The
official website for Craftar Studios Inc.'s original
anime film Ashita Sekai ga Owaru Toshitemo (Even if the World Will
End Tomorrow) revealed on Thursday that Tohru
Furuya (Gundam's Amuro Ray, Sailor Moon's Tuxedo Mask) will narrate
the beginning of the film.
Previously
revealed cast members include:
Yuuki Kaji as Shin Hazama
Maaya Uchida as Kotori
Izumi
Yoshiki Nakajima as Jin
Hazama, the other "self" from another Japan
Sayaka Senbongi as Kotoko
Izumi, a girl who looks similar to Kotori
Aoi Yūki as Miko,
a mysterious girl
Inori Minase as Riko
Kenjiro Tsuda as Genji
Hazama, Shin's father
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Shū
Izumi, Kotori's father
Nana Mizuki as Yūri,
the head of a research establishment who is cooperating with Kotoko behind the
scenes on a certain project
Kaji, Uchida, and Yūki all voiced similarly
named characters in The
Relative Worlds.
The film will open in Japan on January 25, 2019. Craftar is
credited with the original work, and Yūhei Sakuragi (The Relative Worlds, Ingress) is directing the film
and writing the script. Shochiku Media Division is
distributing the film. Aimyon is performing the film's theme song, as
well as the film's insert song "Ra, no
Hanashi." The film will mark the first time Aimyon is contributing music
to an anime work.
The film
centers on Shin and Kotori, who are both third years in high school. Shin lost
his mother when he was little, and since then he has a tendency to close
himself off. Kotori is his childhood friend who always looks out for him. One
day, another "self" from another Japan appears in front of them.
Sakuragi is
also penning a novel that is considered the original work for the film. Kadokawa's Da Vinci magazine began serializing the novel in its November issue
on October 6.
Shochiku had listed in January that Sakuragi and Craftar would
release a CG anime film this fall. CG anime studio Craftar worked
with Sakuragi on The
Relative Worlds. Hulu Japan and Craftar's
original two-part "smart CG animation" project premiered
via streaming on Hulu Japan in April 2017.
Sources: Ashita Sekai ga Owaru
Toshitemo anime film's website, Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
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Tohru Furuya Narrates Ashita Sekai ga Owaru Toshitemo Anime Film