The first trailer for upcoming indie anime Tadaima o Kaesu Tabi was released last week on director Takashi Muramatsu‘s YouTube channel.
The anime is about a girl called Mana, who is voiced by VTuber Asano Ruri (Ruri is also a voice actor under the Crocodile agency). According to one of the texts in the trailer, she sets out on a journey to search for her memories.
Muramatsu (Aozora to Akizora, Omoide wo Hakobu Uta) says he has been working on Tadaima o Kaesu Tabi, including as animator, composer, and editor, for four years. A crowdfunding campaign on Motion Gallery was held to help fulfill three goals: screening the anime in Tokyo’s Shimokita Ekimae Cinema K2 mini-theater via Motion Gallery’s Short Film Biotope program, having life-sized cutouts of the VTuber cast members and postcards, and getting a theme song for the anime. It raised 446,500 yen (~US$2,888) out of its 100 thousand yen goal.
The schedule on the crowdfunding page lists a Winter 2024 release for the anime, which has a rough length of 45 minutes.
Aside from Ruri, the cast includes Neo Tanaka as Kai, VTuber Megu as Riri, Bellbell as man, Ei Mochizuki as father, Teiko Nanahara as mother, Rika Waku as grandmother, and Kenta Kusanagi as a civil servant.
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Source: Takashi Muramatsu YouTube channel