Amusing First Look Teaser for ‘Ghost Cat Anzu’ Japanese Anime Film

“A once-in-a-lifetime summer.” GKids has revealed the first look teaser trailer for a Japanese animated film titled Ghost Cat Anzu, arriving to watch later in 2024. This originally premiered at the 2023 Annecy Film Festival last year as a work-in-progress project. It’s now finished and ready to debut in Japan this summer. It’s a rotoscoped 2D animation film that’s co-directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita, who often makes live-action films. The Japanese cinema master Nobuhiro Yamashita x rising star of anime world Yôko Kuno x world-renowned artist Mirai Moriyama create a “monster cat”! The anime is about an amusing friendship shared between Karin, a strong-minded girl sent to live with her monk granddad in the Japanese countryside, and Anzu, the even-more unpredictable phantom feline who acts as her guardian. Mirai Moriyama voices the titular Anzu, and Noa Gotō voices Karin. Both played their characters in footage that became the reference for the animators, with both their dialogue and their movements being converted into the final footage. This sounds like so much fun! Just a short teaser to start without much footage – but I’m curious enough already. // Continue Reading ›