The recent Mari Okada anime film Alice to Therese no Maboroshi Koujou (Alice and Therese’s Illusion Factory) will arrive on Netflix on January 15, 2024 under the title of Maboroshi. An English-subtitled trailer has been released:
Netflix describes the romance drama’s plot as:
Fourteen-year-old Masamune lives in a town where the flow of time has stopped after an explosion at a steel factory seals off all avenues of escape. In hopes that everything will someday return to normal, the town makes a rule that nothing must be changed, and Masamune spends his days in depression. One day, his intriguing and enigmatic classmate Mutsumi leads him into a blast furnace at the steel factory. There, he finds Itsumi, a girl who cannot speak and acts like a wild wolf. Masamune’s encounter with these two girls begins eroding the balance of the world. What future awaits the unstoppable urge to fall in love?
Maboroshi Koujou debuted in Japanese cinemas on September 15 of this year. The movie is Okada’s (Anohana scriptwriter, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans series composer) second directorial feature, the first being 2018’s P.A.Works-produced fantasy film Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms. MAPPA produced the movie.
Staff
• Assistant director: Tadashi Hiramatsu (Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms core director, Jujutsu Kaisen Season 1 character designer)
• Character designer and chief animation director: Yuriko Ishii (Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms)
• Chief unit director: Seimei Kidokoro (Fireworks assistant director)
• Art director: Kazuki Higashiji (Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms)
• Color designer: Tomoko Washida (Dorohedoro)
• Compositing director: Yuusuke Tannawa (Inuyashiki, Banana Fish)
• Music composer: Masaru Yokoyama (Horimiya)
Cast
• Junya Enoki as Masamune Kikuiri
• Reina Ueda as Mutsumi Sagami
• Misaki Kuno as Itsumi
Source: Netflix Anime YouTube channel
