GKIDS has announced that Macross creator Shoji Kawamori’s original anime film Labyrinth will open in theaters for two nights only on May 10 to 11 in North America. The Labyrinth anime film will be playing in Japanese with English subtitles, along with an English dub.
Labyrinth opened on January 1 in theaters in Japan.
The cast of Labyrinth includes:
- Atarashii Gakkō! group member Suzuka as Shiori Maezawa / Shiori@Revolution
- timelesz idol group member Takuto Teranishi as Suguru Kagami
- Taizō Harada as Komori
- Aoi Itō as Kirara Kurashina
- Jun Saitō as Kento Yamada
- Shō Hayami as Keizō Maezawa
- Maaya Sakamoto as Yoriko Maezawa
- Tomokazu Sugita as Tōsaka
- Yūichi Nakamura
- Yūma Uchida
- Inori Minase
- Kana Hanazawa
- Yōko Hikasa
- Aya Endō
- May’n
- Megumi Nakajima
- Ami Koshimizu
- Kiyono Yasuno
- Minori Suzuki
- Nao Tōyama
- Nozomi Nishida
- Kenjirō Tsuda
- Yūki Kaji
- Soyogi Soyogi (the voice synthesis software from Yūki Kaji’s voice AI project)
- Takuma Terashima
- Hiroki Nanami
Atarashii Gakkō! performs the Labyrinth film’s theme song “Sailor, Sail On,” which is composed by yonkey.
Shoji Kawamori directed the anime film at SANZIGEN. Risa Ebata handled the character design, and Taichi Hashimoto wrote the script. Slow Curve, Vector Vision, GAGA, and Fuji Television are credited with the original story concept. Slow Curve is also credited with planning and producing the project.
Additional staff members include:
- CG Supervisor: Naoya Okugawa
- Chief Animation Director: Takuya Chanohara
- Color Key Artist: Mana Watanabe
- Production Design: Barnstorm Design Labo
- Background Director: Tatsuki Ooishi, Hirofumi Morikawa
- Compositing Director of Photography: Shouko Hayashi
- Editing: Hatsumi Hidaka
- Sound Director: Fumiyuki Go
- Sound Effects: Ryūta Nakahara
- Sound Production: Bit Groove Production
- Music Producer: Yoshirō Tanemura
- Animation Producer: Hiroaki Matsuura
- Development Producer: Shōta Hozumi
- Production: Tatsumi Yoda, Yōka MAtsuzaki
- Producers: Ken Teraizumi, Kazuki Ōshima, Masako Iwamoto
- Creative Producer: Taichi Hashimoto
- Planning Producer: Toshiaki Obata
The Labyrinth (Meikyū no Shiori) film centers around the life of high school student Shiori Maezawa, who is transported into another world after her smartphone breaks. She then notices strange photos of herself on social media that she doesn’t remember posting and realizes a version of herself is acting independently in the real world. Shiori must now escape the digital labyrinth and confront the impostor.
