Just this Wednesday, a new trailer for For Whom the Alchemist Exists was released in the Anime! Anime! website and Youtube channel. The anime film is an adaptation of the hit smartphone game The Alchemist Code. Check out the trailer below:
The trailer also previews the movie’s theme song Namida (Tears) sung by Huwie Ishizaki. He also sang the movie’s ED song Ano Natsu no Hi no Mahou (The Magic in the Summer).
Inori Minase will be voicing Kasumi Nagasaka, a film-original character. She will be joined by Ryota Ohsaka, who will reprise his role from the game as Edgar L. Leonhart. Other cast members from the game who will return for the film are:
• Ai Furihata
• Natsuki Hanae
• Kaito Ishikawa
• Yui Horie
• Hitomi Nabatame
• Yūma Uchida
• Asami Imai
• Saori Hayami
• Takuya Eguchi
• Lynn
• Jun Fukuyama
The upcoming anime film will be directed by Masanori Takahashi, with Toshizo Nemoto writing the scripts. Animation studio Satelight will be animating the film. Veteran director Shoji Kawamori, most known for Macross, is attached to the film as its chief director. He first worked on The Alchemist Code when he directed the game’s opening video, which then led to his involvement in the film adaptation.
The Alchemist Code is developed by Fumi & gumi Games and was released in January 2016 in Japan, and in November 2017 for international gamers. The game’s theme revolves around the Seven Deadly Sins. Anime News Network describes the game’s story as the following:
The game is set on the continent of Babel, where the Tower of Babel looms large over seven nations. After the invention of alchemy led to its use as a tool of war that brought humanity to the brink of extinction, the seven nations struck an uneasy peace that led to a prohibition on alchemy for hundreds of years since. In the Continental Year 911, the nation of Lustrice broke the pact by assembling an army bolstered by alchemy, with ambitions of conquest over the continent. Led by Envylia, the six nations allied and struck down the rogue nation, casting alchemy once again to darkness. But 20 years after the war, alchemy once again begins to cause chaos in the land.
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