Kadokawa has announced that Gensho Yasuda’s original anime film Make A Girl will make its world premiere on the Global Stage Hollywood at the TCL Chinese Theater on November 3, 2024.
Tickets for the film’s premiere at Global Stage Hollywood can be purchased here, which will premiere at 5:00 PM PST.
The film was also previously announced to premiere at the Tokyo International Film Festival on November 5, 2024. It will premiere in Japan on January 31, 2025.
Yasuda is leading the anime film as director, screenwriter, storyboard artist, unit director, and CG director. He is joined by Kenichiro Suehiro (Re: Zero, Undead Unluck) as music composer, with Gensho Yasuda Studio by Xenotoon in charge of the animation production.
The film’s main voice cast stars:
- • Shun Horie as Akira Mizutamari
- • Minami Hinata as young Akira Mizutamari
- • Atsumi Tanezaki as Number 0
- • Sora Amamiya as Akane Sachimura
- • Toshiki Masuda as Kunihito Obayashi
- • Kana Hanazawa as Eri Uminaka
- • Joji Ueda as Shoichi Takamine
Make A Girl is based on the original short film Make Love, which used Blender as the main animation software.
The original anime film had a crowdfunding campaign that ran from August 2022 to October 2022 and raised 23,730,805 yen (US$159,012.77), surpassing its 10 million yen target. Another crowdfunding campaign was hosted from September to October 2023 for increased quality and completion purposes, and ended up raising 23,176,413 yen (US$151,017.39).
Kadokawa describes the main synopsis of Make A Girl as:
The story takes place in the near future: Akira Mizutamari, a scientific genius who succeeded in developing and commercializing SALT, a robot that supports people’s lives, finds himself stuck in a rut when all of his new inventions fail. After hearing from a friend that he can “power up” by creating a girlfriend, he does literally that and scientifically creates an “artificial” girlfriend named “No. Zero”. Torn between her programmed emotions and her growing feelings, No. Zero starts to waver. Is it “love” that buds between her and Akira, who is unaccustomed to communicating with others, or perhaps something else……?
Source: press release
