Welcome to the second of three trailer posts.
You can find part one here and the last part will follow tomorrow.
There’s so much to view in terms of films and TV anime as I have been ploughing through festival titles and re-watching anime likeRecord of Lodoss War while writing. A surprising find wasThe Weathering Continent, a 90s Production I.G fantasy anime that I found to be quite good in terms of music and art.
What are the next set of releases?
Pui Pui Molcar the Movie: MOLMAX
PUI PUI モルカー ザ・ムービー MOLMAX 「Gekijouyou sai Henshuu ban Uma Musume Puriti- Da-bi- ROAD TO THE TOP」
Release Date: November 29th, 2024
Duration: 106 mins
Director: Mankyu
Writer: Yuko Kakihara (Screenplay), Tomoki Misato (Original Creator),
Starring: Akari Kito (Otohime), Akio Otsuka (Dodge Driver), Ayumu Murase (Canon), Masaki Aiba (Many Many AIs Company CEO), Yukari Tamura (Great Magic Angel Morumi), Ito, Tsumugi,
Animation Production: Monster’s Egg
Website Twitter: @molcar_anime ANN MAL
This is CG and not the cute stop-motion animation.
Synopsis: Molcity sees the emergence of AI-driven Molcars and Potato and friends get involved in one driver’s search of his missing Molcar Dodge which brings them into contact witha mysterious organization and a Molcar AI named Kanon.
Solo Leveling: ReAwakening
俺だけレベルアップな件 ReAwakening 「Ore dake Level Up na Ken: ReAwakening」
Release Date: November 29th, 2024
Duration: 119 mins
Director: Shunsuke Nakashige
Writer: Noboru Kimura (Screenplay), Chugong, Dubu, h-goon (Original Creator),
Starring: Taito Ban (Shun Mizushino), Banjo Ginga (Kiyoomi Goto), Reina Ueda (Shizuku Kosaka), Ayako Mitani (Yuka), Haruna Mikawa (Aoi Mizushino),
Animation Production: A-1 Pictures
Website Twitter: @sololeveling_pr ANN MAL
This is a theatrical version of the TV anime prior to the broadcast of the second season in January 2025. It consists of a special edited version of the first season and episodes 1 and 2 of the second season.
Synopsis:It has been more than ten years since “Gates,” passageways connecting our reality to other dimensions, suddenly appeared in various parts of the world. Accompanying the appearance of Gates was the awakening of special abilities in various people. These people were named “hunters” and they made their living battling monsters and conquering dungeons inside the Gate. One person, Shun Mizuno, was a low-ranking hunter who was considered the weakest. Then, he started to “level up” his abilities as he embarked on a quest in search of the “divine water of life,” which may cure his mother’s illness.
Syohane the Parhelion – SUNSHINE in the MIRROR
劇場総集編 幻日のヨハネ SUNSHINE in the MIRROR 「Genjitsu no Yohane -Sunshine in the Mirror-」
Release Date: November 29th, 2024
Duration: 119 mins
Director: Asami Nakatani
Writer: Toshiya Ono (Screenplay), Hajime Yatate (Original Creator), Sakurako Kimino (Original Concept)
Starring: Aika Kobayashi (Yohane), Ai Furihata (Ruby), Aina Suzuki (Mari), Anju Inami (Chika), Arisa Komiya (Dia), Yoko Hikasa (Lailaps),
Animation Production: Sunrise
Website Twitter: @GJ_yohane ANN MAL
This is a compilation of the 13-episode TV anime Yohane the Parhelion: Sunshine in the Mirror, a spin-off of the Love Live! franchise which was broadcast in 2023. It is about a girl named Yohane who lives in “Numazu,” a town in another world similar to Numazu City in Shizuoka Prefecture, the setting of Love Live!
Synopsis: Yohane had departed her home of Numazu for the city of Tokai where she hopes to make it big but it didn’t happen and so she was forced to return home. It is in Numazu that she begins to grow again, with the help of the people and places around her.
Returner 4K Digital Remaster
リターナー 「Rita-na-」
Release Date: August 31st, 2002
Duration: 116 mins.
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Writer: Takashi Yamazaki, Kenya Hirata (Screenplay),
Starring: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Anne Suzuki, Goro Kishitani, Kirin Kiki, Yukiko Okamoto,
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Godzilla -0 director Takashi Yamazaki’s debut , his first two films were given a 4K digital remaster and released in cinemas. Last week was Juvenile, starring Anne Suzuki, and she is back with what was a huge film from Japan back at its time of release, Returner, also starring Suzuki and heart-throb Takeshi Kaneshiro.
It is a VFX heavy sci-fi bullet ballet about a hitman who becomes involved in the fight to stop an alien invasion thanks to a girl from the future.
Synopsis: Miri is a soldier has travelled from the year 2084, just as humanity is about to be wiped out by an alien race known as the “Daggra,” to the year 2002 where her goal is to prevent their invasion by eliminating their first scout on Earth. She works with a hitman named Miyamoto who has his own battle, one with his nemesis Mizoguchi, a ruthless gangster.
