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Toei Confirms Ojamajo Doremi Team's Majo Minarai o Sagashite Magical Girl Anime Film
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Toei Animation confirmed during its "Ojamajo Doremi 20th Anniversary Magical Stage" event at AnimeJapan 2019 on Saturday that the film that it teased earlier is an all-new film titled Majo Minarai o Sagashite (Searching for Witch Apprentices). The film will be handled by main staff members from the Ojamajo Doremi anime. The film is slated to open in Japan in 2020. The announcement does not specifically state that the work is a Doremi project, but also does not specifically state that the project is an original film.
Junichi Satō (Sailor Moon, Aria, Princess Tutu), the director of the original Ojamajo Doremi anime, is directing the film alongside Yū Kamatani (Precure franchise episode director) at Toei Animation. Midori Kuriyama (episode scriptwriter for Lovely Complex, Heartcatch Precure!) and Yoshihiko Umakoshi (Boys Over Flowers, Mushi-Shi) are also returning from Ojamajo Doremi as scriptwriter and character designer, respectively, and Umakoshi is also credited as chief animation director. Shōko Nakamura (Doukyusei -Classmates-) is also credited as animation director for the film, and Hiromi Seki is leading her team as producer.
The Ojamajo Doremi anime is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
The first Ojamajo Doremi anime series originally premiered in Japan in 1999, and 4Kids began broadcasting a heavily edited version of the series in the United States in 2005 under the title Magical DoReMi.
Source: "Ojamajo Doremi 20th Anniversary Magical Stage" event at AnimeJapan 20199
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