{"id":140605,"date":"2025-11-25T02:41:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=140605"},"modified":"2025-11-25T02:42:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:42:04","slug":"whoever-steals-this-book-releases-mifuyu-character-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/11\/25\/whoever-steals-this-book-releases-mifuyu-character-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoever Steals This Book Releases Mifuyu Character Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The upcoming<em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/10\/15\/whoever-steals-this-book-reveals-main-trailer-and-visual-lead-cast\/\">Whoever Steals This Book<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;(<em>Kono Hon o Nusumu Mono wa<\/em>) anime film has received a character trailer for Mifuyu, one of the leads.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u6620\u753b\u300e\u3053\u306e\u672c\u3092\u76d7\u3080\u8005\u306f\u300f\u30ad\u30e3\u30e9\u30af\u30bf\u30fcPV\u7b2c1\u5f3e\uff1a\u5fa1\u5009\u6df1\u51ac\uff08CV.\u7247\u5ca1 \u51dc\uff09#\u3053\u306e\u672c\u3092\u76d7\u3080\u8005\u306f #\u3053\u306e\u306c\u3059 #\u7247\u5ca1\u51dc\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oAiStYhRC1w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Whoever Steals This Book<\/em> is set to premiere on December 26, 2025 JST, after being previously slated for a 2026 release. It&#8217;s based on the KADOKAWA-published book from <strong>Nowaki Fukamidori<\/strong>, in which the book-disliking high school girl Mifuyu tries to save her town after a theft activates a curse that plunges the place into the world of fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The <em>Whoever Steals This Book&nbsp;<\/em>book was first released in 2020 and was nominated at the 2021 Honya Taisho: Booksellers\u2019 Award.&nbsp;Yen Press, which has also licensed the manga adaptation by <b>Kakeru Sora<\/b>, describes the premise as such:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><i>Mifuyu is a high school student living with a large collection of books left by her great-grandfather\u2014the vast library known as Mikura Hall. Although her father is the current caretaker, Mifuyu herself doesn\u2019t share her family\u2019s passion for literature.\u202f But when several books are stolen from the library, triggering an ancient curse, the town is transformed according to the stories within them\u2014and the only way to put things right is for Mifuyu to catch the thief. With the help of a mysterious girl named Mashiro, Mifuyu sets out on an adventure through the different stories!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;font-size: 12pt\">Staff<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Director:\u00a0<strong>Daiki Fukuoka<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope\u2019s Peak High School<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Yuki Yuna Is a Hero\u00a0<\/em>Season 2)<br \/>\u2022 Storyboard artist and unit director: Daiki Fukuoka<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Story composer and scriptwriter: <strong>Yasuhiro Nakanishi<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>A Couple of Cuckoos<\/em> series composer)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Character designer and animation director:\u00a0<strong>Keiko Kurosawa<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Rumble Garanndoll<\/em>)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Music composer:\u00a0<strong>Michiru Oshima<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Anne Shirley<\/em>)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Animation producer:\u00a0<strong>Yuji Higa<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Kino\u2019s Journey -the Beautiful World- the Animated Series<\/em>\u00a0production producer,\u00a0<em>Fate\/Grand Carnival<\/em>)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Animation production:\u00a0<strong>Kagome Company<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Cast<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022\u00a0<strong>Rin Kata<span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">oka<\/span><\/strong> as Mifuyu Mikura<strong><br \/><\/strong>\u2022<strong> Sora Tamaki<\/strong> as Mashiro<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> KADOKAWAanime YouTube channel (via <a href=\"https:\/\/natalie.mu\/comic\/news\/649484\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comic Natalie<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming&nbsp;Whoever Steals This Book&nbsp;(Kono Hon o Nusumu Mono wa) anime film has received a character trailer for Mifuyu, one of the leads. Whoever Steals This Book is set to premiere on December 26, 2025 JST, after being previously slated for a 2026 release. It&#8217;s based on the KADOKAWA-published book from Nowaki Fukamidori, in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":140608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,1625,12159,1632,11424],"class_list":["post-140605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-adaptation","tag-kadaokwa","tag-novel","tag-whoever-steals-this-book"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Whoever-Steals-This-Book-Mifuyu-character-PV-screenshot.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-AzP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140611,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140605\/revisions\/140611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}