Memories of Idhún: the first Spanish anime series promises fidelity to Laura Gallego ... with surprise

Laura Gallego always says that

is her favorite book.

The best-selling trilogy that she began to imagine in her head when she was 14 years old, to write when she was 25 and that did not see the light in book form until 15 years ago, will write a new chapter on September 10.

It will be when

is released

.

Five episodes to open mouths among the legion of followers of the Valencian fantasy genre writer, in which it will be the adaptation of the first volume of the trilogy (

) and the debut of Maite Ruiz de Austri, which thus becomes the first woman to direct an anime series in Spain.

"At a time when films cannot be shown due to the pandemic,

" Ruiz de Austri told EL MUNDO.

"They are here to stay and they will be a key player in the audiovisual sector."

Will the platforms and the Covid-19 just sentence the movie theaters?

According to the show's executive producer, Alexis Barroso, the answer is no: “The experience of going to the movies is different.

It is also possible to see a concert on YouTube, but it is not the same ».

And in this case, as Ruiz de Austri acknowledges, "anime is starting in Spain and this Netflix series will be a very important projection", with the

.

"I think there will be more, because it is a way of animation and has many followers, not just children," he predicts.

If not, tell the fans of Laura Gallego, who number in the thousands, who are promised a

, who has actively participated in the adaptation by writing the scripts together with Andrés Carrion.

"The whole story, the characters and the plots appear in the series, although Laura has introduced small surprises that the fans will like," promises the director, who admits to being Laura Gallego's reader.

"When I was offered to direct the series it was a shock because I had already read it and was a fan."

In fact, Barroso himself also reveals that the idea of ​​bringing

to the screen

of the

for Netflix

.

«In the house there were many fans of the books, so we thought why not adapt them to anime.

Everyone loved the idea, ”he recalls.

And shaping

, the protagonists of the story, has not been a complicated task either, since the creators of the series have been based on the comics of

by Estudio Fénix.

This is how the writer advanced it on her website, although she admitted that for the series she has opted for

.

Nor did she hesitate, by the way, to criticize the voices finally chosen for the characters, arguing that not all the voice actors were the ones selected in the casting.

In any case, the Galician stamp is there.

If she herself tells that in reality

"is not an idea, but a

", the series gradually unravels -as if it were a puzzle- that story.

In this case, the battle waged by its protagonists for the

, a kingdom ruled by the tyrant Ashran the Necromancer and against which the Resistance fights.

On Earth, Jack and Victoria try to stop Kirtash, the assassin sent by Ashran to wipe out the exiled Idhunites.

Idhunites, the time has come.

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