XFLAG have announced a new original anime entitled Yakusoku no Nanaya Matsuri, which will be released on July 7 via YouTube. Although they have not specified the format of this anime, by its description it seems that they will be a movie. In the promotional image it can be read: "Everyone has someone they want to meet with".
The anime centers on Shoma Mihara, a first-year high school student. Shoma hasn't seen his good friend Atsushi in 3.5 years, ever since they lost contact with each other after elementary school. One day, Atsushi gets in contact with Shoma to invite him to a rare festival, so they can meet up and talk. Shoma goes to the "Tanabata Seven Night Festival" deep in the mountains, but Atsushi is not there. Instead, a girl named Shiori who also has a person she wants to meet is there. The festival's program manager Kanna suggests that he stay until the festival is over, and so Shoma and Shiori help Kanna prepare for the festival. Shoma and Shiori then get wrapped up in some strange events happening in the town.
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Sōma Saitō as Shoma Mihara
Nozomi Yamamoto as Shiori Senozawa
Tomomi Mineuchi as Kanna
Daiki Yamashita as Atsushi Fujii
Sayaka Senbongi as Kaori Senozawa
Ayaka Fukuhara as Kogetsuhime
Kazuya Murata (A.I.C.O. -Incarnation-, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos, KADO - The Right Answer) is directing the anime, and XFLAG Studio is credited with both the script and the production, alongside animation studio Yokohama Animation Lab. Senbon Umishima (She and Her Cat -Everything Flows-, Recovery of an MMO Junkie) is adapting Majiro's (The Thousand Noble Musketeers, Kabukibu!, Barakamon) original character designs for animation, and Taro Iwashiro (The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet , A.I.C.O. -Incarnation-) is composing the music.
Other staff members include:
Monster Design: Hiroya Iijima
3D Director: Ryūsei Nakajima (Tri-Slash)
Director of Photography: Yuma Yamaguchi (Raretrick)
Editing: Kumiko Sakamoto (Jay Film)
Art Director: Hirotsugu Kakoi (Ramecahirim)
Color Design: Makiko Kojima (Studio Road)
Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
Planning Producer: Nao Hirasawa (ARCH)
Producer: Jonathan Kazushi Maeno
Animation Producers: Yuuma Oogami, Naomi Ishiyama
Anri Kumaki is performing the theme song "Awai."
Learn more about the anime on their official website
