The official website for Dragon Quest Your Story, the Dragon Quest game franchise’s first 3D CG anime film, revealed which characters that five cast members will play in the film on Tuesday.
The franchise’s most recent main game, Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age (Dragon Quest XI: Sugisarishi Toki o Motomete), shipped in Japan for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo 3DS in July 2017.
Takashi Yamazaki (Stand By Me Doraemon, live-action Parasyte films, live-action Space Battleship Yamato film) is the chief director and scriptwriter, and Ryūichi Yagi (Stand By Me Doraemon, Friends: Naki on Monster Island) and Makoto Hanafusa (Stand By Me Doraemon art director) are directing the film.
The game’s Switch version, Dragon Quest XI S: Sugisarishi Toki o Motomete, is slated for release this year.