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Takahiro Miki (live-action Blue Spring Ride, Hodonaku, Owakare Desu, Solanin, We Were There) is directing, and Nana Yamamoto (Vivant, Antihero, Cinderella Complex) is writing the scripts. Moshimoss (Kosuke Anamizu) is composing the music. Amazon MGM Studios is presenting the project, and THE SEVEN collective is planning and producing alongside Kadokawa Daiei Studio.
Viz Media published the original Please Save My Earth (Bokuno Chikyū wo Mamotte or Boku Tama) manga in North America, and it also released the original video anime adaptation. Viz describes the story:
Hiwatari serialized the original manga in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume magazine from 1986 to 1994. Production I. G animated a 1993-94 original video anime series that spawned a 1995 feature-length compilationand a 2001 music image video.
Hiwatari's sequel manga Boku o Tsutsumu Tsuki no Hikari (Embraced by the Moonlight) is set years after the events of Please Save My Earthand follows the son of two of the earlier manga's characters. It ran in Bessatsu Hana toYume and Hana to Yume Plus magazines from 2003 to 2014. Hiwatari has been serializing a new sequel, Boku wa Chikyū to Utau, in Bessatsu Hana to Yume and Melody since 2015.
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