The Umi ga Hashiru Endroll manga began in 2020 through the magazine for Akita Shoten and wrapped up late last year, but not before Dark Horse Comics made its pickup of the property. The series was nominated for the 15th Manga Taishou Award in 2022 and for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2023. While it doesn’t have an English edition, Milky Way Editions releases it in Spanish, and Akata brings out a French edition.
Now, an anime feature film has been announced for it with plans for a 2027 debut in Japan. The project has Taichi Ishidate directing it with Kyoto Animation on the production.
More details will come later, but a promo and visual were released below.
Tarachine’s first published work was in 2013 with some doujinshi for Kuroko’s Basketball and they followed that up with the 2014 works Itai Ero and Yankee Uke alongside Bokorarer Uke.
© たらちねジョン（秋田書店）／海が走るエンドロール製作委員会
Plot Concept: “It’s not the movies you like…you like watching the people watching the movies.”
Just what are you going to do with the rest of your life? It’s the question you’ll always have to answer, no matter your age. Umiko Chino is a 65 year-old retired woman in mourning for her late husband. Remembering how they used to watch films together, Umiko goes to the movie theater for the first time in years, where she meets Kai, an attractive, ambiguous young man who studies filmmaking at a nearby art school.
They would seem to have nothing in common, except for this—both of them sometimes like to look more at the way the audience reacts to a movie than the movie itself. Kai believes Umiko has the same deep desire he possesses to experience how people respond to something they made… and challenges her to stake the rest of her life discovering that thrill.
Soon Umiko surprises herself by enrolling in the same film school as Kai. But sailing into this new sea, she’s suddenly inside the currents of her fellow students’ lives, a much younger generation that she struggles to understand, driven by their own passions and their own relationships. Who’s really experienced at life, and is it old age or observation that brings wisdom? And does what you’re looking for change when you look with your eyes instead of through a camera lens…?
Chris Beveridge
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