The upcoming A New Dawn anime film has gotten a main trailer that shows off yet more of its densely detailed and attractive visual style, along with the newly announced imase theme song “Aoba.”
The cast’s voices can also be heard in the new trailer.
A New Dawn (Hanarokusho ga Akeru Hi ni) will debut on March 6, following a delay from its previous 2025 release window. The official premise reads:
The Obinata Fireworks Shop factory is getting prepared for an administrative action for confiscation tomorrow. It has been six years since Keitaro has been holed up in a closed-down factory creating fireworks by himself, chasing after an illusion of his father who vanished. It is a story about three young people who overcome the extreme weather conditions, disasters and environmental problems imposed on them and establish their own identities.
The French-Japanese co-production is the feature director debut of Yoshitoshi Shinomiya, whose previous credits include Makoto Shinkai‘s The Garden of Words (poster illustrator) and Your Name (recollection scene key animator and unit director) to Sunao Katabuchi‘s In This Corner of the World (watercolor painter et al.) and Takayuki Hirao‘s Pompo the Cinephile (art board artist). Shinomiya has directed short-form works like Tokino Kousa and the Chiaki Mayumura music video “Boukentai ~Heroes of the old forest~.”
A New Dawn was a part of the 77th Cannes Film Festival’s 2024 Annecy Animation Showcase. It was recently announced that it will be at the 76th Berlin International Film Festival as one of the Competition films.
Staff
• Director, scriptwriter, and creator: Yoshitoshi Shinomiya
• Character designer: Minakata Laboratory’s Utsushita (Tengoku Daimakyo)
• Character designer: Yoshitoshi Shinomiya
• Animation director: Yoshitoshi Shinomiya
• Animation director: Shohei Hamaguchi
• Color designer: Yoshitoshi Shinomiya
• Color designer: Aiko Mizuno (Undead Unluck: Winter Arc)
• Color designer: Tomoko Saito (K)
• Color designer: Nanako Okazaki (Brave Bang Bravern!)
• Background art director: Yoshitoshi Shinomiya
• Background art director: Akiko Majima (Your Name co-background art director)
• Compositing director: Anna Tomizaki (Beastars Final Season)
• Special effects footage: SUKIMAKI ANIMATION
• Stop motion footage: Victor Haegelin
• Music composer: Shuta Hasunuma
• Animation producer: Tsutomu Fujio (The House of the Lost on the Cape, Ping Pong The Animation)
• Production: Asmik Ace, Studio Outrigger, and Miyu Productions
• Distribution: Asmik Ace
Cast
• Riku Hagiwara as Keitaro Obinata
• Kotone Furukawa as Kaoru
• Miyu Irino as Sentaro Obinata
• Takashi Okabe as Eitaro Obinata
Source: Asmik Ace YouTube channel
