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Labyrinth Film's Trailer Unveils More Cast & Staff, Theme Song
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for Shōji Kawamori's original animation film Labyrinth (Meikyū no Shiori) unveiled a new trailer and visual for the film on Tuesday. The trailer announces more cast and staff members, and also reveals and previews the film's theme song "Sailor, Sail On" by the Atarashii Gakkō! pop group.
Aside from singing the theme song, the Atarashii Gakkō! group's member SUZUKA is playing the film's protagonist Shiori. The musician yonkey, who composed the group's signature song "Otona Blue," also composed the film's "Sailor, Sail On" theme song, as well as the overall music for the film.
The new cast members include (Note: Character name romanizations are not official): Shō Hayami as Shiori's distant father Keizō Maezawa (both upper left in image above), Maaya Sakamoto as Shiori's mother Yoriko Maezawa (both upper right), and Tomokazu Sugita as Shiori's seemingly indifferent but secretly dedicated homeroom teacher Tōsaka (both lower left).
The new staff members include:
- CG Supervisor: Naoya Okugawa
- Chief Animation Director: Takuya Chanohara
- Color Key Artist: Mana Watanabe
- Production Design: Barnstorm Design Labo
- Background Director: Tatsuki Ooishi, Hirofumi Morikawa
- Compositing Director of Photography: Shouko Hayashi
- Editing: Hatsumi Hidaka
- Sound Director: Fumiyuki Go
- Sound Effects: Ryūta Nakahara
- Sound Production: Bit Groove Production
- Music Producer: Yoshirō Tanemura
- Animation Producer: Hiroaki Matsuura
- Development Producer: Shōta Hozumi
- Production: Tatsumi Yoda, Yōka MAtsuzaki
- Producers: Ken Teraizumi, Kazuki Ōshima, Masako Iwamoto
- Creative Producer: Taichi Hashimoto
- Planning Producer: Toshiaki Obata
The previously announced cast members include (Note: Character name romanizations are not official):
timelesz idol group member Takuto Teranishi in his voice acting debut as Suguru Kagami, a young, internationally renowned entrepreneur who researches in college on how to directly connect the human brain to smartphones
The film centers on Shiori Maezawa, a completely ordinary high school girl who finds herself in a deserted parallel world of Yokohama after her smartphone suddenly breaks. When she checks her phone, she finds photos of herself on her social media accounts that she does not remember posting. In order to stop her other self from going out of control, Shiori tries to escape from her smartphone's strange Labyrinth.
Kawamori is directing the anime, his first feature-length animated film not based on an existing franchise, at SANZIGEN. The original story concept is credited to the companies Slow Curve, Vector Vision, GAGA, and Fuji Television, and Slow Curve is also credited with planning and producing the project. Risa Ebata (Macross Frontier, AKB0048) is designing the characters, and Taichi Hashimoto (Listeners, Gate Keepers 21) wrote the script.
Kawamori stated in a comment that the film is born from the idea that smartphones that people use are "another self," that accumulates data such as personal information. Kawamori added that he aims to create an emotional, pop entertainment piece that combines song and horror.
Kawamori is perhaps most famous for being a key creative planner in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross anime series. He designed most of the franchise's iconic transforming Variable Fighter mecha, and oversaw most of the main installments in the franchise, including the latest, Macross Delta.
Kawamori has also created the Aquarion, AKB0048, and Arjuna series, and was chief director on Jūshinki Pandora at Satelight, the anime studio for which he served as a board director. He has contributed mechanical design work to Patlabor: The Movie, Patlabor 2: The Movie, Eureka Seven, Outlaw Star, Ghost in the Shell, and more. He is credited as the original creator of The Vision of Escaflowne, Basquash!, and Nobunaga The Fool. He has worked in anime production as a director, screenwriter, mechanical designer, and storyboarder.
Sources: Meikyū no Shiori anime film's website, Comic Natalie
