follows Ash, the leader of a gang in New York City, investigating the last words of a dying man.

Back Street Girls

Director (監督) : Chiaki Kon

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Chiaki Kon’s career as an anime series direct has spanned over a dozen years covering varying genres, but her current project may well be he oddest. She directs a manga adaption of Back Street Girls, where three yakuza members undergo extensive surgery to become women and become idols.

Kon’s career as a director began with an adaption of a horror visual novel, Higurashi. Since then she’s has projects going nearly annually, and occasionally multiple in a year. Her projects range from boys love, to light novel adaptions, to children’s anime. In the past few years, Kon has a gotten a number of movies under herbelt, as well as credits working on the Crystal arc of the re-adaptation of the legendary Sailor Moon manga.

100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams

Director(監督): Yukina Hiiro

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Yukina Hiiro has been active in the anime for decades, directing and storyboard episodes in the early 1990s, including series like Genji Tsūshin Agedama and You’re Under Arrest. She made her directorial debut in 2006 on the adaption of the boys’ love otome game Gakuen Heaven. Her second anime series would be in the opposite direction, an adaption of Yumi Nakata’s undergarment-oriented manga Chuu-bra!! Last year, she returned to the boys’ love genre with an adaption of Hitorijime my Hero.

There is much less of a wait for Hiiro’s next project, as she’s directing an adaption of 100 Sleeping Princes and the