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Questy Performs Popin Q Anime Film's Theme, Background Songs

posted on by Jennifer Sherman
EXILE PROFESSIONAL GYM, Avex's 7-member all-female unit debuts with film

The official website for the Popin Q film announced on Sunday that Questy will perform the theme song "Fantasy" and a background song for the anime. The performance will mark the debut of the all-female dance and vocal unit.

EXILE PROFESSIONAL GYM and Avex Group's Rhythm Zone collaborated for the first time to bring the seven members of the group together and train them. The members went through a half-year selection process with "severe lessons." The performers range in age from 14 to 18 years old.

The film's producer Toshiyuki Matsui noted that the real Questy group is meant to tie in with the film's story of 15-year-old girls going on an adolescent "quest." The film project aims to show the linked personal growth of the film characters and the real-life artists.

Toei Animation began streaming the film's first three minutes last month. Toei had initially planned to release the film in January 2017, but decided to move it forward to December 23, 2016 and increase the number of theaters showing the film.

The cast for the main heroines is:

Asami Seto as Isumi Kominato

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:

Marina Tanoue as Pocon, Isumi's Isotope, or partner from the Popin race

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):

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 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.

Source: Animate Times


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