No Game No Life Zero Now in Theaters in Japan
No Game, No Life Zero, the movie of the popular anime franchise, has successfully started on July 16th in 61 theaters throughout Japan. A special greeting was held at the premier screening with Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (voice actor of Riku), Ai Kayano (voice actress of Schwi), Yōko Hikasa (voice actress of Couronne Dora) and director Atsuko Ishizuka, which became a special event for the fans with a Janken contest (rock-paper-scissors) with signed posters as prizes and a pre-birthday surprise for voice actress Yōko Hikasa.
Also, the cast team of the new characters has been revealed as follows:
[Ivan] Toru Okawa
[Alei] Kazuyuki Okitsu
[Einzig] Junichi Suwabe
[Lily] Lynn
[Azriel] Yui Horie
[Lafiel] Nanako Mori
[Artosh] Ryouta Takeuchi
Several special campaigns and exhibitions have started at the same weekend to celebrate the theatrical release, too. Furthermore, additional greeting events with special guests at the cinemas are planned in the upcoming weeks.
No Game, No Life official HP (Japanese): http://ngnl.jp
No Game, No Life official Twitter: @ngnl_anime
(C)Yuu Kamiya,PUBLISHED BY KADOKAWA CORPORATION /NO GAME NO LIFE ZERO PARTNERS
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About KADOKAWA CORPORATION
KADOKAWA CORPORATION (Tokyo, Japan) is a leading publisher of light novels and comics, as well as a provider of anime content. Further fields of business activity include music production and distribution in Japan. Some of our representative animation works are “Fullmetal Panic!”, “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya” and “Lucky Star”, which are widely known among anime fans worldwide. After merging with Media Factory our animation producing lines increased and the list of titles keeps growing, including recent titles such as “No Game, No Life Zero”, “Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-”, “KonoSuba – God’s blessing on this wonderful world!!”, and more.
