Shoji Kawamori’s Real Anime Movie Labyrinth Unearths Solid

The real X/Twitter story for Shōji Kawamori‘s unusual and accepted animation movie Labyrinth (Meikyū no Shiori) published four solid participants for the movie on Thursday. The solid participants encompass (Impress: Character title romanizations are no longer real):

The movie will commence on January 2026.

The movie facilities on Shiori Maezawa, a completely usual excessive school lady who finds herself in a abandoned parallel world of Yokohama after her smartphone without note breaks. When she checks her phone, she finds photographs of herself on her social media accounts that she would not remember posting. In yell to discontinue her quite loads of self from going out of preserve watch over, Shiori tries to traipse from her smartphone’s uncommon Labyrinth.

Kawamori is directing the anime, his first characteristic-length intelligent movie no longer in maintaining with an existing franchise, at SANZIGEN. The original epic belief is credited to the corporations Gradual Curve, Vector Vision, GAGA, and Fuji Television, and Gradual Curve will possible be credited with planning and producing the project. Risa Ebata (Macross Frontier, AKB0048) is designing the characters, and Taichi Hashimoto (Listeners, Gate Keepers 21) wrote the script.

Kawamori acknowledged in a comment that the movie is born from the opinion that that smartphones that folks employ are “another self,” that accumulates details corresponding to private details. Kawamori added that he objectives to form an emotional, pop entertainment allotment that combines tune and danger.

Kawamori is possible to be most notorious for being a key ingenious planner in The Large Dimension Fortress Macross anime series. He designed loads of the franchise‘s iconic reworking Variable Fighter mecha, and oversaw loads of the predominant installments within the franchise, alongside side the most recent, Macross Delta.

Kawamori has also created the Aquarion, AKB0048, and Arjuna series, and used to be chief director on Jūshinki Pandora at Satelight, the anime studio for which he served as a board director. He has contributed mechanical form work to Patlabor: The Movie, Patlabor 2: The Movie, Eureka Seven, Outlaw Superstar, Ghost within the Shell, and more. He’s credited as the accepted creator of The Vision of Escaflowne, Basquash!, and Nobunaga The Fool. He has worked in anime production as a director, screenwriter, mechanical clothier, and storyboarder.

Sources: Meikyū no Shiori anime movie’s X/Twitter story, Mantan Web