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Whoever Steals This Book Anime Film Reveals 5 More Cast Members, New Trailers

The official website for the anime film of Nowaki Fukamidori's Whoever Steals This Book (Kono Hon o Nusumu Mono wa) fantasy novel revealed new 60-second and 30-second trailers along with more cast on Thursday.

The new cast members include (from left to right in top row and then in bottom row in image above):

• Shigeru Chiba as Junichirō Kaname, a proprietor of an old secondhand bookstore
• Ryōta Suzuki as Tanbi Che, anassistant instructor at the Okura Dojo
• Reina Ueda as Natsume Harada, a clerk at the Okura Dojo
• Tomokazu Seki as Osamu Kikuchida, a gym teacher
• Rie Takahashi as Shiori Haruta, a literary club member
  
  

The film stars:

• Rin Kataoka as Mifuyu Mikura
• Sora Tamaki as Mashiro
• Nao Tōyama as Hirune Mikura
• Junichi Suwabe as Ayumu Mikura
• Shizuka Itō as Keiko Yosano
• Shimba Tsuchiya as Takafumi Haruta
• Romi Park as Tamaki Mikura

Daisei Fukuoka (Radiant series director, Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School: Despair Arc and Future Arc, Phantom of the Idol) is directing the film at Kagome Company (Kagokan). Yasuhiro Nakanishi (Kaguya-sama: Love is War, No Longer Allowed In Another World, Shy) is writing the script, Keiko Kurosawa (Astra Lost in Space, Asobi Asobase -workshop of fun-) is designing the characters and is the film's animation director, and Michiru Ōshima (Fullmetal Alchemist, Little Witch Academia) is composing the music. Kagokan founder Yūji Higa (Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School: Despair Arc, Asobi Asobase -workshop of fun-, Radiant) is the animation producer, and Kadokawa Animation is distributing the film.

Other staff members include:

• Color Key Artist: Eriko Murata, Tarō Kaguchi
• CG Director: Kōji Ichikawa
• 2D Design: Aya Kubota
• Compositing Director of Photography: Yuichiro Tozawa
• Editing: Kengo Shigemura
• Sound Director: Fumiyuki Go
• Animation Producer: Yūji Higa

Vocalist YUKI (formerly of Judy and Mary) performs the theme song "Share."

Yen On licensed and released the novel on February 18. Yen On describes the story:

Mifuyu is a high school student living with a large collection of books left by her great-grandfather―the vast library known as Mikura Hall. Although her father is the current caretaker, Mifuyu herself doesn't share her family's passion for literature.  But when several books are stolen from the library, triggering an ancient curse, the town is transformed according to the various stories―and the only way to put things right is for Mifuyu to catch the thief. With the help of a mysterious girl named Mashiro, Mifuyu sets out on an adventure through the different story worlds!

Kadokawa first published the novel in 2020. A manga adaptation of the novel by Kakeru Sora was serialized in Kadokawa's Young Ace magazine from December 2021 to March 2023. Yen Press released the manga's three compiled book volumes in English. 

Kadokawa published Fukamidori's spinoff novel titled Kūsō no Umi (Fantasy Sea) in May 2023.

Sources: Whoever Steals This Book anime film's website, Comic Natalie