The official web site for “Summer season Ghost,” the directorial debut of illustrator loundraw (I need to eat your pancreas, Josee, The Tiger and the Fish, Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Music-), started streaming the primary 5 minutes of the anime quick on Monday.

Theatergoers can obtain an A4 clear file that includes an illustration of Ayane by loundraw.

The quick will open in Japan on November 12.

Chiaki Kobayashi stars as the principle character Tomoya Sugisaki, a third-year pupil with good grades. Nonetheless, he’s reluctant to take the school entrance exams as a result of he somewhat be drawing artwork.

The opposite solid members embody:

Miyuri Shimabukuro as Aoi Harukawa, a second-year pupil who’s coping with bullying in the highschool’s clique system

Nobunaga Shimazaki as Ryō Kobayashi, a third-year pupil who is a well-liked member of the basketball crew, however is now dealing with an sickness he hasn’t instructed even his buddies about

Rina Kawaei as Ayane Satō, the “summer time ghost”

The story of the quick developed from a single illustration that loundraw had drawn. Tomoya, Aoi, and Ryō are highschool college students who met on-line. An city legend speaks of a “summer time ghost,” a spirit lady who seems when fireworks are set off.

Tomoya can’t dwell the life he envisioned for himself. Aoi can’t discover her place on the earth. Ryō has his as soon as shining future all of a sudden pulled away. Every has their very own motive for needing to satisfy the summer time ghost. On a summer time evening when life and loss of life cross paths, the place will every of their feelings take them?

Along with directing, loundraw additionally drafted the unique character designs, and Flat Studio, the studio loundraw established in 2019, is animating. Hirotaka Adachi, higher often known as the novelist Otsuichi (Stare movie, Goth, Calling You, Zoo), wrote the screenplay. Flagship Line is planning and producing the challenge, and Avex Footage is distributing.

Along with internationally famend pianist Akira Kosemura, Itoko Toma, Guiano, and Hideya Kojima are contributing to the soundtrack.

Yoshi Inomi launched the manga adaptation within the Tonari no Younger Bounce service on October 8, and its compiled e-book quantity will ship on November 19. The anime’s scriptwriter (and acclaimed novelist) Otsuichi wrote a novelization that expands the story, and it shipped on October 29. As well as, the spinoff authentic novel Ichinose Yūna ga Uiteiru (Yūna Ichinose Is Floating), which picks up the motif of “fireworks and ghosts,” will ship on November 26.

The quick is a part of Venture Widespread, a multimedia initiative “to precise the true loundraw.” The illustrator stated final summer time, “Unchanging at any time, I need to discover my steadfast self. This challenge is a problem to search out the true ‘loundraw‘ with myself and everybody.” The challenge’s web site included the English textual content “actual or faux? The way in which he thinks, the best way he attracts. These all change into ‘one.'”

loundraw drew the unique character designs for the Tsuki ga Kirei tv anime collection, and in addition supplied the unique character designs and canopy illustration for Yoru Sumino‘s I need to eat your pancreas novel. The novel has impressed an anime movie utilizing his authentic character designs.

He additionally drew the character designs for an animated promotional video based mostly on Yusuke Yamada‘s Boku wa Robotic Goshi no Kimi ni Koi wo Suru (I fall in love with you thru a robotic) novel. The novel can also be getting a full animated movie adaptation.

Sources: Summer season Ghost anime’s web site, Comedian Natalie