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Manga 'Hokkyoku Hyakkaten no Concierge-san' Gets Anime Movie

by DatRandomDude
Apr 24, 2023 6:24 PM | 7 Comments
Production company Aniplex opened an official website for an anime movie adaptation of Tsuchika Nishimura's Hokkyoku Hyakkaten no Concierge-san (The Concierge at Arctic Department Store) manga on Tuesday. The website also revealed the main staff and a teaser visual (pictured). The movie is scheduled to open in theaters in Fall 2023.

Staff
Director: Yoshimi Itazu (Ballroom e Youkoso)
Script: Satomi Ooshima (Koukyuu no Karasu)
Studio: Production I.G
Distribution: Aniplex

Nishimura began serializing the fantasy manga in Big Comic Zoukan in February 2017. Shogakukan shipped the second volume in October 2020.

Hokkyoku Hyakkaten no Concierge-san won the Excellence Award at the 25th Japan Media Art Festival in the Manga Division in 2022.

Synopsis
Akino works in the most exclusive department store in the city as a concierge: his job is to take care of customers and understand their needs. But there is a peculiarity: the customers are all... animals! Many of them are also Very Important Animals; they are extinct or almost extinct! (Source: Baka-Updates)

Official site: https://hokkyoku-dept.com/
Official Twitter: @HOKKYOKU_Dept

Source: Comic Natalie

Hokkyoku Hyakkaten no Concierge-san on MAL

7 Comments Recent Comments

Movie adaptations has been pretty recent for mangas/novels I've never heard about before lol

May 6, 2023 2:07 AM by CQLLIST

Wanted to give this a pass until it said that the customers are all animals, ok, into my PTW it goes!

Apr 28, 2023 10:25 AM by Dauphine

Manga is pretty specific. Hope that the movie will be good and interesting to watch.

Apr 25, 2023 10:20 AM by Memore

Is this woman the only full-fledged character here? Or even the only person?

Apr 25, 2023 4:58 AM by RobertBobert

Is this one of those John Wick spin-offs ? 

Apr 25, 2023 12:23 AM by Swagernator

Looks interesting. I will be watching.

Apr 24, 2023 9:44 PM by ZXEAN

Movie adaptation ? Looks interesting about the source material too

Apr 24, 2023 7:27 PM by Zoshlog

It’s time to ditch the text file.
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