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Fuuto PI Anime Gets Film Opening on November 8
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Toei announced on Sunday that the FUUTO PI anime based on the Fūto Tantei manga is getting an anime film titled Fūto Tantei: Kamen Rider Skull no Shōzō (FUUTO PI: Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull) that will screen for a limited time in Japanese theaters starting on November 8. The film will tell the story of the beginning of Kamen Rider W.
Kenjirō Tsuda is joining the cast as Sōkichi Narumi.
The returning cast includes:
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Shōtarō Hidari
- Kōki Uchiyama as Phillip
- Akira Sekine as Tokime
- Mikako Komatsu as Akiko Narumi
- Makoto Furukawa as Ryū Terui
- Daisuke Ono as Yukiji Bandō
Yousuke Kabashima is returning to direct the film at Studio KAI, with Ayataka Tanemura again serving as assistant director. Toei Video will distribute the film. Other returning staff members include scriptwriter Tatsuto Higuchi, character designer and chief animation director Hidekazu Ebina, chief animation director Kiyoshi Komatsubara, and composers Kotaro Nakagawa and Shuhei Naruse. Hideaki Tsukada is again the executive producer, and Akira Onodera is again the supervisor. Main animators include: Kazuki Kimura, Ken Obata, Kenta Yokoya, and Shun Shibata.
The Fūto Tantei manga is a sequel project for the 2009 Kamen Rider W series. Riku Sanjō, a crucial writer for the original series, is in charge of the manga's scripts. Masaki Satou (Love Theory) is drawing the manga. The manga launched in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits magazine in August 2017.
Toei describes the manga:
FUUTO is under the protection of Shotaro and Philip,
But bizarre incidents continue to occur frequently on the far side of the city.
Tokime, a mysterious beauty, appears and a new evil casts its shadow over the windy city.
It's the beginning of a new battle for Kamen Rider W.
The FUUTO PI anime premiered in August 2022. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired. The anime project commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Kamen Rider franchise.
The manga also inspired a stage play adaptation that ran from December 2022 to January 2023.
The Kamen Rider W series aired from September 2009 to August 2010 as the 11th Kamen Rider show in Japan's Heisei era. The show starred Renn Kiriyama as Shotaro Hidari and Masaki Suda as his buddy Philip.
Sources: Toei Tokusatsu's YouTube channel, Kamen Rider Web
