Natsuko Yokosawa, the cast of the Break of Dawn anime film - News
The official website for Tetsuya Imai's Break of Dawn (Bokura no Yoake) manga anime film announced Friday that comedian Natsuko Yokosawa will play Mifuyu Kishi, Shingo's mother, for her first role in a theatrical anime. Mifuyu lives in the same residential complex as the main character Yuma.
Yokosawa also acts as the film's supporting ambassador.
The film will premiere on September 12 at Tokyo's TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills to commemorate the completion of the film. Cast members will be in attendance, including Hana Sugisaki (Yūma), Aoi Yūki (Nanako), Romi Park (The February Dawn) and Yokosawa. Director Tomoyuki Kurokawa and the initials Daichi Miura will also participate.
The film will be released on October 21st.
Cast members include:
Hana Sugisaki as Yuma Sawatari
Aoi Yuki as Nanako
Natsumi Fujiwara as Shingo Kishi
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Ginnosuke Tadokoro
Inori Minase as Kaori Kawai
Haruka Tomatsu as Wako Kishi
Romi Park as The Dawn of February
Kana Hanazawa as Haruka Sawatari
Yoshimasa Hosoya as Ryō Sawatari
Kenjiro Tsuda as Yoshitatsu Kawai
Kurokawa (Dragonar Academy, Psychic Detective Yakumo) will direct the anime at Zero-G. Dai Sato (screenplay supervisor of Eureka Seven, 10 episodes of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, three episodes of Cowboy Bebop) is writing the screenplay, and Pomodorosa (Listeners, Deca-Dence) is the character designer and concept designer of the original animation. Takahiko Yoshida (Cells at Work!, Big Windup!) Is the animation character designer and chief animation director, and Masaru Yokoyama (2019-2021 Fruits Basket, Your Lie in April, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans) composes the music. GAGA and Avex Pictures will distribute the film.
Miura will perform the theme song of the film “Itsushika” (Before You Know It).
The story of the "juvenile science fiction" manga is set in the near future year 2049, where humanity has become aware for a number of years that the Earth will have an inevitable collision with a large-scale comet. The manga's story focuses on Yuma, a boy obsessed with space, robots, and the impending collision. He has an encounter with an extraterrestrial being, which he discovers is connected to the coming comet.
Imai (Alice & Zouroku) launched the manga in Kodansha's Afternoon magazine in January 2011. Kodansha has published two volumes of compiled books for the manga. Kodansha USA Publishing has licensed the manga for the English version.
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