During Aniplex Online Fest 2023, the official theme song for The Concierge anime movie was revealed in a new trailer. The latest trailer also highlights the protagonist Akino as she carries out her job as a saleswoman for a bizarre department store.
The Concierge is based on the manga by Tsuchika Nishimura. The manga was serialized from 2017 to 2018 in the Big Comic Zokan seinen manga magazine by publisher Shogakkukan. Fans may look forward to a new movie premiering on October 20 with the title The Concierge at Hokkyoku Department Store in English and Hokkyoku Hyakkaten no Concierge-san in Japanese.
The Concierge Anime Movie’s Theme Song
Aniplex’s latest trailer for The Concierge reveals that Myuk will perform the theme song “Gift”. Once more, Japanese theaters will carry The Concierge when it premieres on October 20. An English release has not been announced, however.
Yoshimi Itazu is directing the film at animation studio Production I.G with Satomi Ooshima handling and writing the script. Tofubeats will produce the score, and Chiyo Morita is the film’s character designer and chief animation director. Aniplex will distribute the movie in Japanese theaters.
Watch the latest trailer below:
Lastly, here’s an overview of The Concierge via Fantasia International Film Festival:
“The word ‘no’ doesn’t exist in a concierge’s dictionary.”That’s just one of the demanding rules that Akino must abide by in her new job as a saleswoman at the elegant and expansive Hokkyoku Department Store. It’s a very special store — the customers are all animals, and the most valued among them are of extinct species. Sea minks, laughing owls, Japanese wolves, even an enormous mammoth — that’s Mr. Woolly, the celebrated sculptor whose works are showcased at the store.
It’s still a luxury retail space, though, and anxious Akino finds her hands full with the customers’ challenging requests. These range from hard-to-find merchandise to more complicated matters of the heart. Can the inexperienced Akino fulfill their whims and meet their expectations? If she wants to keep her job, she’ll have to succeed while under constant observation by the fussy floor manager Mr. Todo, a creepy consultant eager to downsize the staff, and the store’s enigmatic president (who is not a penguin, by the way!).
