Hiwou War Chronicles

Aired: 2000 - 2001

A 26-episode period fantasy anime broadcast on NHK BS-2 from October 2000 to May 2001, BONES' first original TV anime production. Directed by Tetsuro Amino with series composition by Noboru Aikawa. In the late Edo period, a boy named Hiwou from a village of "machine people" activates a giant mechanical doll when their village is attacked, then journeys to find his father amid the turbulence of the Meiji Restoration. ©Hiwou Production Committee (NHK Enterprises 21/VAP/Victor Entertainment/BONES).