New Trailer for ‘Ancien and the Magic Tablet’ Anime Film Features Full Theme Song

A new trailer for the anime film Ancien and the Magic Tablet was released by Warner Bros. Japan on Saturday. The four minute trailer also features the movie’s full theme song which is a cover of “Daydream Believer” performed by Mitsuki Takahata. The song’s original performer is by The Monkees. You check out the movie trailer below:

Here’s a synopsis of the film as described by the NYICFF:

This fender and genre-bending film takes us into the not-too-distant machine-driven future. Kokone should be diligently studying for her university entrance exams, but she just can’t seem to stay awake. Aside from stealing precious study time, her napping is even more distracting, as it brings on strange dreams with warring machines that hint at family secrets that have been dormant for years. She can’t ask her father, a hipster mechanic more talented and artful than his job requires, as he’s always busy modifying motorcycles and cars in flights of fancy. What are these visions that lead Kokone at once closer to and farther away from her family? Like all the best anime, the film revels in multilayered fantasy to show how sometimes opposites—waking and dreaming, the past and the future—are far more intertwined than they appear.

The movie is slated to premiere at the New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) on March 18. The March 19 screening will have Japanese language with English subtitles.

More information can be found at Anime News Network.