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Mai Mai Miracle Director to Hold Reddit Ask Me Anything Session
posted on by Karen Ressler
British distributor Anime Limited announced on Monday that Mai Mai Miracle director Sunao Katabuchi will hold an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit on Thursday, February 27 at 6 p.m. EST. The thread will be open 15 minutes before the start time to begin taking questions.
Anime Limited opened a Kickstarter earlier this month to release Katabuchi and MADHOUSE's anime film adaptation of Nobuko Takagi's Mai Mai Miracle (Mai Mai Shinko to Sennen no Mahō) novel in the United States and United Kingdom. Within one day of launching the campaign, the company met its US$30,000 for an English-subtitled release, and within a week had added and met a stretch goal for an English dub. The company plans to produce the dub "with friends in the USA," and is soliciting suggestions for who should produce the dub.
The Kickstarter has currently raised US$79,545 with 1,408 backers and 10 days to go, meeting its second stretch goal at US$75,000 to replicate and localize the original theatrical pamphlet.
Anime Limited describes the story:
Shinko, is a third grade elementary school student with a magically active imagination. She spends a lot of her time listening to her grandfather's history lessons, imagining what her town was like 1,000 years earlier. One day, a sad and sombre girl called Kiiko transfers to Shinko's school from Tokyo. A strong friendship soon grows between the two girls as Shinko helps Kiiko come out of her shell and deal with her loss - all thanks to their adventures, both imagined and real.
The film opened in Japan in 2009 and premiered in the U.S. in 2010. It won the Audience Award for the Best Animated Feature for adults at Belgium's Brussels Animation Film Festival, Best Animated Feature Film at Montreal's Fantasia Festival, and the Excellence Prize at the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards.
