The official website for the musical anime film of Shinji Ishii‘s Toritsukare Otoko (Obsessed Man) novel began streaming a new visual and trailer for the film on Wednesday. The trailer announces more cast members for the film. It also previews the film’s musical song number “Fanfare ~Koi ni Ukarete~” (Fanfare ~Giddy in Love~) by main actors Masaya Sano and Moka Kamishiraishi as their respective characters, as well as the original version of the “Fanfare” song that Awesome City Club created specifically as the film’s theme song.
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The new cast members include:
Ae! group member Masaya Sano plays Giuseppe. Moka Kamishiraishi plays Pechka.
Sano also sings the songs in the film with Kamishiraishi. Awesome City Club member atagi is contributing to a film’s soundtrack for the first time with five songs in Toritsukare Otoko and part of its background music.
Wataru Takahashi (Crayon Shin-chan 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021 films) is directing the film at Shinei Animation, with a script by Naoyuki Miura (Fujoshi, Ukkari Gay ni Kokuru.). Masatsugu Arakawa (Windy Tales, Medabots Spirit) is designing the characters. Bandai Namco Filmworks is distributing.
The film will open in Japan on November 7.
Ishii released the novel in 2001. The novel centers on Giuseppe, a man known in his town as the “Obsessed Man,” due to his tendency to be obsessed about a particular thing for short amounts of time, during which he pays no heed to anything else. One day, he sees a balloon seller named Pechka, and he falls in love at first sight. Though Giuseppe tries to get close to Pechka, the sadness that Pechka holds in her heart keeps him at a distance. Giuseppe enlists the aid of his mosue friend Cielo, as he uses the things he was previously obsessed about to slowly help Pechka.
Sources: Toritsukare Otoko film’s website, Comic Natalie