Movie to premiere in Japan on July 19
TOHO Animation debuted Saturday with a brand new particular “Pi-Pi-chan” video for Ghost Cat Anzu, Shinei Animation and that of France Miyu Productions‘ 2D animated movie. The employees additionally revealed that Ikue Otani will voice the forest fairies Pi-Pi-chan within the movie. The characters seem within the new video.
©️Takashi Imashiro/Kodansha/Bakeneko Anzu-chan Manufacturing Committee
The movie will premiere in Japan on July 19.
The main roles are performed by:
Mutsuo Yoshioka And Shohei One additionally contribute votes.
Solid members additionally acted as characters in footage that served as reference for the characters’ animation. The spoken strains in the course of the filming of their actions have been additionally used within the movie.
Yoko Kuno And Nobuhiro Yamashita direct the movie, and Shinji Imaoka is writing his script. The movie will run for 90 minutes and can use combined animation strategies that mix 2D digital animation with rotoscoping. Yoko Kuno is the character designer, Julien De Man is the artwork director and colour 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 Competition 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 fairly capricious ghost cat, to deal with her. The assembly of their sturdy characters creates sparks, at the very least at first…
Kodansha printed the one-part Bakeneko Anzu-chan manga from 2007.
Sources: TOHO Animation‘S YouTube channel, Oricon Information
