56-year-old Kazuhiro Furuhashi, who recently worked on Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, is attached to write and direct the first part “Benio, Hana no Junana-sai” (Benio, Radiant 17 Years Old) to be released in Japan this Saturday, November 11.
Then the second part “Tokyo Dai Roman” (Big Romance in Tokyo) directed by Mitsuko Kase (Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory) will follow sometime in 2018.
Comic Natalie posted a 90-second clip from the upcoming first part of the two-part all-new anime feature film based on Waki Yamato’s popular shoujo manga in the mid-1970s, Haikara-san ga Tooru (Here Comes Miss Modern), introducing the accidental first encounter between the protagonist Benio Hanamura (CV: Saori Hayami) and her future fiancé Shinobu Ijuin (Mamoru Miyano).