“Child of Kamiari Month” Anime Film Announces Delayed 2021 Opening, Star-Studded Cast

Kobe-based anime studio Cretica Universal has just announced that the release of their anime film project Child of Kamiari Month (Kamiari no Kodomo) will be delayed to 2021. This sad news, however, was accompanied by some exciting news, as the studio has announced its star-studded main cast.

Popular TV and movie actress Aju Makita (TV movie Chibi Maruko-chan, 2018 movie Shoplifters) stars as lead character Kanna. This will be Makita’s first-ever voice acting role. She will be joined by veteran voice actress Maaya Sakamoto (Vision of Escaflowne’s Hitomi Kanzaki, Ouran High School Host Club’s Haruhi Fujioka), who will be voicing Shiro, a one-winged rabbit messenger of the gods. Another veteran voice actor, Miyu Irino (Spirited Away’s Haku, Tsubasa Reservoir CHRoNiCLE’s Syaoran), will be joining the cast as the oni boy Yasha.

Cretica Universal also launched a third wave of crowdfunding for the movie, which is set to end this June. The first wave of crowdfunding launched last March 2019.

The movie was originally slated for a release this year.

Child of Kamiari Month tells the story of Kanna, a girl who has lost her love for running after her mother dies. One day, a rabbit named Shiro and an oni boy named Yasha appear before her and lead her to cross the boundary between people and the gods to head to Izumo City. The film centers on the Izumo Shrine and the Kamiari myth in the region—the month of October is called in Izumo as “Kamiarizuki”, or the month of gods. This is rooted in the legend that the myriad gods of Japan gather at the Izumo Shrine during October.

The film is directed by Takana Shirai (assistant animation director for Children of the Sea), with Tetsuro Satomi (Ninja Batman) as animation producer, Tomomi Mochizuki (Ocean Waves) as storyboard writer, and Haruka Sagawa (Tada Hitotsu no Hajimari no Uta) as character designer.

Source: Crunchyroll News