Encore Movies introduced on Tuesday that it’s going to display the Sumikkogurashi: The Little Wizard within the Blue Moonlight (Eiga Sumikko Gurashi: Aoi Tsukiyo no Mahō no Ko) anime movie. Encore Movies didn’t reveal a gap date for the movie.

The movie opened in Japan on November 5, and offered about 200,000 tickets to earn about 250 million yen (about US$2.22 million) in its first three days. The movie has thus far earned a complete of 951,869,980 yen (about US$8.38 million).

Takahiro Ōmori (Durarara!!, Natsume’s Ebook of Buddies, Princess Jellyfish) directed the movie. Reiko Yoshida (Violet Evergarden, Lu over the wall, Ok-ON!) penned the script, and Kaori Hino (Modest Heroes, Napping Princess) returned from the primary movie because the artwork director. Fanworks returned to animate the movie, and ASMIK Ace is distributing.

Within the movie’s story, the primary characters go on a tenting journey at some point within the fall, and that night time they recall a legend: that after each 5 years, on the night time of a big and blue full moon, magical creatures will go to the city. The characters lookup, solely to see a big and blue moon overhead.

Sumikko Gurashi debuted in 2012 as barely unfavourable characters who like to remain within the nook of a room. The characters embody “Shirokuma,” a polar bear who’s delicate to chilly; “Penguin?” (with a query mark in its identify), a penguin who’s uncertain whether it is really a penguin; “Tonkatsu,” a chunk of pork cutlet that was left uneaten; “Neko,” a shy cat; and “Tokage,” who hides his nature as one of many final dinosaurs.

The primary anime movie, titled Sumikkogurashi – Good to be within the nook, opened in Japan in November 2019. The movie ranked at #3 in its opening weekend. The movie ultimately offered a complete of 1.22 million tickets, and it earned 1.4 billion yen (about US$12.8 million) on the field workplace in Japan as of February 2020. The movie gained the award for Greatest Animation of the Yr on the twenty ninth Annual Japan Film Critics Awards in June 2020. Encore Movies screened the movie in Singapore in November 2020 with each English and Japanese audio.

Supply: Encore Movies‘ Fb web page