While the Klonoa series could possibly return someday, it's unlikely this adaptation will ever materialize. Notably in all of them, Klonoa has an attire that was meant exclusively for the film and wasn't based on any of his outfits from the orignal source material. The sequel to 1997s sleeper platformer hit 'Klonoa: Door to Phantomile' finds our floppy-eared, baseball cap-wearing hero collecting dream stones and over-inflating his enemies with air bullets while protecting the dream world of Lunatea in this '2-D style' action game. Availability ĭuring the film's short lifecycle, concept art from Ariga was drawn and can be found on Twitter. Not only did Bandai Namco have no involvement aside from a deadline they put on Henshin, but the film's own death was from Henshin themselves. Shortly afterwords in the same month, Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada had revealed insights about the film on Twitter via a tweet longer. Soon after having a dream of a meteor crashing down to Phantomile near his home he sets off with Huepow to the landing site and uncover his destiny.
He grew up in Breezegale, Phantomile alongside his Grandpa and Huepow. However, the now deleted Klonoa Anime Project Twitter account (the official page for the movie) posted a Tweet saying the film was no longer "with them" on December 31st, 2018, suggesting the film's end might've been in motion earlier then when Ariga posted. A cat-like creature with sharp fangs and a hip style but a gentle and caring persona. The trouble production it was having, though he expressed hope on another Klonoa project materializing in the future. On January 4th, 2019, Ariga confirmed on Twitter the proposed animated adaptation was sheleved due to In November 2018, Hideo Yoshizawa (Yoshizawa previously worked on the Klonoa games as a producer, and had also joined the movie's production) stated despite no recent news, it was still going to release on Twitter in a replay to a fan, though Ariga shared he couldn't say a word about it in the same thread.
The game was in development simultaneously with Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil for the PlayStation 2, with the production of both games headed by Hideo Yoshizawa. In January 2017, now former Gamexplain member and creator of Good Vibes Gaming, Ash Paulsen, was brought on for a associate producer role. Moonlight Museum was announced a month before its release in April 1999 as a side-story to the original Klonoa: Door to Phantomile for the PlayStation. The storyline was planned to be set in the same timeline as the games, though would have a narrative original to the movie. Henshin's founder, Rob Pereyda signed on as the producer and Hitoshi Ariga to write the script, design the characters, and co-produce the adaptation. In October 2016, an animated film of Klonoa was revealed to be in development by Henshin at TIFFCOM, the Tokyo Film Festival's rights market.