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Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom Anime Film Opens in Taiwan on November 1
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
MediaLink began streaming an English- and Chinese-subtitled trailer on Monday for Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom (Gekijō-ban Overlord Sei Ōkoku-hen), the new film project for the Overlord anime. The trailer reveals that the film will open in Taiwan on November 1, with both regular and IMAX screenings.
The film ranked at #2 in its opening weekend. The film sold 198,000 tickets and earned 317,859,004 yen (about US$2.19 million).
If the earlier IMAX screenings are included, the film has sold a total of 270,000 tickets and earned a cumulative total of 457 million yen (about US$3.15 million).
Kadokawa describes the film's story:
Under the leadership of Sacred Queen Calca, the Roebel Sacred Kingdom enjoyed an era of peace, protected behind their great walls. However, that peace was easily destroyed by the sudden appearance of the Demon Emperor Jaldabaoth and the attack of the Demi-Human Alliance. Though the grandmaster of Roebel Sacred Kingdom's Sacred Paladin Order, Remedios, and the high priestess, Kelart, gathered their forces to retaliate, they could not overcome the overwhelming difference in Jaldabaoth's power, and their kingdom is now on the verge of collapse. Remedios travels with her order and her subordinate, Neia, to a certain kingdom in hopes of gaining power to counter Jaldabaoth. The name of that kingdom is Sorcerer Kingdom Ains Ooal Gown. It is a grotesque nation ruled by an undead and despised by those of the Sacred Kingdom—
The four new cast members for the film include:
- Yoshino Aoyama as Neia Baraja
- Hitomi Nabatame as Remedios Custodio
- Saori Hayami as Calca Bessarez
- Haruka Tomatsu as Kelart Custodio
Naoyuki Itou returned to direct the film at Madhouse, and is also credited as scriptwriter and for composition. Yukie Sugawara returned for the film and is credited for script collaboration. Satoshi Tasaki also returned as character designer and chief animation director. Fumiyuki Go returned as the sound director at Bit Grooove Promotion. Shūji Katayama of Team-MAX returned to compose the music at Kadokawa. Kadokawa Animation is distributing the film.
