As a commemoration to Osamu Dazai’s 110th birthday, his novel No Longer Human will get an anime movie titled Human Lost (Ningen Shikaku).

The movie was revealed during the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) on 22 March 2019, along with the cast and staff members, one promotional video, and a teaser visual. The movie’s official website is available in Japanese and English. The movie will be released worldwide sometime in 2019.

Mamoru Miyano has been nannounced to play the main character Yozo Oba. The animation will be produced by Polygon Pictures with the help of director Fuminori Kizaki (Afro Samurai, Basilisk), supervisor Katsuyuki Motohiro (FLCL series, Psycho-Pass), and character designer Yusuke Kozaki.

Check out the teaser video and read the introduction from the website below.

Human Lost

Introduction

(Taken from the official English website)

Mine has been a life of much shame.

Tokyo, 2036 (Showa year 111): a revolution in medical treatment has conquered death…

By means of internal nanomachines and the S.H.E.L.L. system whose network controls them, human beings suffer no diseases, require no treatment for injuries, and are guaranteed a 120-year lifespan free from illness. Yet this consummate social system warps the Japanese nation in a host of ways: unresolved economic disparities, ethical decadence resulting from deathlessness, grave environmental pollution, and the ‘Human Lost’ phenomenon, in which people themselves, disconnected from the S.H.E.L.L. network, become malformed.
Japan teeters wildly between two potential futures: civilization’s restoration or its destruction.

Atmospheric pollution suffuses ‘Route 16’ in the area outside the Route 16 beltway. Youzou Oba, who lives an idle, drug-saturated life, joins Masao Horiki, a mysterious man who associates with the drag-racing gangs, on an incursion inside the area within the Route 7 loop where the privileged class lives, only to be embroiled in a violent struggle. When he encounters a malformed sufferer of the Human Lost phenomenon, a ‘Lost’, Youzou’s life is saved by Yoshiko Hiiragi, a girl of mysterious abilities who belongs to the anti-Lost agency H.I.L.A.M., and he discovers that he himself also possesses extraordinary powers…

Degradation and death. Life and hope. Buffeted by fate, a man tears himself apart and cries out. Rage. Sorrow. Pathos. Consumed by despair and bitter tears, Youzou Oba is himself transformed into a demon.

A human lost… or a human who can find himself?

Staff

Original Work: Osamu Dazai
Supervisor: Katsuyuki Motohiro
Director: Fuminori Kizaki
Original Story/ Script: Tow Ubukata
Character Design: Yusuke Kozaki
Concept Artist: Kenichiro Tomiyasu (INEI)
Animation Production: Polygon Pictures
Planing/ Production: MAGNET/ SlowCurve
Distribution: Toho Visual Entertainment

Cast

Yozo Oba: Mamoru Miyano

Web

Official Site: https://human-lost.jp/
Official Twitter: ＠HUMANLOST_PR