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Sentai Filmworks Also Announce Acquisition of Children Who Chase Lost Voices for North America

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 As you may have read in my previous post, Madman Entertainment recently announced their acquisition of the rights to Hoshi o Ou Kodomo (Aka. Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below) within Australia. Similarily, Sentai Filmworks recently announced their acquisition of the series for North America and will be receiving a theatrical release between the 26th June and 3rd July at the Nuart Theater in Los Angeles then a general release through digital channels and a home video release next year.

The latest brainchild of writer/producer/director Makoto Shinkai, the pioneering creator who first turned the Japanese animation industry on its head by producing the hit VOICES OF A DISTANT STAR almost single handedly using his own personal computer, CHILDREN will be Shinkai’s longest and most complex film to date and promises to further continue the director’s evolution as one of the most important emerging talents in the animation industry.  Joining Shinkai once again are some of his most trusted collaborators, including composer TENMON, who has created the score to every Shinkai film since the director’s first short, SHE AND HER CAT; animation director/character designer Takayo Nishimura and art director Takumi Tanji, who have both risen up the production chain with Shinkai, having begun as an animator and background artist respectively on THE PLACE PROMISED IN OUR EARLY DAYS and 5 CENTIMETERS PER SECOND; and most especially the ground-breaking production company ComixWave Films, which has distributed all of Shinkai’s major works to date.

I would like to stand corrected that unlike the official English title given to the series by Comix Wave, both companies will be releasing it under the shortened title Children Who Chase Lost Voices!.

Strange sounds in the darkness…  Unearthly music from an old crystal radio…  These are all the warning Asuna Watase has before a simple walk to her clubhouse catapults her into a nightmarish adventure that will take her beneath the Earth to a lost land beyond the realm of legend!  Attacked by a strange monstrous creature, rescued by a mysterious stranger and pursued by a relentless enemy, Asuna finds herself enmeshed in a centuries old mystery that will bind her to a strange young defender and lead her inevitably, towards a secret that may hold the key to life itself!  From Makoto Shinkai, the critically acclaimed anime wunderkind who’s thrilled audiences around the world with the masterworks VOICES OF A DISTANT STAR and THE PLACE PROMISED IN OUR EARLY DAYS, comes an all new, dark and truly epic journey into a world you’ve never seen before:CHILDREN WHO CHASE LOST VOICES!

Sam
Sam
Founder of The Otaku's Study. I have been exploring this labyrinth of fandom these last fifteen years, and still nowhere close to the exit yet. Probably searching for a long time to come.

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