Shochiku started streaming a music video with lyrics for Funimation and J.C. Workers‘s unique anime movie coproduction Sing a Little bit of Concord (Ai no Utagoe o Kikasete) on Tuesday. The video options animated footage and stills from the movie and makes use of the insert track “You Want a Pal: Anata ni wa Tomodachi ga Iru.” Tao Tsuchiya performs the track.

The movie will open in Japan on October 29. Funimation will display screen the movie in theaters within the U.S., Canada, the U.Okay., Eire, Australia, and New Zealand in early 2022.

Funimation describes the movie:

Sing a Little bit of Concord tells the story of the attractive and mysterious Shion (Tao Tsuchiya) who transfers to Keibu Excessive Faculty the place she rapidly turns into fashionable for her open-hearted character and distinctive athletic expertise… however she seems to be an AI (synthetic intelligence) within the testing part! Shion’s objective is to convey persistent loner Satomi (Haruka Fukuhara) “happiness.” However her technique is one thing no human would anticipate: she serenades Satomi in the midst of the classroom. After discovering out that Shion is an AI, Satomi and her childhood pal, engineering geek Toma (Asuka Kudo), steadily heat as much as the brand new pupil. Together with the favored and enticing Gotchan (Kazuyuki Okitsu), the strong-willed Aya (Mikako Komatsu), and judo membership member “Thunder” (Satoshi Hino), they grow to be increasingly more moved by Shion’s singing voice and earnestness whilst her antics bewilder them. However what Shion does for Satomi’s sake finally ends up involving all of them in some critical pandemonium… Prepare for the heartwarming story of a not fairly market-ready AI and her classmates!

The forged contains:

• Tao Tsuchiya as Shion Ashimori
• Haruka Fukuhara as Satomi Amano
• Asuka Kudo as Tо̄ma
• Kazuyuki Okitsu as Gocchan
• Mikako Komatsu as Aya
• Satoshi Hino as Thunder
• Kenjiro Tsuda as Saijō
• Sayaka Ohara as Mitsuko
• Kenji Hamada as Nomiyama

Japanese comic Kazlaser and former Takarazuka actress Miyu Sakihi may also voice as-yet unspecified roles within the movie.

Yasuhiro Yoshiura (Time of Eve and Patema Inverted) is directing the movie. Yoshiura and Ichiro Okouchi (Code Geass, Princess Principal, Seven Days Struggle) are co-writing the script. Kanna Kii, the creator of the Seaside Stranger manga, drew the unique character designs. Shuichi Shimamura (Honey and Clover, Nodame Cantabile) is designing the characters for animation, and can also be the chief animation director.

Ryō Takahashi (Sk8 the Infinity) is composing the music, and Yohei Matsui (Ensemble Stars!) is writing the songs.

Supply: Sing a Little bit of Concord movie’s web site, Shochiku‘s YouTube channel