Sentai Filmworks announced at Anime NYC on Friday that it has licensed
the Made in Abyss compilation
films and the Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of
Orion! (Dungeon ni
Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darō ka: Arrow of the Orion) film. The company will
release all three films in U.S. theaters in 2019.
The first Made in Abyss film, Made in Abyss: Tabidachi no Yoake(Journey's
Dawn), will open in Japan on January 4, followed by the second
film, Made
in Abyss: Hōrō Suru Tasogare (Wandering Twilight), on January 18.
The first
13-episode television anime series based on Akihito
Tsukushi's manga premiered in Japan
in July 2017. Sentai Filmworks licensed the
series and released it on Blu-ray Disc on October 23. The
English-subtitled version of the show streamed in the United States
on Amazon's Anime Strike service, and HIDIVE streamed the series outside of the United States. The dub is
also streaming exclusively on HIDIVE later this
year.
Production of
a sequel is underway.
In the story,
an enormous pit and cave system called the "Abyss" is the only
unexplored place in the world. Strange and wonderful creatures reside in its
depths, and it is full of precious relics that current humans are unable to
make. The mysteries of the Abyss fascinate humans, and they head down to
explore. The adventurers who venture into pit are known as "Cave
Raiders." A little orphan girl named Rico lives in the town of Ōsu on the
edge of the Abyss. Her dream is to become a Cave Raider like her mother and
solve the mysteries of the cave system. One day, Rico starts exploring the
caves and discovers a robot who resembles a human boy.
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of
Orion! will open in at least seven theaters in Japan, including three
in Tokyo, on February 15.
Katsushi Sakurabi (Flying
Witch, Heaven's
Memo Pad, Lostorage
incited WIXOSS), an episode director on the television anime, is directing the
film at J.C. Staff instead of the
television anime's series director Yoshiki Yamakawa. Fujino
Ōmori, the author of the original light novel series, is writing the
screenplay instead of the television anime's staff writers. Shigeki Kimoto is once again adapting Suzuhito
Yasuda's
original character designs for animation. Keiji Inai is composing the music as
he did for the television anime, and Warner Brothers is distributing the
film in Japan.
Maaya Sakamoto will join the cast as a new character named
Artemis.
J.C. Staff adapted the novels into a television anime in 2015. Sentai
Filmworks licensed the series for North America, and Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
Source: Sentai Filmworks' Anime NYC Panel (Rai
Kelly), Email Correspondence
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