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Odex Film Festival in Singapore Screens 4 Anime Films on November 30-December 2

Odex announced that it will hold its film festival event in Singapore on November 30 to December 2 at the Golden Village Suntec cinema. It will screen the Natsume Yūjin-Chō: Utsusemi ni Musubu (Natsume's Book of Friends: Tied to the Temporal World), Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation, Anemone: Kōkyōshihen Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution (Anemone: Eureka Seven: Hi - Evolution), and Circle Vision ~Nameless Song~.

The Natsume Yūjin-Chō: Utsusemi ni Musubu anime film will open on September 29 in Japan. The film will feature a returning cast. In addition, Kengo Kora plays Rio Tsumura, a young man whom Natsume meets and befriends. Sumi Shimamoto plays Yori Tsumura, Rio's mother. Ayumu Murase plays Daisuke Yūki, Natsume's schoolmate from elementary school. Viking comedy duo member Eiji Kotōge plays Monmonbō, a yōkai who has come to take its name back from Natsume. Viking comedy duo member Mizuki Nishimura plays Roppon-ude, a six-armed yōkai who aims to take Natsume's book.

Midorikawa is supervising the film's original story. Animation studio Shuka is returning from the television anime's fifth and sixth seasons to animate the film. Takahiro Ōmori is again serving as chief director, but Hideki Ito is the new director. Sadayuki Murai is again handling series composition, Tatsuo Yamada is returning for yōkai design, and Makoto Yoshimori is again composing the music.

The Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation anime film will open in Japan on October 19. Nana Mizuki will perform the film's theme song "Never Surrender." The film's website previously teased that the new film will delve into the history between Iris and Yuri, and the tragedy of Eltoria's "Planet Reclamation Committee."

The film's new cast includes Kōichi Yamadera as the unnamed head of the Planet Reclamation Committee, Eiji Miyashita as Andy Penton, and Yumiko Ōfuku as Jessica Waverly.

The first film in the two-film project, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection, opened in Japan in July 2017. Odex screened the film theatrically in Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, and Thailand last year.

Masaki Tsuzuki, the franchise creator and scriptwriter, is credited with the original work, and also penned the scripts of both films. Takayuki Hamana (The Prince of Tennis, Library War, Appleseed XIII) directed the first film at Seven Arcs Pictures, and both are returning for the second film. Kana Hashidate (Dog Days') drew the character designs, and Shochiku is distributing the films.

Anemone: Kōkyōshihen Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution, the second film in the Eureka Seven: Hi - Evolution film trilogy will open in Japan on November 10.

For the first time in the Eureka Seven franchise, the film will be set in Tokyo. The film centers on Anemone, a girl who lost her father in a battle in Toyko seven years prior to the film's story, leaving her with only her stuffed toy Gulliver, and the AI concierge Dominikids for emotional support. Now she is a key part of a strategy by the experimental unit "Acid" to combat the seventh Eureka, "Eureka Seven," an enemy of humanity that has killed 2.6 billion people. Driven to the brink, all of humanity entrusts its hope to Anemone as she dives deep into the interior of Eureka Seven.

The staff remains mostly the same as the first film, but adds Takuhito Kusanagi and Fumihiro Katagai as designers. Shigeru Fujita and Ayumi Kurashima remain credited as character animation director, but are now also credited as sub-character designers. Kenta Yokoya is now credited as mechanical animation director and design works, while previous mechanical animation director Shingo Abe is now credited as one of the main animators, alongside Hideki Kakita, Shuichi Kaneko, Ken Ootsuka, and Nobuaki Nagano.

The first film in the trilogy opened on 107 screens in Japan last September. In its first two days, it raised about 63 million yen (about US$561,137). Odex screened the film in Singapore during its TOFF event last October.

Circle Vision ~Nameless Song~, sixth film in the six-part K: Seven Stories theatrical anime project, will open in Japan on December 1, , and stars:

Daisuke Namikawa as Yashiro Isana
Daisuke Ono as Kuroh Yatogami
Mikako Komatsu as Neko
Ayumu Murase as Mysterious Boy

Odex opened R:B ~Blaze~, the first film, in Singapore on July 19. The film opened in theaters in Japan on July 7. Odex also opened SIDE:BLUE ~Sirius~, the second film, in Singapore on August 18. It opened SIDE:GREEN ~Overwrite World~, the third film, on September 13.

Shingo Suzuki is returning as director and character designer at the studio GoHands the anime. GoRA and GoHands are once again credited for the original story. GoRA is also credited with writing and oveerseeing the series scripts. Mikio Endo is again composing the music. Music group angela is performing all six ending theme songs — one for each of the six parts. The group is also performing the opening theme song "SURVIVE!" for all six parts. Each of the ending theme songs is named after each part's subtitle.

Source: Odex Facebook page