A first new main trailer has been released for Mamoru Hosoda’s upcoming anime feature film Scarlet. The film will premiere in Japan on November 21, 2025 and in the U.S. on December 12, 2025.
The film’s main voice cast stars Mana Ashida as the main heroine, Scarlet, and Masaki Okada as Hijiri. Hosoda is directing and writing the film’s screenplay.
Variety reported that Sony Pictures is co-producing and co-financing Hosoda’s new anime film with Studio CHIZU, who is handling the film’s animation production, and Nippon TV. Sony Pictures will also release the film in the U.S. and globally, outside of Japan.
The company was reported to be distributing the film globally earlier last year, while Toho is handling distribution in Japan. The film’s story “centers on a princess who transcends time and space.”
Meanwhile, Comic Natalie reported Hosoda saying during Scarlet‘s announcement event that the film is in “neither 2D nor a Hollywood-style CG animation” and that its theme will tackle life and death, with action and romance elements included.
Scarlet will be the newest anime feature film from Hosoda, who most recently worked on Belle in 2021. His previous works include The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, Wolf Children, The Boy and the Beast, and Mirai (which received a nomination for Best Animated feature at the Academy Awards). Besides The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars, most of his works have been animated at Studio CHIZU.
Sources: Studio Chizu Official Japanese Twitter, Crunchyroll News
