Genji Fantasy: Neko ga Hikaru Genji ni Koi wo Shita
GENJI FANTASY: Neko ga Hikaru Genji ni Koi wo Shita / Genji Fantasy: The Cat Fell in Love With Hikaru GenjiSummary
The Tale of Genji Museum in Uji City, Kyoto will be airing a short film blending history and fantasy, the story follows a modern high school girl named Hana who is transformed into a cat and transported back in time. She travels 1,000 years ago to the Heian Era as portrayed in The Tale Of Genji, arguably the most famous novel in Japanese literature. Guided by the novel's titular character Hikaru Genji, Hana experiences firsthand the emotions that the author Murasaki Shikibu depicted in her novel. The short features scenes based on The Diary of Lady Murasaki and other historical materials, such as the real-life noble Fujiwara no Michinaga swiping early drafts of The Tale Of Genji because he could not wait to read chapters as Murasaki wrote them.
(Source: Anime News Network)
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Details
- Format
- Special
- Number of Episodes
- 1
- Episode length
- 20 min
- Estimated total length
- ≈ 20 min (1 × 20 min)
- Start date
- April 2, 2019
- End date
- April 2, 2019
- Status
- Finished
- Source
- Original
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Studios
- LIDENFILMS Kyoto Studio
- Romaji title
- GENJI FANTASY: Neko ga Hikaru Genji ni Koi wo Shita
- Native title
- GENJI FANTASY ネコが光源氏に恋をした
- Other titles
- Genji Fantasy: The Cat Fell in Love With Hikaru Genji
Characters 6
Main characters
- Hikaru Genji光源氏Main
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Hana華Main
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- Gender
- Female
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- Kouji光二Supporting
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Murasaki Shikibu紫式部Supporting
Profile
- Gender
- Female
Character based on real life japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period. She was best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, widely considered to be one of the world's first novels, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012.
- Fujiwara no Michinaga藤原道長Supporting
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Chuuguu Shoushi中宮彰子Supporting
Profile
- Gender
- Female
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Key staff
- Rika OotaDirector
- Haruka SagawaCharacter design
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- Kazuya SakamotoAnimation Producer