At the AnimeJapan 2024 stage event for the upcoming anime film Fureru., the Super Peace Busters creative team revealed three new character designs for the film’s lead characters. The film is set to premiere in Japanese theaters sometime later in Fall 2024.
The new designs all showcase the main characters as close childhood friends in their 20s and their individual personalities.
Ryo Sobue is a first-time real estate agent, who is an active and sporty older brother type to his friends. Aki Onoda is a part-timer at a bar who has trouble speaking and tends to act first before saying anything. Lately, Yuta Inohara is a designer and fashion school student, who suffers from many unlucky things in his life, tending to act very passive because of them.
Fureru. reunites members of the creative collective Super Peace Busters, which includes Tatsuyuki Nagai (A Certain Scientific Railgun T) as director, Mari Okada (Maboroshi, Dragon Pilot: Hisone & Masotan) as screenwriter, and Masayoshi Tanaka (Suzume, 22/7) as character designer. All three previously worked on Anohana, The Anthem of the Heart, and Her Blue Sky. CloverWorks is the main animation production company.
The story is set in modern Tokyo and follows three young men who find a strange creature.
