Creative Intelligence Arts announced a Kickstarter on Friday for an original 24-minute anime titled Under the Dog. The project is seeking to raise $580,000 USD by September 7th.

Director: Masahiro Ando
Original Story: Jiro Ishii
Producer: Hiroaki Yura
Character and Mechanical Design: Yuusuke Kozaki
Animation Studio: Kinema Citrus
3D CGI Animation: Orange Co.

Synopsis
Under the Dog takes place in 2025 in Neo Tokyo, five years after a devastating terrorist attack at the Tokyo Olympics. In the wake of the tragedy, the U.N. formed a covert ops unit dedicating to seeking out, then eliminating those responsible for the attack. Anthea Kallenberg, a girl of Swedish descent is a member of this elite group who has honed her combat abilities and has become a deadly assassin, but must come to terms as to who she really is.

The PV is available on the Kickstarter site.

Source: ANN, Kickstarter

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Update September 5
'Under the Dog' has reached its Kickstarter goal with two days to spare. According to the creators, the finished product will be in Japanese with English subtitles. The team is also in talks with Crunchyroll and Netflix to distribute the OVA.

Source: Update on official Kickstarter page

Under the Dog on MAL