Shochiku started streaming a brand new promotional video on Thursday for the theatrical anime of Yoshiko Shikimura‘s Ganbatte Ikimasshoi novel. TV persona and movie critic LiLiCo narrates the video, introducing the setting and the primary characters.

The movie will debut on October 25.

The movie’s title roughly interprets to “let’s go and provides it our greatest” however was used as a cheer (or rallying cry) at the highschool alma mater in Ehime prefecture of the unique writer Yoshiko Shikimura. The phrase is used on the finish of the above video whereas the characters are rowing.

Yūhei Sakuragi (The Relative Worlds, Ingress) is directing the movie, and can be penning the script alongside Keiichirō Ōchi (Aikatsu!, The Quintessential Quintuplets). Asako Nishida (Love Reside! College idol mission, Land of the Lustrous) is designing the characters. Studio Moe and REIRS are animating the movie. Town of Matsuyama in Ehime prefecture is collaborating on the movie. Shochiku will distribute the movie.

The movie stars (character identify spellings aren’t confirmed):

• Sora Amamiya as Eiko Murakami
• Miku Itō as Hime Saeki
• Rie Takahashi as Riina Takahashi
• Akari Kitō as Miyoko Hyōdō
• Ikumi Hasegawa as Mayumi Inomoto

The novel facilities on the members of a ship membership at a women highschool in Matsuyama Metropolis in Ehime prefecture.

The unique novel received first prize on the “Bocchan Literary Prize” award in 1995. The novel impressed a live-action movie in 1998, and a live-action collection in 2005.

Sources: Ganbatte Ikimasshoi anime movie’s web site, Comedian Natalie