3DCG movie version of "Gamba" collaborates with Gamba Osaka!　Posters featuring the three players as rats are displayed around the stadium

A collaboration visual with Gamba Osaka has been announced for the animated film "GAMBA Gamba and Friends," which will be released on October 10.

GAMBA Gamba and Friends" is a 3DCG animation film based on the classic children's novel "The Adventurers: Gamba and His 15 Friends," whose TV animation version "Gamba's Adventure" (1975) is known for its high quality that is hard to believe that it was made for children. The film is produced by Shirogumi, the same company that created the outstanding 3DCG animation for the blockbuster hit "STAND BY ME Doraemon," and uses today's most advanced visual technology to depict a magnificent adventure story in which a group of small mice join forces to fight a giant enemy. It is said to be a major project that took 15 years from conception to completion, took 10 years to produce, and cost 2 billion yen. It has been 24 years since "The Adventures of Gamba and the Otter" was released in 1991. The project is planned and directed by Yoichi Ogawa, vice president of Hakugumi, directed by Tomohiro Kawamura and Takahiro Komori of Hakugumi, and written by Ryota Furusawa, who also wrote the script for the live-action film version of "Yosei Zyu.

The collaboration with Gamba Osaka, a professional soccer club belonging to the J-League, was decided in connection with the "Gamba" connection. The collaboration visual has been unveiled. In the collaboration visual, Yasuhito Endo, Takashi Usami, and Akira Kurata, three players who have experience representing Japan, are transformed into rats, and the three players and the eleven of Gamba and friends gather on the pitch of Gamba Osaka's home stadium, the Expo '70 Memorial Stadium. Posters featuring this collaboration visual will be displayed at facilities around Gamba Osaka's home stadium. The posters will attract a lot of attention from supporters and children.

Comments by Yasuhito Endo
（I am very happy (to collaborate with the movie "GAMBA Gamba and Friends"). The collaboration poster has a cute design, and I am looking forward to seeing the movie.

Takashi Usami commented
I am very happy to collaborate with "Gamba" as the same "Gamba". (Looking at himself as a rat) He is a very cute character and I like him very much. Gamba" in Gamba Osaka means "legs" in Italian, but it also means "work hard. The "Gamba" in the movie is also "Gamba," which means "hard-working Gamba," and I hope we will work together to do our best!

Akira Kurata comment
You have captured the good traits of each one of them and made them into cute characters. I am very much looking forward to the movie! I was very surprised at the power of the CG when I saw the trailer. As the phrase "friends are courageous," we will do our best to win the championship together with our friends, so please support us.