Horror Comedy Manga Adaptation LITCHI HIKARI CLUB Gets A Full Trailer
Manga author Furuya Usamaru’s 2006/2012 coming-of-age Ohta publication, Litchi Hikari Club is now a reality with a new feature adaptation courtesy of Nikkatsu. Teasers have since been making the rounds as of late last year and now we have a full trailer that invites us into The Crone and Puzzle helmer Naito Eisuke’s latest venture into grim horror comedy, replete with a look that ought to appease anyone with a taste for practical effects and immersive set pieces. SYNOPSIS: On the cusp of manhood lies madness. The year is 2XXX and Keiko Town is an over-industrialized stretch of blackened factories pumping out thick layers of smoke that cast it in a perpetual state of semi-darkness. The citizens of Keiko Town fare no better and walk around their dilapidated town in a stupor of hopeless despair. In an abandoned factory in an obscure corner of town lies the secret base of […]