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Crunchyroll announced on Wednesday that it will stream The Concierge and the anime for a one-day engagement in North America, with The Concierge premiering on September 11 and Trapezoid premiering on September 18.
Crunchyroll will also release The Concierge in Italy on September 23, Germany on September 24, Australia on September 26, and Spain on September 27. Crunchyroll will release Trapezoid in France on September 27, November 19, and Germany on November 26.
Crunchyroll describes The Concierge:
Akino is a guide trainee at the Hokkyoku Department Store, a specialty department store that caters exclusively to animals. Under the supervision of the floor manager and senior guide, Akino runs around to meet the wishes of customers with countless needs and problems on her way to becoming a full-fledged guide.
The film opens in Japan in October 2022.
Yoshimi Itazu (“Pigtails,” Welcome to the Ballroom, main animation on Popin Q) makes his feature anime film directorial debut, and Satomi Ooshima (Hataraki Man, Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko, Raven of the Inner Palace) writes the script. Aniplex is distributing. Electronic music producer Tofubeats is composing the music. Chiyo Morita (animation director of the Running with the Wind episodes) is serving as character designer and chief animation director. Production I.G. produces the film. Singer-songwriter Myuk performs the film’s theme song “Gift.”
Nishimura launched the manga in Shogakukan's Big Comic Zōkan magazine in November 2016 and ended it with two volumes in 2020. The manga won the Excellence Award at the Ministry of Culture's 25th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2022.
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Crunchyroll describes the trapezoid:
Driven by an unwavering passion to become an idol, Yu Azuma, a young, ambitious freshman at Joshu East High School, embarks on a journey to form an idol group. To make her dream come true, she recruits female students from four high schools in her area (located in the north, east, south, and west) and soon finds her group members.
Joining Yu are Ranko Kashima, a stylish second-year student at Holy Teneritas Southern Girls' Academy, with a distinctive curly hairstyle and a great admiration for Ochofujin (“Madame Butterfly”); Kurumi Taiga, a student at West Tech Vocational High School, who wears cute, oversized, long-sleeved jackets and dreams of winning a robot-building competition; and Mika Kamei, a student also from Joshu North High School, known for being a kind girl and devoted to volunteering.
With the help of Yu's “collaborator” and confidant Shinji Kudo, these four young women set out to become stars. But the journey is filled with unexpected challenges, demanding demands, setbacks and pressures that threaten to destroy everything Yu has worked so hard to build.
The anime film adaptation of Kazumi Takayama's trapezoid novel premiered in Japan on May 10.
Asaki Yuikawa plays the main character Yū Higashi in the film. Hina Yomiya voices the character Kurumi Taiga “Western Star”. Reina Ueda voices the “Southern Star” Ranko Katori. Haruka Aikawa voices Mika Kamei “Northern Star” and is one of Yū Higashi's former elementary school classmates. The film also stars JO1 idol group member Shōya Kimata as Shinji Kudō and Utchan Nanchan's comedy duo Teruyoshi Uchimura as Shūichi Itami.
Masahiro Shinohara (Blend S episode director, Is the order a rabbit?) directs the film at CloverWorks, and Koji Masunari (storyboard for Oshi no Ko, TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You) supervises the film. Yuuko Kakihara (The Apothecary Diaries, Buddy Daddies) wrote the script, Rio (Sorcerous Stabber Orphen-Chaos in Urbanrama-) designed the characters, and Masaru Yokoyama (Farewell, My Dear Cramer: The Movie, Fruits Basket-prelude-, Horimiya) composed the music. Aniplex distributed the film.
Source: Press release
