 Toei Video opened an official Twitter account and crowdfunding campaign for an original anime film titled Cherry and Virgin on Tuesday. The film, marking Masanao Kawajiri's feature film directorial debut, will be released as early as Summer 2022.Synopsis Cherry and Virgin is a romantic comedy featuring a 32-year-old "eromanga" author Ryou and a 28-year-old "fujoshi'' Ami. Neither character is great at interacting with members of the opposite gender—Ryou is somewhat of an otaku and defenseless against women, and Ami does not have a good impression of 3D men. After a fateful encounter, the story follows the two as they learn to navigate a sea of interpersonal relationships and come to better understand the bitter and sweet aspects of modern relationships. Actors Takashi Ookado and Yaeko Kiyose are portraying Ryou Honda and Ami Enomoto, respectively. Katsuya Takayanagi drew the character designs for Ryou Honda and Ryou Nakahara designed Ami Enomoto. Kawajiri previously worked as a director and storyboarder on the Stella Jogakuin Koutou-ka C³-bu television anime. His most recent work, Aru Nihon no Ekaki Shounen (A Japanese Boy Who Draws), is a short anime film that incorporates different art and animation styles as the characters in the story progress through different stages of their lives. Kawajiri continues this trend with Cherry and Virgin, which will feature rotoscoping and traditional cel animation. Kawajiri expressed that he does not view this project to be in the same vein as mainstream Japanese animation; rather than a story with characters in their teens brimming with potential, this story is a painful yet light-hearted look at a woman nearing her 30s attempting to grasp the remainder of her fleeting youth. He goes on to say that the film is meant to be a slightly challenging and uncomfortable drama, but the discussions of themes in the story such as "the differences between men and women," "dreams versus reality," and "soul-searching and self-fulfillment" are refreshing and provide for a richer story. Toei Video and Kawajiri launched the crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for advertising and hope to also submit the film to overseas film festivals. The campaign has raised 416,000 yen (approx. US$3,800) toward its 3 million yen (approx. US$27,550) goal as of April 28 and will end on August 16. Production Teaser Crowdfunding page: https://motion-gallery.net/projects/candv2022 Official Twitter: @candvMovie Source: Comic Natalie News submitted by 2KIRA Cherry and Virgin on MAL |
ImperfectBlueApr 28, 2021 2:48 PM
| this seems interesting not gonna lie |
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| bump since i’m interested in this. it looks good |
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| I like the synopsis and the idea, but I'm not sure about the animation. If they do well with the animation, it'll be loved by many. |
| I sometimes forget to finish my sentences. |
| This looks interesting and cute! Even though rotoscoping was used, from what's shown in the teaser, I think it was done tastefully. The drama from Aku no Hana's rotoscoping is still fresh on my mind. |
p r o f i l e 👀 |
| I love the concept, and the animation makes it look at much more unique. Can't wait for this to come out |
| Good to see some mature romance anime aside for hundreds of highschool rom_com , also rotoscoping is used that's something new , atleast for me I haven't seen any anime that used rotoscoping |
| Seems nice! Hope this crowdfunding works, I'd love to see this movie win an Oscar or an Annie, that trama sure helps |
i fucking hate manga (keeps reading manga discord ~ ganjithedude |
| Not gonna lie. The tittle got me hype up and even more after reading the synopsis. 😅 |
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| The synopsis looks pretty nice, the rest are the art and rotoscoping which I hope both of them will turn out to be a good one. |
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| this actually seems pretty interesting !! the fact that they're adults too are also really nice, cant wait for this hope it goes well |
| Cherry x Virgin, that's quite the title lol. |
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| I can think of at least 2 things wrong with that title. |
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| Heh I'm interested to watch this |
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| Oooh this looks cool with the unique artstyles. |
| Why does the title of this film sound like the title of an 80s romantic comedy and a porn film at the same time? |
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| Premise sounds straight up stupid |
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| Ngl the title made me think this would be hentai lmao I am not too interested in the concept but as long as the script is decent and the animation is fluid it will probably be a success |
| It looks like there is no way to easily translate and contribute (if there was a stretch goal of subtitled in English, I'd throw money at it). |
| Saw this when the crowdfunding campaign got uploaded and absolutely fell in love with it. I sincerely hope it gets all the attention it deserves, it’s gonna be something special. |
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NG_Chloe said: Ooo I see , although I haven't watched kaguya sama ,. Zean_9435 said: Good to see some mature romance anime aside for hundreds of highschool rom_com , also rotoscoping is used that's something new , atleast for me I haven't seen any anime that used rotoscoping Have you seen Attack on titan the final season Jujutsu kaisen Or the Chika dance in Kaguya-sama love is war I know those series used a bit of Rotoscoping for select parts jujutsu kaisen and AOT S4 used rotoscoping that's really surprising , I would have never guessed that |
ZXEANApr 28, 2021 9:00 AM
| >US$27,550 goal so its a short film, maybe 10-15 minutes runtime |
| Nah, its a feature film. the crowdfunding is just to help for advertising. |
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DatRandomDude said: Nah, its a feature film. the crowdfunding is just to help for advertising. ah ok i was wondering why the budget goal is that so low |
| All of this just screams one word: INTERESTING! Rotoscoping in anime is not new, though the production quality must match what it was made for. |
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| The title intrigued me but the synopsis did too :00 |
| It would be funny if the film was blackpilled, but I highly doubt that to be the case. Most anime romance does not aim for realism for obvious reasons. I may check it out eventually though. |
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| This looks interesting and cute !!:D |
| mhhh this sounds fairly interesting... It's like every weeb's wet dream. Ohhh kinda forgot, everyone had moved on from that dream and now are simping for vtubers.... ohhh well... |
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