GKIDS announced that it has acquired the North American distribution rights to Shoji Kawamori’s Labyrinth anime film. The film will be released in North American theaters for two nights on May 10, 2026 and May 11, 2026, and will screen in Japanese with English subtitles and English-dubbed.
Kawamori served as director the anime film (known in Japanese as Meikyu no Shiori), with Risa Ebata (AKB0048 next stage, Macross F co-character designer) as character designer and Taichi Hashimoto (Revisions co-series composer, Listeners co-series draft writer) as scriptwriter. Sanzigen is handling the animation production for the film.
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The film’s main voice cast stars Atarashii Gakko! member SUZUKA as Shiori Maezawa and SHIORI, timelesz member Takuto Teranishi as Suguru Kagami, and Taizo Harada as Komori.
Labyrinth premiered in Japan on January 1, 2026. It was previously screened at the Scotland Loves Animation event in November 2025 and had a fan screening in Malaysia in December 2025.
Distributor Abnormal Studios announced that it would distribute the film to Southeast Asian and Australasian locations such as Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Australia, and New Zealand in 2026.
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GKIDS describes the main premise of Labyrinth as:
Shiori is a typical high school student who dreams of online stardom, but struggles to capture attention. After an embarrassing video of her goes viral, she gets trapped in her smartphone and replaced by a charismatic alter ego. As the doppelganger charms the internet and devises a nefarious plot to replace mankind with brainrot, Shiori must partner with other online outcasts to stop her digital counterpart and reclaim her life in the real world.
Sources: GKIDS Official Twitter, GKIDS Official Website, Variety
