Underplayed Gems

Under the Dog (2016)

Under the Dog poster
Directed by
Masahiro Ando
Genre
biopunk, Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country
Japan
Runtime
38 min
Rated
M
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 28 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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In 2025 Neo Tokyo, five years after a terrorist attack on the Olympics, the United Nations forces teenagers with special abilities to fight threats. A girl named Anthea Kallenberg is one of those soldiers and she tries to find out who she really is.

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What happens

Under The Dog (Japanese: アンダー・ザ・ドッグ, Hepburn: Andā za Doggu) is a 2016 Japanese original video animation. Originally a collaborative project between Creative Intelligence Arts and Kinema Citrus, and later a project solely produced by Kinema Citrus, it is a Kickstarter-funded anime project, released on August 1, 2016. The anime was supposed to be set in Neo Tokyo in the year 2025, five years after a terrorist attack on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. To combat future threats, the United Nations force teenagers possessing special abilities into fighting those threats. One member, Anthea Kallenberg, seeks to discover her true identity. Under the Dog was originally conceived in the late 1990s by Jirō Ishii, intended as a 26-episode series. When the project was resurrected, the team behind it chose to fund it through Kickstarter to retain creative freedom. The staff consisted of Ishii, director Masahiro Andō, producer Hiroaki Yura, character designer Yūsuke Kozaki, and composer Kevin Penkin. Though the project was successfully funded, Creative Intelligence Arts and Kinema Citrus separated due to creative differences, and Kinema Citrus took full control. The split resulted in the replacement of some development staff, including Yura being replaced by Kōji Morimoto and Yoshirō Kataoka and the involvement of Orange. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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