December 14, 2019 (Saturday) Doors open 9:00~ / Concert begins 10:00~.
Venue: TOKYO DOME CITY HALL (1-3-61 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo)
Tickets:
　　S seats 3,800 yen
　　A seats 2,800 yen
　　B seats 2,000 yen
　　(There is a set ticket with the closing performance on December 15 (Sun.))
Performers:
　　Takumi Saito ("Shin Ultraman")
　　Shinji Higuchi ("Shin Ultraman" director) and others

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