Kyoani Arson Victim's Picture Book to Become Anime Series; Former Colleagues Aim to Carry on Creator's Legacy

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KYOTO — Friends and former colleagues of Yoshiji Kigami, an animator who died in the July 2019 arson attack at a Kyoto animation studio, are pushing ahead with a plan to turn a children’s book he wrote into an anime series.

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