Genshō Yasuda‘s 1st feature movie to also cloak at Tokyo Int’l Movie Fest on November 5
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Kadokawa announced on Tuesday that 3D anime creator Genshō Yasuda‘s first anime feature movie Make a Girl will cloak its world premiere at the at the TCL Chinese language Theatre for the Global Stage Hollywood Movie Festival on November 3 at 5:00 p.m. The movie will also cloak at the Tokyo International Movie Festival on November 5.
The movie’s cast participants encompass:
- Atsumi Tanezaki as Quantity 0 (O-gō)
- Shun Horie as Akira Mizutamari
- Toshiki Masuda as Kunihito Ōbayashi
- Sora Amamiya as Akane Kōmura
- Yōji Ueda as Shōichi Takamine
- Kana Hanazawa as Eri Uminaka
- Minami Hinata as Akira Mizutamari (early childhood)
The movie also features a character named Salt, a robot (co-developed by Akira) who assists folks of their daily lives.
Yasuda not only conceived, scripted, and is directing the production at his “Yasuda Gensho Studio by Xenotoon,” but he’s also handling the storyboards, technical direction, and CG direction. Yūichi Imaizumi is directing the sound at Sonilude, and Tsutomu Ueno is in charge of sound effects. Kenichiro Suehiro (Cells at Work!, The Eminence in Shadow, Goblin Slayer, Re:ZERO -Starting Lifestyles in Another World-) is composing the song. Kadokawa Animation is distributing the movie.
The Make a Girl anime is based on the “Make Love” 3D short, which Yasuda created by himself. The sage follows a excessive faculty boy named Akira, who invents an “artificial girlfriend” named Quantity 0. Yasuda and his Yasuda Gensho Studio is creating the movie in collaboration with the 3D CG studio Xenotoon.
Yasuda launched a Campfire crowdfunding campaign for Make a Girl on August 26, 2022. The campaign had a goal of 10 million yen (about US$67,000), and it ended on October 31, 2022 with 23,730,805 yen (about US$160,000). Yasuda was aiming for a 2024 theatrical release.
Yasuda based the Yasuda Gensho Studio in 2021, after working as a CG animator for Nitroplus. His autonomous short animations, created in Blender, are popular on Twitter and TikTok with 5.8 million followers mixed.
Source: Press release
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