GKIDS announced Thursday that it has acquired the North American rights to director Naoko Yamada's animated films A Silent Voice and Liz and the Blue Bird. The company will screen the film in theaters from December 15 to 16. GKIDS has streamed the dubbed and English-subtitled trailers for A Silent Voice:
English dub
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There are English subtitles
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The anime film A Silent Voice by Naoko Yamada and Kyoto Animation is based on Yoshitoki Ōima's manga of the same name. Eleven Arts previously held screenings of the film in January 2019 and October 2022. Eleven Arts Anime Studio originally screened the film in the United States in Japanese with English subtitles in October 2017 and with a dub English in February 2018.
The film earned 2.3 billion yen in Japan and was the 19th highest-grossing film released in Japan in 2016.
Kodansha USA published the manga in English and describes the manga:
Shoya is a bully. When Shoko, a deaf girl, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shoya and his friends push each other to come up with new ways to torture her. But the children's cruelty went too far. Shoko is forced to leave the school and Shoya ends up taking all the responsibility. Six years later, the two met again. Can Shoya redeem his past mistakes or is it too late?
The manga began as a one-shot published by Ōima in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shonen Magazine in 2011. She later turned it into a full story with the launch of the series in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine in 2013. The series ended in November 2014. Kodansha published seven compiled book volumes of the manga.
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Liz and the Blue Bird opened in Japan in April 2018 and grossed 53,573,900 yen (about $492,400) in its opening weekend. Eleven Arts screened the film in US theaters with English subtitles and an English dub that November.
Liz and the Blue Bird is an animated film from the Sound! The Euphonium franchise, based on Sound! by Ayano Takeda! Euphonium novel series. The film is based on Sound! Novel Euphonium ーKitauji Kōkō Suisōgakubu, Hanran no Dai Ni Gakushō: Kōhen (Sound! Euphonium-The Chaotic Second Movement of the Kitauji High School Band: Part 2).
The film focuses on flutist Nozomi Kasaki and oboist Mizore Yoroizuka, characters who are also the focus of Sound! First half of the anime Euphonium 2. In the film, both Nozomi and Mizore are in their final year of high school and Nozomi has rejoined the band. The band's new competition piece, Liz and the Blue Bird, features a flute and oboe duet that requires both Nozomi and Mizore to coordinate. But even though the two have been together since middle school, Mizore still feels uneasy at the thought of being apart from Nozomi again at the end of the year, which begins to affect not only her music but also the relationship. their.
Crunchyroll and Tubi TV are streaming the film.
GKIDS previously licensed Yamada's original anime short Garden of Remembrance and Yamada and Science SARU's feature film The Colors Inside.
Source: Press release
