As we work through the streaming version of Planeterian, the official site has updated about the upcoming theatrical release as well. The latest comes in the form of a great new key visual that you can see to the right as well as a new two minute promotional video that plays the emotional side of things really well, especially with Lia’s song “Starship” playing through part of it.
The theatrical film will arrive on September 3rd, 2016 that adapts a side story from the original material. The project was directed by Naokatsu Tsuda with Katsuichi Nakayama serving as the series director. They worked from the script by Shogo Yasukawa and character designs by Hitomi Takechi going off the original work by E-Ji Komatsu from the visual novel.
The cast includes Keiko Suzuki as Yumemi Hoshino, Daisuke Ono as Kuzuya, Yasumichi Kushida, Satoshi Taki, Rina Satou, Masaru Shinozuka, Sanae Fuku, Yoko Hikasa, Minami Tsuda, Shizuka Ishigami, Yuuki Kuwahara, Akiko Takeguchi and Tamio Ooki.
The original visual novel came out back in 2004, which saw translation through Sekai Project back in 2014.
Plot concept: It is thirty years after the failure of the Space Colonization Program. Humanity is nearly extinct. A perpetual and deadly Rain falls on the Earth. Men known as “Junkers” plunder goods and artifacts from the ruins of civilization. One such Junker sneaks alone into the most dangerous of all ruins—a “Sarcophagus City.” In the center of this dead city, he discovers a pre-War planetarium. And as he enters he is greeted by Hoshino Yumemi, a companion robot. Without a single shred of doubt, she assumes he is the first customer she’s had in 30 years. She attempts to show him the stars at once, but the planetarium projector is broken. Unable to make heads or tails of her conversation, he ends up agreeing to try and repair the projector…
