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Popin Q Anime Film's Trailer Shows Fantasy World, Teases Dance Sequence
posted on by Karen Ressler
Toei Animation began streaming a trailer for its upcomingoriginal anime film Pop In Q on Wednesday. The trailer shows the film's five heroines transported to another world, where they are asked to save the world with dance.
In addition, the film's website revealed a new key visual and opened character pages for the five main characters from the Popin race. The website also revealed additional cast and staff members.
The cast for the main heroines is:
Shiori Izawa as Aoi Hioka
Tomoyo Kurosawa as Saki Tsukui
Ari Ozawa as Asahi Ōmichi
Atsumi Tanezaki as Konatsu Tomodate
The cast for the Popin race includes:
Kaori Ishihara as Luchia, Aoi's Isotope
Kaede Hondo as Darren, Konatsu's Isotope
M.A.O as Tadona, Asahi's Isotope
Satomi Arai as Rupy, Saki's Isotope
Other cast members include (romanizations not yet confirmed):
- Unshou Ishizuka as Elder
- Erii Yamazaki as Remy
- Azusa Tadokoro as Miharu Fukamachi
- Megumi Toda as Nana Mitsuhashi
The film will premiere in Japan in winter 2016.
The story begins the day before the graduation ceremony. Five middle school girls each are preoccupied with their real everyday lives. These girls meet each other in a fantasy world after being sent there through a sudden occurrence. There, they learn about the impending crisis that this world is facing. The way to avert this crisis is for the five to collaborate and bring their five hearts together as one through dance. However, the five cannot come to love the world, and cannot tell their true feelings to one another, so their hearts are unable to unite. The time limit is fast approaching. Can the dance of the five girls save the world? And will they be able to graduate?
Izumi Todo, the collective pseudonym for the Toei Animation staff, is credited with the film's original work. Naoki Miyahara (Dragon Ball Z, "Precure All-Star DX 3D Theater" short, Precure series dance sequences) is directing the film, and Kouhaku Kuroboshi (Kino's Journey, World Conquest Zvezda Plot) drafted the original character designs. Shūko Arai (live-action Twin Spica series) is the scriptwriter, and Takayuki Uragami serves as character designer and chief animation director. Hiromi Mizutani (Tanaka-kun is Always Listless, Toriko, Non Non Biyori) and Shūji Katayama (Overlord, Yurumates3Dei) of Team-MAX are composing the film's music, and the idol unit P.IDL will perform the opening theme song "Teenage Blues" for the film.
Daiki Nakazawa (Heartcatch Precure!, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods) is serving as CG director, Makoto Sakamoto is handling the art setting, and Yutaka Ōnishi is the art director.
The film is commemorating Toei Animation's 60th anniversary.
Images © Toei Animation / project PQ Partners 2016
