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Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry Film Opens in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Southeast Asian film distributor Odex revealed on Monday that it will screen the Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry anime film in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. It did not indicate a debut date for the film.
The film will open in Japan on May 6. Hiro Mashima drew 193 pages of storyboard for the film (pictured below), and is also serving as executive producer. Mashima also drew rough sketches for the characters and the key visuals for the film, which feature Natsu half transformed into a dragon.
The tagline in the visual reads "That power … is it hope or destruction…?"
The cast includes:
Aya Hirano as Lucy Heartfilia
Rie Kugimiya as Happy
Yūichi Nakamura as Gray Fullbuster
Sayaka Ōhara as Erza Scarlet
Satomi Satou as Wendy
Yui Horie as Charles
Makoto Furukawa as King Animus, the king of Stella kingdom.
Aoi Yūki as Sonya, an aide to King Animus
Jirō Saitō as Zash Caine, the minister of state of Stella Kingdom
Tatsuma Minamikawa (episode director for Aldnoah.Zero, Attack on Titan, Haganai NEXT) is directing the film at A-1 Pictures. Shoji Yonemura is returning from the previous two television anime series to write the script, Yuuko Yamada (chief animation director for Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East, Persona 3 the Movie #3 Falling Down) is the character designer and chief animation director, and Yasuharu Takanashi is returning from the previous anime series and Fairy Tail Zero to compose the music. GAGA is distributing the film.
Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine had announced in May 2015 that Fairy Tail was getting a second anime film.
The manga follows the adventures of world's most notorious mage guild, Fairy Tail. The manga already inspired two television anime, several previous original video anime projects, and spinoff manga. The franchise's first anime film, Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess, opened in Japan on August 18, 2012.
The television anime series also revealed in March 2016 that a new project is in the works.
The original manga series is available throughout Southeast Asia in multiple languages, published by different publishers in each country. Animax Asia broadcasts the Fairy Tail anime throughout multiple Southeast Asian territories.
[Via AnimePH]
