Back in the spring, Mamou Hosoda, director of critically acclaimed anime including Summer Wars, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and Wolf Children, announced he was working on a new film, to be titled Mirai, for a 2018 release.
Sharing duties as animation directors are Hiroyuki Aoyama, animation director for The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars, and Ayako Hata, who, along with Aoyama, served as an animation director on episodes of the Den-noh Coil TV series.
Hosoda’s return to time travel, a genre he had great success with in The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, is definitely something for fans to get excited about, especially since flipping the relative ages of Kun and Mirai upsets the usual Japanese dynamic of seniors protecting their juniors and juniors deferentially respecting their seniors.
It’s since had a slight name change, becoming Mirai no Mirai, or Mirai from the Future, and the first trailer has just been released.