The anime will have its international premiere as a closing-day screening of Montreal’s 25th Fantasia International Film Festival on August 25.
Ushio Tazawa (chief animation director for Makoto Shinkai works such as The Place Promised in Our Early Days) is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMS.
A website opened on Thursday to announce that an original short anime titled “Deji” Meets Girl will premiere “in the tail end of the Super Animeism” block in October on MBS, TBS, and 26 other affiliated stations.