Kyoto Animation's anticipated anime movie adaptation of acclaimed manga A Silent Voice hits Japanese theaters on September 17th. Leading into next weekend's opening, KyoAni has published their trailer and ads for the feature.

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Cast includes

Shoyo Ishida: Mayu Irino

Shoko Nishimiya: Saori Hayami

Yuzuru Nishimiya: Aoi Yūki (My Hero Academia's Tsuyu Asui)

Tomohiro Nagatsu: Kenshō Ono (Bungo Stray Dogs' Ryūnosuke Akutagawa)

Naoka Ueno: Yuki Kaneko (Tamako Market's Midori Tokiwa)

Miyoko Sahara: Yui Ishikawa (Attack on Titan's Mikasa Ackerman)

Miki Kawai: Megumi Han (Hunter x Hunter's Gon)

Satoshi Mashiba: Toshiyuki Toyonaga (Bungo Stray Dogs' Jun'ichirō Tanizaki)

Shoyo Ishida (elementary school-age): Mayu Matsuoka

Staff includes:

Original work: A Silent Voice by Yoshitoki Oima (published in Weekly Shonen Magazine by Kodansha)

Director: Naoko Yamada

Screenplay: Reiko Yoshida

Character design: Futoshi Nishiya

Animation production: Kyoto Animation

Production: A Silvent Voice Production Committee

Distributor: Shochiku





Singer/song writer aik performs the theme song "Ai wo Shita no wa."

An English language version of A Silent Voice is released in print by Kodanasha and distributed digitally by Crunchyroll, who describes the story as follows:

"I wish we had never met. I wish we could meet once again. A boy who can hear, Shoya Ishida, and a transfer student who can’t, Shoko Nishimiya. One fateful day, the two meet, and Shoya leads the class in bullying Shoko. But before long, the class shifts its target from Shoko to Shoya. Years later, Shoya feels strongly that he must see Shoko once again."

Author Yoshitoki Oima will be drawing an original manga episode for a Special Book offered to movie goers at participating theaters.

Theaters will also be offering charms, pens and notepads, mini towels and jigsaw puzzles.

popcorn bags

Shot celebrating 40,000 Twitter followers

Koe no Katachi movie novelization volume 1 cover art: pic.twitter.com/3WunmqSTqo — ultimatemegax (@ultimatemegax) September 9, 2016

Some sites shared the new Koe no Katachi teaser screens in high res, nice. https://t.co/089hH4m7s5 pic.twitter.com/t1TWxfqj3C — kViN (@Yuyucow) September 3, 2016

And the cover art for the official manga fanbook coming out one day before the movie. pic.twitter.com/yBqvPned09 — kViN (@Yuyucow) September 7, 2016



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