BAYSIDE SHAKEDOWN PRODUCER GETS ANIMATED

Chihiro Kameyama is the head of motion pictures at Fuji TV, and the producer of the super-successful BAYSIDE SHAKEDOWN movies. Now he's turning his attention to BRAVE STORY, an animated movie based on a best-selling book about a kid whose dad ditches him and his mom for a younger mistress, his mom winds up in the hostpital and to save her life the kid has to go on a magical adventure in fantasyland.

Chihiro has previously stated that feature-length animation was in the future for Fuji TV, and BRAVE STORY is going to be its first animated film. It'll be released in Summer 2006, and you can see a good looking teaser on the official website here.

The author of BRAVE STORY is Miyuki Miyabe, who also wrote the book that Shusuke Kaneko's pyrotechnic thriller, CROSSFIRE, is based on, and she's got a bunch of mystery novels for sale on Amazon. In English, no less.