He was working on an anime version of Pochiyama at the Pharmacy with Ueda, but that's been shelved in favor of some other unknown project. He's supposed to write the complete story in novel form first, and if the novel's good, it'll be published to complement the anime. (Spinning Haibane Renmei on the fly was a huge headache that the production crew would like to avoid this time around.)
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