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Neofilms Streams Chinese-Subtitled Trailer for Saekano Film
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Hong Kong film distributor Neofilms began streaming a Chinese-subtitled trailer on Wednesday for open the film in Hong Kong on June 18.
The film earned a cumulative total of 667,463,980 yen ($6.14 million).
Aniplex distributed the film.
The returning cast included:
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Tomoya Aki
- Megumi Katō
- Saori Ōnishi as Eriri Spencer Sawamura
- Utaha Kasumigaoka
- Sayuri Yahagi as Michiru Hyōdō
- Chinatsu Akasaki as Izumi Hashima
- Tetsuya Kakihara as Iori Hashima
The film is not a compilation film of the previous anime, but is a new work.
Maruto's original light novel series with illustrations by dōjin game after her. However, he finds out a month later that the girl is in fact his classmate, and he doesn't know her name. He learns that the girl — named Megumi — actually is hardly noticed by others. Tomoya also has no artistic ability or writing skills, so he asks ace of the art club Eriri Spencer Sawamura to provide the art, as well as the honor student Utaha Kasumigaoka to write the scenario. Can they produce a decent game for Comic Market?
The novels inspired an anime adaptation titled Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend that premiered in January 2015 in Japan on Amazon Prime Video.
