Madman continues to pick up a variety of feature film licenses of the anime kind for their film festival events and they’ve now added Penguin Highway. The film is the first feature film from Studio Colorido and it arrived in Japan on August 17th, 2018. Now, Madman has listed it as part of their Madman Anime Festival with the Melbourne one being the premiere for it with details to come. Ahead of that, however, they’ve released a subtitled version of the main trailer for it to check out.
Based on the novel by Tomihiko Morimi, it’s set for an August 2018 debut in Japan with Hiroyasu Ishida directing it based on the screenplay by Makoto Ueda. Youjirou Arai is handling the character designs with Studio Colorido handling the animation production.
The cast includes Kana Kita as Aoyama-kun and Yuu Aoi as Lady.
Plot Concept: Aoyama is a serious 10 year-old boy who records all of his day-to-day experiences in his notebook. One day in May, penguins inexplicably appear in his home town, despite being located a long way from the sea. When Aoyama sees “Big Sis” – a young woman who works at a dentist’s office – drop a soft drink can which inexplicably turns into a penguin, he decides to investigate and resolve the mystery behind these strange events.
Together with his classmates, Aoyama happens upon a strange phenomenon which is surely the key to these goings-on. Will their investigation bear fruit, and just how is “Big Sis” linked to these occurrences?
