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2018 Doraemon Film's Trailer Previews Gen Hoshino's Theme Song
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The official Doraemon Channel website revealed the title of Gen Hoshino's theme song for the Eiga Doraemon: Nobita no Takarajima (Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Treasure Island) film as "Doraemon" on Monday. A 90-second third trailer featuring the song premiered on TV Asahi's Good! Morning program on Tuesday. The song's single will ship on February 28.
Hoshino is also performing the insert song "Koko ni Inai Anata e" for the anime film.
Eiga Doraemon: Nobita no Takarajima, the Doraemon franchise's 38th film, will open in Japan on March 3. A lottery will choose a total of 3,000 people to attend five advance screenings of the film at theaters in Japan on February 24-25.
Kazuaki Imai, an episode director on the Doraemon television anime, is directing the project as his first Doraemon franchise film. Novelist Genki Kawamura (your name., The Boy and The Beast producer) is penning the script inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island novel.
In the film's story, Doraemon, Nobita, Shizuka, Gian, and Suneo set out on an adventure in the Caribbean Sea. Nobita is the captain of a ship and fights his enemies on board. Shizuka gets kidnapped, and a storm impedes their journey. Mini-Dora robots help Nobita and friends on their journey. When the adventurers finally find the mysterious Treasure Island, they discover it is more than just an ordinary island.
Source: Anime! Anime! (Kōtarō Nakase)
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