Kyoto Animation has revealed that it’s producing an anime film adaptation of The Credits Roll into the Sea manga. The movie is set for a 2027 release, and has Taichi Ishidate (Violet Evergarden, CITY The Animation) as its director.
The Credits Roll into the Sea (Umi ga Hashiru End Roll) follows a widowed sexagenarian who joins a film school after a meeting with a young man. The manga by John Tarachine ran in Akita Shoten’s Mystery Shoten from 2020 to 2025 and placed first in the female category ranking of This Manga is Amazing! 2022. Its 15th volume will be out on May 15, 2026 in Japan.
Dark Horse Comics will release the first volume of the manga in English on July 7, 2026, after originally announcing a March release date. The synopsis reads:
Just what are you going to do with the rest of your life? It’s the question you’ll always have to answer, no matter your age. Umiko Chino is a 65 year-old retired woman in mourning for her late husband. Remembering how they used to watch films together, Umiko goes to the movie theater for the first time in years, where she meets Kai, an attractive, ambiguous young man who studies filmmaking at a nearby art school.
They would seem to have nothing in common, except for this—both of them sometimes like to look more at the way the audience reacts to a movie than the movie itself. Kai believes Umiko has the same deep desire he possesses to experience how people respond to something they made… and challenges her to stake the rest of her life discovering that thrill.
Soon Umiko surprises herself by enrolling in the same film school as Kai. But sailing into this new sea, she’s suddenly inside the currents of her fellow students’ lives, a much younger generation that she struggles to understand, driven by their own passions and their own relationships. Who’s really experienced at life, and is it old age or observation that brings wisdom? And does what you’re looking for change when you look with your eyes instead of through a camera lens…?
Kyoto Animation’s other upcoming works are RuriDragon, based on Masaoki Shindo‘s manga about a teenager who discovers she is part-dragon, and the steampunk adventure Sparks of Tomorrow. The latter will debut on Netflix on July 5 this year.
Source: @umiendrollmovie
