Flag Pictures has announced that Kyoto Animation will produce an anime film adaptation of the Credits Roll Into the Sea manga. The film will release in 2027.
Taichi Ishidate, who has previously worked on Violet Evergarden and CITY the Animation, will direct the upcoming movie, and Shochiku will distribute it. John Tarachine initially released the manga in 2020. Its 8th compiled book volume released in July 2025, and its final volume will release on May 15. Dark Horse will license the manga for English release, which will start with its first volume on July 7. Check out the trailer revealing the Credits Roll Into the Sea anime film below:
Dark Horse describes the manga as follows:
“It’s not the movies you like…you like watching the people watching the movies.”
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…?
