The folks at MAPPA in June 2021 announced a new project with a feature film as part of their 1oth-anniversary event with Alice to Therese no Maboroshi Kojo. The feature film is coming from writer/director Mari Okada that has Tadashi Hiramatsu as the assistant director. Yuriko Oshii is working on character design and serving as the chief animation director. Okada has gotten the “band back together” with this project as the lead staff all worked on their Maquia film together.
The film recently saw aSeptember 15th, 2023 release and revealed a running time of one hour and fifty-one minutes, making it a solid length to settle in and enjoy. With the film in theaters, MAPPA has dropped a new five-minute extended anime music video for it with “Shin-on” by Miyuki Nakajima.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Junya Enoki as Masamune Kikuiri
- Reina Ueda as Atsumi Sagami
- Misaki Kuno Itsumi
- Koji Seto as Akimune Kikuiri
- Kento Hayashi as Tokimune Kikuiri
The film features the theme song “Shin-on” and will be performed by Miyuki Nakajima, who created the song specifically for the film after reading the screenplay.
Plot Concept: The film centers on third-year middle school student Masamune, who lives in a town where time has stopped because a sudden explosion at a steelworks factory has sealed off all exits to the town. In order to hopefully one day return to normal, the residents of the town are forbidden from changing, and they live out their gloomy everyday lives. Masamune’s enigmatic classmate Atsumi leads him one day to the fifth blast furnace of the steelworks factory, and there they meet a girl who is wild like a wolf and who cannot talk. The meeting of Masamune and these two girls upsets the balance of the world. The unstoppable “love impulse” of the boys and girls who are tired of their everyday lives begins to destroy the world.
Previous promos and visuals:
