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1st Haikara-san ga Tōru Anime Film Reveals Visual, Theme Song

The official website for the anime Benio in the anime, will perform the film's theme song "Yume no Hate made" (Until the End of the Dream).

Toki no Tabibito -Time Stranger-) is composing and writing the lyrics for the theme song. The song's CD will ship on November 8.

The first film, titled Haikara-san ga Tōru Kōhen - Tokyo Dai Roman. While both films were previously slated to open this year, the second film is now slated to open in 2018.

Nippon Animation is in charge of animation production.

Hayami (Mobile Suit Gundam 00's Setsuna F Seiei, Free!'s Rin Matsuoka) is playing her fiancé, Shinobu Ijūin.

The story is set in Tokyo in the Taishō era (1912-1926). The story follows Benio "Haikara-san" Hanamura, who lost her mother when she was very young and has been raised by her father, a high-ranking official in the Japanese army. As a result, she has grown into a tomboy -- contrary to traditional Japanese notions of femininity, she studies kendo, drinks sake, dresses in often outlandish-looking Western fashions instead of the traditional kimono, and is not as interested in housework as she is in literature. She also rejects the idea of arranged marriages and believes in a woman's right to a career and to marry for love.

Haikara-san's best friends are the beautiful Tamaki, who is much more feminine than Haikara-san but equally interested in women's rights, and Ranmaru, a young man who was raised to play female roles in the kabuki theater and as a result has acquired very effeminate mannerisms. Haikara-san's betrothed is Shinobu Ijūin, a second lieutenant in the army.

Yamato launched the manga in perform a musical adaptation of the manga in October.

The manga series previously inspired a 42-episode television anime that aired from 1978 to 1979 from Nippon Animation, a live-action film, a live-action television series, and two live-action television specials.

Yamato's Be Love magazine in 2009, and is currently serializing it. Kodansha published the manga's 15th compiled book volume on May 12.

Source: Comic Natalie