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Hero TV Airs anohana Anime, Heroine Shikkaku Film in December
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Philippine television channel HERO TV announced last week that it will air the anohana anime series and Heroine Shikkaku live-action film in December. HERO TV previously teased an airing of Heroine Shikkaku in August.
anohana premiered in Japan in 2011. The series follows five teenagers, once close friends, but now estranged from each other due to a childhood tragedy that took the life of one of their close friends Menma. Jinta, the group's former "leader," is now a loner in high school. One day, he begins seeing the ghost of Menma, and is even able to converse with her. Menma asks Jinta to fulfill Menma's one wish from when she was still alive. To do so, Jinta must reconnect with his old friends.
The original anime marked the second collaboration between director Tatsuyuki Nagai, writer Mari Okada, and character designer Masayoshi Tanaka, who all previously worked on Toradora!, and later would work together once more on The Anthem of the Heart. Nagai and Okada would later collaborate again on Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, while Tanaka would go on to design the characters for Makoto Shinkai's hit your name. anime film.
The anime inspired a manga, a 2013 film sequel, and a 2015 live-action special.
The Heroine Shikkaku romantic comedy centers around a high school girl named Hatori Matsuzaki who firmly believes that she has to marry her childhood friend, Rita Terasaka, someday. Kōsuke Hiromitsu, the most popular boy in school, completes the love triangle. Actress Mirei Kiritani (live-action Arakawa Under the Bridge, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Jigoku Sensei Nube) starred as Hatori. Kento Yamazaki played Rita, and Kentarō Sakaguchi played Hiromitsu.
The film opened in Japan in September 2015, and earned 233,825,500 yen (about US$1.95 million) and sold 196,496 tickets on 268 screens in its opening weekend. Tsutomu Hanabusa (High School Debut, Handsome Suit, Sadako 3D) directed the film. The original manga ran in Shueisha's Bessatsu Margaret magazine from 2010 to 2013, and Shueisha published 10 compiled book volumes.
[Via AnimePH]
