Award-winning art director / production designer Yohei Taneda has provided the concept and illustrations for a new children's book entitled Stella and the Future. The book was written by author Nobu Noyama, and it involves a girl being raised by a robotic mother in a tall tower and a boy being raised by a group of fathers on a world covered by ice.
Taneda describes the work as a "quiet book stripped of superficial excesses" and notes that he drew inspiration from such works as The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, and the novels of Kenji Miyazawa.
Yohei Taneda has worked as an art director and production designer on numerous films, both live-action and animated, such as Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, Studio Ghibli's When Marnie Was There, and Quentin Taratino's Kill Bill: Vol 1. Stella and the Future is Taneda's first children's book.
Stella and the Future was published by Kodansha on September 11, 2015. The book is 128 pages long and retails for 1500 yen ($12.44 US) plus tax. For more information, please check out the official Japanese web site here.
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