Crunchyroll announced The Concierge anime movie will coming to theaters across North America in 2024. The company is teaming up with Sony Pictures Entertainment for the film’s distribution.
The Concierge at Hokkyoku Department Store 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. In Japan, the movie is launching first on October 20 as Hokkyoku Hyakkaten no Concierge-san.
The Concierge Anime Movie Comes to the West
An exact release date for the North American release of The Concierge was not revealed, but Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures confirm it will release in 2024. Fans can expect the new film to be shown across several theaters in North America according to the Crunchyroll’s latest blog post.
Watch the latest trailer below from Crunchyroll’s YouTube channel:
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. Myuk will perform the theme song “Gift”.
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!).
