Shochiku lineup announced for 2023-2024 release! A wide variety of films are scheduled to be released, including "My Favorite Child Forgot His Glasses" and "Liar Liar."

Shochiku has announced the lineup of movies and animated films to be presented by the company in the 2023-2024 fiscal year.

The lineup includes "Black Clover: The Sword of the Magical Emperor," a heart-stopping magical battle action film serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump (opening on June 16); "Special Edition: Sound the Sound," a popular series produced by Kyoto Animation, the first completely new film in four years; and "Euphonium: Ensemble Contest," which will be screened in summer! Euphonium - Ensemble Contest" (summer screening), "THE IDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE! Act 1 - Act 3" (Act 1 to be screened from 8/18, Act 2 from 9/8, and Act 3 from 9/29), and "My Favorite Girl Forgot Her Glasses" (on air in 23 years), a TV anime adaptation of the original story that has been attracting tens of thousands of likes on Twitter and is currently generating a lot of buzz as "causing the maximum wind speed in love. The lineup includes a variety of appealing works.

2023-2024 Shochiku lineup announced!

■"Mahoutsukai no Yome SEASON 2
The WITCH ONE'S WIFE", an authentic fantasy manga about an outsider x a girl, which has sold over 10 million copies in total.
The anime adaptation project was launched in 2016 and has been well received both in Japan and abroad, and now "SEASON 2" TV anime broadcast has been decided!

<Broadcast Date> On-air from April 6, 2023 (Thursday)
＜Cast & Staff
Original story: "Mahoutsukai no Yome" by Colle Yamazaki (Blade Comics/Mag Garden)
Director: Kazuaki Terasawa
Animation Production: Studio Kafka
Cast: Atsumi Tanezaki, Ryota Takeuchi, Koki Uchiyama, Aya Endo, etc.

(C)2022 Yamazaki Korre/Mag Garden/WITCH ON THE HOLY MERCHANT'S WIFE Production Committee

■"Stand My Heroes WARMTH OF MEMORIES
A new "Stand My Heroes" OVA, which was also developed into a TV anime, will be produced in 2019!
The story of the new group "Seo Laboratory", long-awaited by fans of the original story, will be spun.

＜Blu-ray & DVD will be released on May 24, 2023 (Wed.) / Digital distribution will begin.
<Cast & Staff>
Director： Hitomi Ezoe Screenplay： Sayaka Harada Original Story：coly
Cast: Hiro Shimono, KENN, Souma Saito, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Takehito Koyasu, Misato Murai

(C)coly/Stamai WOM Production Committee

Black Clover: Sword of the Magical Emperor
Serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump". A heart-stopping magical battle action!
The original author, Hiroki Tabata, supervised the production! A film adaptation of the story of the "Magical Emperor" that was never revealed in the original work!
The story of the "Magical Emperor", which was never revealed in the original story, is made into a movie!

<Date of release> June 16, 2023 (Friday)
＜Cast & Staff
Original Story, Supervisor, Character Planning: Hiroki Tabata (serialized in Shueisha's "Weekly Shonen Jump")
Director：Ayataka Tanemura
Cast: Takehito Kajiwara, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Junichi Suwabe, Marie Iide, Fumiya Takahashi

(C) 2023 "Black Clover the Movie" Production Committee (C) Hiroki Tabata / Shueisha

Special Edition: "Sound it out! Euphonium - Ensemble Contest".
Since the TV anime began airing in 2015, the "Hibike. Euphonium" series has depicted the adolescence of a high school brass band! Euphonium" series.
Euphonium" series, which has been long-awaited for four years, will be screened in theaters as a medium-length animation in the summer of 2023!

<Release> Summer Screening
＜Cast & Staff
Cast：Kumiko Kiomae：Tomoyo Kurosawa Hazuki Kato：Ayaka Asai Midoriteru Kawashima：Moe Toyoda Rena Kosaka：Chika Asai
Original story: Ayano Takeda (Takarajimasha Bunko "Hibike. Euphonium") Euphonium: The True Story of Kita-Uji High School Brass Band Club")
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara Animation Production: Kyoto Animation Production: "Hibikake! Production Committee

(C) Ayano Takeda, Takarajimasya / "Hibike! Production Committee

■"THE IDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE! Act 1 - Act 3
The story centers on Mirai Kasuga, Shizuka Mogami, and Tsubasa Ibuki, and depicts the beginnings and growth of the 39 idols and their base of operations, the 765 Pro Live Theater (Ruby: Theater).
Prior to the TV broadcast starting in October, all 12 episodes will be screened in movie theaters nationwide from August 18 in a three-act configuration!

<Date of release> August 18 (Friday), September 8 (Friday), and September 29 (Friday), 2023
<Cast & Staff> Director: Shinya Watada
Director：Shinya Watada Series Composition/Screenplay：Yoichi Kato
Animation Production: Shirogumi Planning/Production/Original Story: Namco Bandai Entertainment Inc.
Cast: Mirai Kasuga / Haruka Yamazaki / Shizuka Mogami / Azusa Tadokoro / Tsubasa Ibuki / Machico, etc.

(C)Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.

■"My Favorite Girl Forgot Her Glasses
This is a Twitter-based animation! This is an anime adaptation of the original story, which has been getting tens of thousands of likes every time it appears on Twitter, and which has become the talk of the town for its "instantaneous maximum wind speed in love. This is a pure and innocent love comedy about a natural heroine who always "forgets her glasses" and a gentlemanly boy who is a bit of a dope, starting from "zero distance"!

<Broadcasting period> On-air in 2023.
＜Cast & Staff
Original story: Koume Fujichika (Published in monthly magazine "GUNGAN JOKER" by Square Enix)

(C) Koume Fujichika / SQUARE ENIX, Production Committee Forgot My Glasses

■"Liar Liar
Liar Liar," a popular school brain game and romantic comedy currently being published by MF Bunko J, has finally been adapted into a TV anime!
Win everything with lies and wit. The school brain battle begins now!

<Broadcast ＞ On-air in summer
＜Cast & Staff
Cast: Nakamura Genta, Suto Shina, Kuramochi Wakana, etc.
Original story: Haruki Hisaoi (MF Bunko J "Liar Liar" published by KADOKAWA)
Director: Satoru Ohno, Naoki Matsuura Series Composition: Momoka Toyoda
Animation Production: GEEKTOYS

(C)2023 Haruki Hisaoi/KADOKAWA/Liar Liar Production Committee

■"Ark Knights [Winter Hide and Seek / PERISH IN FROST
Developed by Hypergryph and operated by Yostar, Inc.
The second season of the TV anime series "Ark Knights [Fuyugakure Kouji/PERISH IN FROST]" based on the game "Ark Knights - Tomorrow's Ark" will be produced!

(C)Hypergryph / Studio Montagne

■"Blue Archive The Animation
A TV animation of "Blue Archive", a popular smartphone application game, school x youth x story RPG, developed by NEXON Games and managed by Yostar, the company behind "Azure Lane", "Ark Knights" and "Jakumon", is now in production!

(C) NEXON Games Co.

Theater version of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (tentative title)
Release : In production
＜Cast & Staff
Director : Mitsuo Fukuda