{"id":70739,"date":"2023-10-02T23:44:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T06:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=70739"},"modified":"2023-10-03T23:38:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T06:38:02","slug":"malaysia-to-screen-the-concierge-anime-movie-starting-october-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/10\/02\/malaysia-to-screen-the-concierge-anime-movie-starting-october-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia to Screen The Concierge Anime Movie Starting October 26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Malaysia’s Golden Screen Cinemas will begin screening the upcoming anime movie The Concierge<\/em> on October 26, less than a week after the film’s October 20 Japanese premiere.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Concierge<\/em>, or The Concierge at Hokkyoku Department Store<\/em>, is based on the Shogakukan-published manga by Tsuchika Nishimura<\/strong>, which was a recipient of the Japan Media Arts Festival\u2019s 25th Manga Division Excellence Award. The Japan Media Arts Festival describes the manga as:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cAll kinds of animals, including ones that are a bit unfamiliar, visit the department store where I work.\u201d Akino is a new concierge at the Hokkyoku Department Store, where all customers are animals. This is a series of short stories, portraying Akino\u2019s growth as she learns about the mentality of being a concierge through her job. At this unusual department store with human clerks and animal customers, extinct animals come to consult with the concierges about items they are looking for or problems they have. As Akino tactfully solves the problems of the customers with a smile, her sincerity gradually softens difficult customers.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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Image source: GSCMOVIES Facebook page<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The movie is produced by Production I.G <\/strong>with Yoshimi Itazu<\/strong> (<\/span>Welcome to the Ballroom<\/em>) as director,<\/span> <\/span>Satomi Ooshima<\/strong> (<\/span>Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko<\/em>,<\/span> Raven of the Inner Palace<\/em> series composer) as scriptwriter, and <\/span>Chie Morita<\/strong> (<\/span>Run With The End<\/em> Ep 17, 21, and 23 co-animation director) as character designer and chief animation director. Other staff include:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Concept color designer: Izumi Hirose<\/strong> (Tengoku Daimakyou<\/em> color designer)<\/span>
\u2022 Art director: Studio Fuuga\u2019s Ichirou Tatsuta<\/strong> (Haikyu!!<\/em>)<\/span>
\u2022 Compositing director: Kouji Tanaka<\/strong> (The Deer King<\/em>)<\/span>
\u2022 Music composer: tofubeats<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the cast includes:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Natsumi Kawaida <\/strong>as Akino<\/span>
\u2022 Takeo Ootsuka<\/strong> as Elulu<\/span>
\u2022 Nobuo Tobita<\/strong> as Todo<\/span>
\u2022 Megumi Han<\/strong> as Mori<\/span>
\u2022 Natsumi Fujiwara<\/strong> as Iwase<\/span>
\u2022 Eiji Yoshitomi<\/strong> as Maruki<\/span>
\u2022 Jun Fukuyama<\/strong> as the ma\u00eetre d\u2019h\u00f4tel<\/span>
\u2022 Yuuichi Nakamura<\/strong> as Tokiwa<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source:<\/strong> GSCMOVIES Facebook page<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malaysia’s Golden Screen Cinemas will begin screening the upcoming anime movie The Concierge on October 26, less than a week after the film’s October 20 Japanese premiere. The Concierge, or The Concierge at Hokkyoku Department Store, is based on the Shogakukan-published manga by Tsuchika Nishimura, which was a recipient of the Japan Media Arts Festival\u2019s 25th Manga […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":60188,"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":[14,1625,97,2088,122,1082],"class_list":["post-70739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-adaptation","tag-anime-movie","tag-golden-screen-cinemas","tag-manga","tag-production-ig"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/theconciergeathokkyokudepartmentstore_visual-1-e1682397344475.jpg?fit=849%2C477&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-ioX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70739"}],"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=70739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70794,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70739\/revisions\/70794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}