GKIDS to Present The Colours Inside, Ghost Cat Anzu Movies in Theaters This Winter – Information

GKIDS introduced Saturday throughout the AnimeNYC trade panel that Science SARU And Naoko Yamada‘S The colours inside (Kimi no Iro) anime characteristic movie, in addition to Shinei Animation and that of France Miyu Productions‘ Ghost Cat Anzu 2D animated movie, set to hit North American theaters in winter 2024.

The colours inside opens in Japan on August 30. GKIDS has acquired the movie for North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand. Anime Ltd. has acquired the movie for Europe. PLAION PHOTOS will cowl Italian and German talking areas, and HELLO’S will handle gross sales for the remainder of Europe, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand.

The story revolves round Totsuko, a highschool lady who can see the “colours” of feelings in individuals’s hearts. She attends a mission faculty in Nagasaki. To be able to stop her family and friends from creating darkish emotions, she worries, reads conditions, and even lies to calm issues down. In an vintage bookstore on a metropolis nook, she meets a stupendous girl with an extremely stunning tan and a music-loving boy who’s attempting to begin a band. The story follows these three delicate individuals as they arrive collectively to play in a band.

Yamada directed the movie in Science SARU. Story Inc. is listed as planner and producer. Reiko Yoshida (COULD!, Women and armor, Journey your wave, Violet Evergarden) wrote the script, and Kensuke Ushio (House Dandy, A silent voice, Liz and the Blue Chicken, Chainsaw Man) composed the music. Daisuke Richard designed the unique characters and Takashi Kojima designed the characters and likewise directed the animation.

The movie premiered on the Annecy Worldwide Movie Pageant earlier this yr in June. The movie additionally gained the Finest Animation Movie Award on the twenty sixth Shanghai Worldwide Movie Pageant in June.

The Ghost Cat Anzu The movie premiered in Japan on July 19.

The main roles are performed by:

Mutsuo Yoshioka And Shohei One additionally contribute votes.

Forged members additionally acted as characters in footage that served as reference for the characters’ animation. The spoken traces throughout the filming of their actions have been additionally used within the movie.

Yoko Kuno And Nobuhiro Yamashita direct the movie, and Shinji Imaoka writes his script. The movie is 90 minutes lengthy and makes use of combined animation strategies that mix 2D digital animation with rotoscoping. Yoko Kuno is the character designer, Julien De Man is the artwork director and coloration key artist, Namiko Ishidate And Yukie Nakauchi are the animation administrators, and Keiichi Suzuki composes the music.

Chiaki Satō (ASAB) sings the theme track “Matatabi”.

The movie was screened as a work-in-progress on the Annecy Animation Pageant in June 2023. The Paris-based HELLO’S firm will deal with worldwide gross sales. GKIDS has acquired the North American rights to the movie.

Miyu Productions describes the story of the film:

Karin, 11 years previous, is deserted by her father in the home of her grandfather, a monk from a small city within the Japanese countryside. Her grandfather asks Anzu, his cheerful and useful, if relatively capricious ghost cat, to handle her. The assembly of their robust characters creates sparks, at the very least at first…

Kodansha revealed the one-part Bakeneko Anzu-chan manga from 2007.

Supply: GKIDS panel and AnimeNYC (Anita Tai)