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Weathering With You Released Monday

On Monday September 28, RADWIMPS, and will come with Steelbook packaging.

GKIDS, which distributed Weathering With You in America, describes the film:

The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong­willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky...

Shinkai is credited with the original work, and also directed and wrote the film's scripts for Tōko Miura sang RADWIMPS' "Grand Escape (Movie edit) feat. Tōko Miura" and "Shukusai (Movie edit) feat. Tōko Miura" theme songs for the film.

The Deluxe editions of the film will follow on November 2.

Sentai Filmworks, which released the series in America, describes the story:

"When the girls in the literature club ask themselves, “What do you want to do before you die?” one of them gives a most surprising response. Now they're all preoccupied (for better or for worse) by their friend's unexpected answer! Soon each of these very different young women find themselves propelled along the uncertain road to adulthood, their emotional journeys taking them down paths as surprising as their friend's unconventional wish. Poignant, painful and awkward in turns, O Maidens in Your Savage Season chronicles with humour and with grace the universal rites of age so endemic to growing up."

Rewrite) was in charge of the character designs.

Funimation, which released the series in America, described the story:

"From the director of Grimgar, Ashes and Illusions, comes a war-torn world on the brink of calamity. Able to summon fairies as alter-ego weapons, former soldiers become government dogs, mafia , and even terrorists in search of purpose beyond the battlefield. Who will maintain the peace they all fought for nine years ago?"

Sōsei no Aquarion Love) designed the characters for animation.

Manga Entertainment will also release a collection of the two TV seasons of Shōtarō Tokunō, the main character Aoba Suzukaze graduates from high school and s a game company. The person who made the game that Aoba loved as a grade-schooler just happens to be Aoba's senior at the company. The story follows girls who work and aspire at the Eaglejump company.

Anime Limited will release the second volume of Tokyo Ghoul:re, carrying episodes 13 to 24 of the series.