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Crunchyroll Streams Fureru. Anime Film in India
posted on by Adriana Hazra
The film opened in Japan in October 2024. The film sold 69,000 tickets and earned 102,554,300 yen (about US$692,200) in its first three days.
The story follows three childhood friends who are connected by a mysterious creature. The film shows the three as young adults in Tokyo. The movie is set in Takadanobaba, a different location from the Super Peace Busters trio's previous three works (Chichibu is Mari Okada's hometown).
The cast includes:
Ren Nagase as Aki Onoda
Ryōta Bandō as Ryō Sobue
Kentarō Maeda as Yūta Inohara
Haruka Shiraishi as Juri Kamozawa
Manaka Iwami as Nana Asakawa
Sarutoki Minagawa as Wakita
Kenjirō Tsuda as Kohei Shimada
The film features nine cast members from the team's previous three anime works including anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, The Anthem of the Heart, and Her Blue Sky.
The Super Peace Busters creative team consists of director Tatsuyuki Nagai, writer and director Mari Okada, and artist Masayoshi Tanaka. Nagai (anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, The Anthem of the Heart, and Her Blue Sky) directed the film at CloverWorks. Okada wrote the script, and Tanaka designed the characters.
YOASOBI performs the theme song "Monotone."
The film won the Korean Society of Cartoon and Animation Studies (KOSCAS) President's Prize, the DHL Diversity Prize, as well as the Kinolights Prize at South Korea's Bucheon International Animation Festival.
Source: Crunchyroll
