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Odex Film Festival Singapore to Screen No Game, No Life Zero, Nanoha Reflection in October

Odex announced on Monday that it will hold The Odex Film Festival event in Singapore on October 5 to 8 at the GV Plaza Singapura. The event will screen the No Game, No Life Zero, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection, Gekijōban Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya: Sekka no Chikai, and the first Eureka Seven: Hi - Evolution film. It will also screen the Shinobi ni Kuni (Mumon: The Land of Stealth) live-action film. Odex will announce more details in September.

This is the second such event held in Singapore this year, with the first taking place in February. Odex is also holding a similar event in Malaysia, which runs from August 25 to September 3 with a different anime film lineup.

No Game, No Life Zero opened in Japan on July 15, and will get 4DX screenings at 48 theaters in Japan beginning on September 9. As of August 13, the film's box office total has surpassed 500 million yen (about US$4.6 million).

Although the film features the same main cast members as the previous television anime, many of them are credited as characters who lived six millennia before Sora and Shiro came into the alternate world. However, the film's latest visual (pictured right) shows returning characters, including Sora and Shiro.

Atsuko Ishizuka returned from the television anime series to direct the film at Madhouse. Jukki Hanada also returned to handle the script, and Satoshi Tasaki designed the characters. Kazuhiro Hocchi drew the concept art. Eiji Iwase returned as art director, and Tsukasa Ohir reprised the background art setting role. However, Yoshiaki Fujisawa composed the music.

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection opened on July 22 at 73 theaters and ranked at #8 in the Japanese box office.

In addition, the film has sold 123,984,060 yen (US$1,107,475) in merchandise at theaters.

In the story, a pair of researchers stay behind on their dying planet of Eltria with their two daughters, Amitie and Kirie, in hopes of finding a way to revive the planet. But when the husband Granz falls ill it seems their dream of reviving the planet will die. Against her older sister's wishes, Kirie sets off with her childhood friend Iris to seek help from a distant alternate world. They arrive in Japan on Earth to search for the key to their planet's regeneration. There, they meet Nanoha Takamachi, Fate T. Harlaown, and Hayate Yagami.

The project is planned as two films. The second film, titled Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation, will open in 2018.

Gekijōban Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya: Sekka no Chikai (Movie Version Fate/kaleid liner Prisma ☆ Illya: Oath Under the Snow) opens in Japan on Saturday. Odex plans to open the film in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

A previous promotional video described the film's story:

"I think I'm going to tell you about me and Miyu's story up to now."

The world's destruction progresses. The only thing that can stop it is Miyu's sacrifice that is worthy of the Grail. When Ainsworth asks Illya, the one who carries the title of the world's savior, what she will save between the world and Miyu, she chooses the simple and selfish answer of "both." In a respite from the fighting, they all rest in the house Miyu and Shirō took care of. When they gather in a circle, Shirō tells them about himself and Miyu. She was the Child of God that granted any and all wishes. Shirō took in the girl who had no one else into the household that he had shared with Kiritsugu. It has been five years since then, and now they have lived peacefully like siblings. But that peaceful everyday life has now been shattered. They will take her back, but before that, Julian makes his appearance, still seeking in Miyu the miracle that he needs.

The connection that lies between Miyu, Shirō, and Ainsworth will be told here.

Shin Oonuma (No-Rin, WATAMOTE) is returning to direct the film at Silver Link, and Hayato Kaneko (Dusk maiden of Amnesia, No-Rin) is again serving as producer. Kenji Inoue (Baka to Test to Shōkanjū) and Hazuki Minase (C³) are returning to write the script, and Kazuya Hirata returns as the character designer. Tatsuya Katou (Love Live! Sunshine!!, SukaSuka) and TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND are composing the music at Lantis. Kadokawa Animation is distributing the film. ChouCho is performing the film's theme song "kaleidoscope."

The first Eureka Seven: Hi - Evolution film debuted at the Otakon convention in the United States on August 12. The first film will open in Japan on September 16. BONES also plans to open the film in other countries "simultaneously." The second film will open in 2018, and the third film will open in 2019. Odex plans to screen the trilogy in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Brunei.

Yuko Sanpei, Kaori Nazuka, Kouji Tsujitani, Michiko Neya, Juurouta Kosugi, and Aya Hisakawa are all returning from the original anime as their characters Renton, Eureka, Dewey, Talho, Charles, and Ray, respectively. Toshiyuki Morikawa will play the character Holland in the film, replacing Keiji Fujiwara from the original television anime. Tohru Furuya will play Renton's father Adrock Thurston.