summons her. Bakemonogatari: Daesu spilling paper advertisements from under his shirt is a parody of an illustration of Hitagi spilling school supplies from under her skirt. Other than Japanese animations, Medical Island, a past work of STUDIO ANIMAL, is referenced by featuring two characters of the animation as extras. Production Development Back when smartphones weren't widely used, STUDIO ANIMAL planned Ghost Loader, a mobile TCG game in which players would fight by downloading digitized spirits to their phones. However, due to the circumstances at the time, the game ended up not being developed. 2 years later, when browsing various websites on KOCCA, STUDIO ANIMAL came to read information about various Korean traditional folklore and culture considering the underworld, and when the company combined Ghost Loader with Korean folklore, the concept of Ghost Messenger was born. During the time when the title of Ghost Messenger wasn't decided between 저승사자 강림 (The Ghost Messenger KANG LIM) and the current title, STUDIO ANIMAL first made the 1st promotional video of Ghost Messenger. After the PV was made, a Spanish animation company, BRB Internacional, contacted STUDIO ANIMAL and planned to fund them for the production of Ghost Messenger as a TV series, but as BRB asked too much to be edited, the co-production deal between the two companies was broken. In this process though, Little Kanglim was created and set as a main character. Due to the lack of money and considering the various limitations on Korean TV animations-such as those on violence-STUDIO ANIMAL decided to make Ghost Messenger as an OVA series. Currently episode 1 and 2 of the OVA have been successfully released. However, in a 2019 article announcing its global distribution by Portfolio Entertainment, Ghost Messenger: MOVIE.1 has been mentioned as the first part of a trilogy, with each episode being in feature-length. In a September 2020 interview done by Gyeonggi Content Agency, STUDIO ANIMAL officially mentioned that the third episode of Ghost Messenger has already been planned but said they wish to start production once a firm financial background is readied. Sound Effects & Recording The insertion and arrangement of sound effects and recording of voices were done by YeongBin Lee of Legend Sound. Music The overall background music for the first episode of the OVA was edited and/or replaced when it was combined with the second episode into the movie version. The opening theme song is Connexion by Outsider.