We’ve had a few things produced previously in adapting the Seishun Buta Yarō light novel series into anime and now a new anime project is in the works. In September 2022, we learned that they’ll be adapting the 8th and 9th novels in the series with Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out and Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid. What we didn’t know was the form it would take and we learned in December 2022 that it’ll be done as a theatrical feature.
We learned recently that the film is set with a summer 2023 debut and back at AnimeJapan 2023, it was scheduled for June 23rd, 2023 in Japan – hopefully with some US dates coming soon afterward. Now, the official site through Aniplex has started streaming the first five minutes of the film in order to excite fans and draw more people into the release in a couple of weeks.
Soichi Masui is coming back to direct this and based on the series composition by Masahiro Yokotani. Satomi Tamura is returning as well with CloverWorks on board for the production.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Kaito Ishikawa as Sakuta Azusagawa
- Asami Seto as Mai Sakurajima
- Yurika Kubo as Kaede Azusagawa
- Nao Tōyama as Tome Koga
- Atsumi Tanezaki as Rio Futaba
- Maaya Uchida as Nodoka Toyohama
- Inori Minase as Shōko Makinohara
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: Bunny girls do not live in libraries. This is simply common sense. And yet, that’s exactly where Sakuta runs into one in the wild. More bewildering is who the bunny girl is: Mai Sakurajima, an older student who attends the same school and is a well-known actress currently on break from industry work. Wanting to find out more about the mystery surrounding Mai and maybe get a little closer to her in the process, Sakuta launches an investigation to figure out what’s causing this bunny girl to be invisible and unnoticed by everyone around them.
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