Anime Movie 'Birthday Wonderland' Announces Additional Staff and Cast Members

by tsubasalover
Feb 18, 2019 9:23 PM | 10 Comments

The official website for the previously announced Birthday Wonderland anime movie has announced additional staff and cast members as well as revealing a new trailer. Singer-songwriter milet will be performing the image and insert song "Wonderland" as well as the theme song "THE SHOW," which is a cover of the Australian singer Lenka's song. Directed by Keiichi Hara, the movie will premiere in Japanese theaters on April 26.

Staff
Music: Harumi Fuuki (Tsurune: Kazemai Koukou Kyuudoubu)
Producer: Makoto Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Fujita, Atsuhiro Iwakami, Hiroyuki Ikeda, Kei Morita, Katsuji Morishita
Plan: Yoko Matsushita (Yami no Matsuei mangaka), Mitsuhisa Ishikawa (Blade of the Immortal)
Executive Producer: Yoshihiko Taneda
Producer: Yoshinori Takeeda (Ikebukuro PR Anime), Fuminori Honda (Hashiri Tsuzukete Yokattatte.), Yoshiyuki Chounan (Duel Masters VS)
Animation Director: Takayuki Urakami (Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki key animation), Naoki Kobayashi (Sword Art Online Movie: Ordinal Scale), Tomohisa Shimoyama (Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome), Kouichi Arai (Summer Wars key animation), Shingo Takenaka (Ballroom e Youkoso key animation), Hideki Itou (Natsume Yuujinchou Movie: Utsusemi ni Musubu director), Fumi Yamamoto
Direction: Takakazu Seki (Major 2nd storyboard)
Color Design: Maya Kusumoto (Doraemon: Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding art)
Art Director: Takashi Nakamura (Kokoro ga Sakebitagatterunda.)
CG Director: Takumi Endou (Uchiage Hanabi, Shita kara Miru ka? Yoko kara Miru ka?)
Director of Photography: Kouji Tanaka (Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai)
Editing: Shigeru Nishiyama (Bungou Stray Dogs series)
Assistance: Agency for Cultural Affairs: Cultural Art Promotion Expenses Subsidiary Aid (Movie Production Activity Support Business) National Corporation Japan Art Culture Promotion Association
Distribution: Warner Bros. Pictures
Studio: Signal.MD
Production: Birthday Wonderland Production Committee (Fuji TV, Dentsu, Aniplex, Warner Bros. Pictures, KDDI, Signal.MD）

Cast
Chii: Anne Watanabe (Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai)
Hippocrates: Masachika Ichimura (Giovanni no Shima)
Pipo: Nao Touyama (Juushinki Pandora)
Midori: Kumiko Aso (Mirai no Mirai)
Zan Gu: Keiji Fujiwara (Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn - Prologue)
Doropo: Akiko Yajima (Usuzumizakura: Garo)

Trailer

Source: Comic Natalie

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New key visual
https://natalie.mu/comic/news/321596

BD & DVD Releasing on November 6
https://moca-news.net/article/20190908/2019090800400a_/01/

Feb 26, 2019 8:49 PM by tsubasalover

VanishingKira said:

Synchronisity said:

because Ilya Kuvshinov worked on it as character designer. He/she announced it first on Reddit-

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/adofww/birthday_wonderland_teaser_trailer_my_first_work/

I know that I wasn't talking about this I was talking Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045's key visual
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38799/Ghost_in_the_Shell__SAC_2045

lol dont be fooled its def gonna be cgi for gits...its Sola studio

Feb 19, 2019 4:29 PM by moodie

@kyuudere Thanks. I did check the official site, but I guess I completely missed the very bottom of the page. I've added the list (by the way, I've already mentioned director and character designer in the previously announced news).

Feb 19, 2019 1:09 PM by tsubasalover

It seems major anime news site completely missed the staff and studio...

Anyway here it is

Director: Keiichi Hara
Character Design: Kuvshinov Ilya
Direction: Takakazu Nagatomo
Animation Director:
Takayuki Uragami
Naoki Kobayashi
Tomohisa Shimoyama
Kouichi Arai
Shingo Takenaka
Hideki Ito
Fumi Yamada
Studio: Signal.MD

Production I.G's president Ishikawa is listed as planner, and he sent I.G staff to help their affiliated studio Signal.MD by sending the like of Shingo Takenaka. A lot of traction for animation fans too since Naoki Kobayashi of Naruto Shippuden (and Boruto movie) fame being there, which probably means the legend Norio Matsumoto will help him too. Speaking of legend, Kouichi Arai is a big surprise too, with him around, it won't be weird if we got to see some veteran animators, especially since we're speaking of renowned Director of Hara's calibre. Signal M.D has a lot of good connection, one of their animation Producer Fuminori Honda particularly is my main interest since he can pull his connection with Kou Yoshinari and Kei Suezawa. Lastly I'm eager to see the direction, Hara is assisted by Takakazu Nagatomo, I'm not familiar with his work, but since his roots is from family oriented anime like Sazae-san and Nintama Rintaro, I can expect good direction from both of them. Now I'm praying for this movie to get an international screenings ASAP.

Feb 19, 2019 9:41 AM by kyuudere

VanishingKira said:

Synchronisity said:

because Ilya Kuvshinov worked on it as character designer. He/she announced it first on Reddit-

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/adofww/birthday_wonderland_teaser_trailer_my_first_work/

I know that I wasn't talking about this I was talking Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045's key visual
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38799/Ghost_in_the_Shell__SAC_2045

oof my bad and yeap, that indeed looks like Ilya's work.

Feb 19, 2019 6:51 AM by Synchronisity

VanishingKira said:
if anything atleast this will give us a good idea of what Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 might look like,cause while unconfirmed it's key visual looks very Ilya Kuvshinov like so it likely is him there too

because Ilya Kuvshinov worked on it as character designer. He/she announced it first on Reddit-

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/adofww/birthday_wonderland_teaser_trailer_my_first_work/

Feb 19, 2019 6:34 AM by Synchronisity

I almost thought it wasn't CGI, though that may have been because the screen was so small

Feb 19, 2019 5:15 AM by NG_Chloe

Woah Anne Watanabe in an anime again.

Feb 19, 2019 1:35 AM by ZachM

Stunning animation, other than that, dunno how I feel about this. It has potential I guess

Feb 19, 2019 1:10 AM by Xenocrisi

I can see quite a few people being turned off from this trailer but I thought it looked pretty good.

Feb 18, 2019 10:40 PM by Calal-Chan