The Enter The Garden anthology has received a Samurai Champloo collaboration visual to highlight its upcoming second episode, “Fractured Reflections.”
“Fractured Reflections” and the 2004 Shinichiro Watanabe-directed samurai series share the same character designer in Kazuto Nakazawa (Terror in Resonance), who drew the crossover illustration that features Samurai Champloo‘s Mugen.
“Fractured Reflections” is “coming soon,” following May’s “The Waiting Man.” Enter The Garden will have three episodes.
The synopsis for “Fractured Reflections” reads:
In Episode 2, “Fractured Reflections,” two sisters, Shao and Raizan, grow up together in the Alley, relying on each other to survive. But one day, Raizan vanishes. Shao searches for her, but years pass with no success. Then, carrying her sister’s sword, Shao stumbles upon a mysterious torii gate and enters the unknown world of the Garden.
Enter The Garden comes from web3 brand Azuki and Dentsu, with One Piece Film Red/Code Geass director Goro Taniguchi serving as creative producer. Azuki, which was created by Los Angeles-based Chiru Labs, describes itself as a “Web3 anime brand that tells stories at the intersection of art, technology and culture.” Azuki claims that Enter The Garden offers a “personalized experience” through factors like “licensing community-owned characters” for the anime, product placement of businesses owned by Azuki community members, and “a dynamic feature in one of the scenes in Episode 1, where an Azuki collector can see their own Azuki character on a billboard.”
Staff (“Fractured Reflections”)
• Director: Yukio Takatsu (storyboard artist and unit director of March Comes in Like A Lion Season 2 Ending 2 and Naruto Shippuden Opening 17)
• Series composer: Taku Kishimoto (Haikyu!!)
• Character designer: Kazuto Nakazawa
Source: Press release
