In addition to Attack on Titan, Production I.G subsidiary WIT’s recent work included HAL, an anime movie directed by animator/storyboard artist Makihara Ryoutarou (Tatami Galaxty, Karas) with Katsuhiko Kitada (Birdy the Mighty: Decode, Fractale) as character designer/chief animation director, Hitomi Hasegawa (Birdy the Mighty: Decode) as animation director and Michiru Oshima (Tatami Galaxy, Fullmetal Alchemist, Beck) on music.
After announcing the license at last year’s Anime Expo, FUNimation is now ready to release it in a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack on September 2nd.
Check out their preview of the opening scene…
Cast includes…
CHARACTER – ACTOR
HAL – Chris Burnett
(Romeo x Juliet’s Romeo, Shiki’s Toru Muto)
KURUMI – Bryn Apprill
(Attack on Titan’s Christa Renz, Date A Live’s Kotori Itsuka, Red Data Girl’s Izumiko Suzuhara)
RYU – Todd Haberkorn
(Fairy Tail’s Natsu Dragneel, Hetalia’s Italy, Ouran Host Club’s Hikaru Hitachiin)
ADR DIRECTOR – Mike McFarland
ADR ENGINEER – Kenneth Thompson
synopsis:
From the studio behind Attack on Titan comes the directorial debut of a bold, new voice in the world of anime.
Kurumi’s heart was broken by the sudden death of her boyfriend in a tragic airplane accident. Forced to carry on without her beloved Hal, she fell into a reclusive and joyless existence. Kurumi had given up on the world, but a brilliant scientist devised a plan to win her back. By melding futuristic technology with the binary equivalent of human emotion, they created an ultra-lifelike robotic surrogate to take Hal’s place – and lure Kurumi from her shroud of solitude. Resistant at first, this shattered beauty slowly yielded to her feelings of longing – and took comfort in the company of a robot. Though their unique bond grew stronger with each passing day, Kurumi and Hal would soon discover that nothing about their artificial love story was quite as it seemed.
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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain’t It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.
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