The official Youtube channel of Aniplex of America has just revealed an English-subtitled trailer for the upcoming North American screening of the Rascal Does Not Dream of A Dreaming Girl movie. Check out the trailer https://youtu.be/JqHS7nylmVQ!
The North American release of the movie is a collaboration between Aniplex and Funimation Films. The film will be screening in select US cities on October 2 & 3, and on October 4 & 5 in Canada. Advance ticket sales began on September 6. The film was also screened in advance during the Anime Expo event last July 7.
You can check out here if there is a theater near you that will screen the movie.
The series’ main staff and cast returned for the film, such as director Soichi Masui, scriptwriter Masahiro Yokotani, and character designer Satomi Tamura. The film is also produced by CloverWorks.
Rascal Does Not Dream of A Dreaming Girl movie opened in Japan last June 15. The movie is an adaptation of the sixth and seventh light novel volumes of Hajime Kamoshida’s Seishun Buta Yarou/ Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai series. The light novel series was first published in 2014 and was adapted into an anime series by CloverWorks in 2018.
The film’s story is described by Aniplex of America as such:
“In Fujiwara, where the skies are bright and the seas glisten, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. His blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted with the appearance of his first crush, Shoko Makinohara. For reasons unknown, he encounters two Shokos: one in middle school and another who has become an adult.
As Sakuta finds himself helplessly living with Shoko, the adult Shoko leads him around by the nose, causing a huge rift in his relationship with Mai.
In the midst of all this, he discovers that the middle school Shoko is suffering from a grave illness and his scar begins to throb…”
Source: Anime News Network