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Under the Dog Jumbled Screenings Scheduled for June/July in Japan
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
An official website opened on Friday to reveal that the planned theatrical screenings for the Under the Dog anime project will run at Shinjuku Wald 9 in Tokyo, Umeda Burg 7 in Osaka, and 109 Cinema Nagoya in Nagoya from June 23 to July 6. The original video anime, live-action short, theme song, and a "comical short movie" titled "Anthea-chan" will screen together under the title Under the Dog Jumbled.
The website also began streaming a promotional video for the screenings. (Note: The video on the website linked above is region-locked to Japan.)
The staff had originally announced that the "Our Melody" ("Shōjo-tachi no Melody," literally "Girls' Melody") ending theme song, which the video above previews, would have a music video as part of the screenings. However, the official website currently lists the song without mention of a music video. Asami Seto, who voices Anthea in the anime, performs the song. Shoko Omori (K-ON! theme songs) wrote the lyrics.
The live-action short, titled Overture to Under the Dog, will feature a voiceover by Seto. Atsushi Isoyama (Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!, Tamako Market planning) is directing and writing the short and producing the music video.
The staff previously announced that the total runtime of the original 30-minute anime with the live-action short and the music video would be 54 minutes. The staff also announced that the special edition will stream online in Japan, and an international Blu-ray Disc and DVD release is planned.
The Kickstarter page notes that the staff consider the project to be the "next step" toward creating an Under the Dog television anime series.
Episode 0 was released in August 2016. The production team used Kickstarter in order to avoid the process of funding from production committees and therefore retain creative control of the anime. The project met its minimum US$580,000 goal on Kickstarter in September 2014 and eventually raised US$878,028 in Kickstarter pledges.
Masahiro Ando (Hana-Saku Iroha, Blast of Tempest) directed the anime based on a story by Jirō Ishii (428: Shibuya Scramble, producer on Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors). Yuusuke Kozaki (Fire Emblem: Awakening) designed the characters, Kinema Citrus was in charge of animation, and Orange Co. (Ghost in the Shell Arise) was in charge of 3D CGI.
Source: The Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
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