Smartphone Game 'Project Sekai' to Release Anime Movie in January 2025

Advertising company CyberAgent announced on Monday an anime movie for the Project Sekai Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku smartphone game, titled Project Sekai Movie: Kowareta Sekai to Utaenai Miku (Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing), revealing the main cast, staff, a teaser trailer, and a key visual (pictured). The anime movie will have an original story and is scheduled to open in Japanese theaters on January 17, 2025.

Cast
Miku Hatsune: Original voice by Saki Fujita (Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan)
Rin Kagamine, Len Kagamine: Original voice by Asami Shimoda (The iDOLM@STER)
Luka Megurine: Original voice by Yuu Asakawa (Azumanga Daiou The Animation)
Meiko: Original voice by Meiko Haigou
Kaito: Original voice by Naoto Fuuga
Ichika Hoshino: Ruriko Noguchi (Itai no wa Iya nanode Bougyoryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu.)
Saki Tenma: Karin Isobe (Healer Girl)
Honami Mochizuki: Reina Ueda (Aikatsu Stars!)
Shiho Hinomori: Yuki Nakashima (BanG Dream! 2nd Season)
Minori Hanasato: Yui Ogura (Blue Archive the Animation)
Haruka Kiritani: Mayu Yoshioka (Wake Up, Girls!)
Airi Momoi: Ai Furihata (Love Live! Sunshine!!)
Shizuku Hinomori: Rina Honizumi (Lapis Re:LiGHTs)
Kohane Azusawa: Akina (Uma Musume: Pretty Derby Season 3)
An Shiraishi: Tomomi Jiena Sumi (Sentai Daishikkaku)
Akito Shinonome: Fumiya Imai (Given)
Touya Aoyagi: Kent Ito (“Oshi no Ko”)
Tsukasa Tenma: Daisuke Hirose (A3! Season Spring & Summer)
Emu Otori: Hina Kino (Shine Post)
Nene Kusanagi: Machico (Uma Musume: Pretty Derby)
Rui Kamishiro: Shunichi Toki (Paradox Live the Animation)
Kanade Yoisaki: Tomori Kusunoki (Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai)
Mafuyu Asahina: Rui Tanabe (Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan)
Ena Shinonome: Minori Suzuki (Macross Δ)
Mizuki Akiyama: Hinata Satou (Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight)

Staff
Director: Hiroyuki Hata (Lapis Re:LiGHTs)
Screenplay: Youko Yonaiyama (Uma Musume: Pretty Derby)
Character Design: Yuki Akiyama (Shiroi Suna no Aquatope)
Sub-character Design: Masatoshi Tsuji
Chief Animation Director: Yuki Akiyama (Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara), Masatoshi Tsuji (Summertime Render)
Prop Design: Hiromi Makino (Na Nare Hana Nare)
Art Director: Kurumi Suzuki (Kamisama ni Natta Hi)
Art Design: Yoshinori Shiozawa (Spy x Family Season 2)
Director of Photography: Kazuya Iwai (Wake Up, Girls! Seishun no Kage)
Color Design: Akemi Tejima (Princess Connect! Re:Dive)
CGI Director: Kyousuke Ogawa, Haruki Suzuki (Buddy Daddies)
Editing: Ayumu Takahashi (Mayonaka Punch)
Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa (Trapezium)
Sound Effects: Rei Ueno (Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song)
Sound Production: Magic Capsule
Music: Satoshi Houno (Maou-sama, Retry!)
Studio: P.A. Works
Distribution: Shochiku

Project Sekai: Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku, based on Crypton Future Media’s vocaloid software, is a smartphone rhythm game developed by Colorful Palette and published by Sega. It is a spin-off of Sega’s Hatsune Miku: Project Diva rhythm game series. The smartphone game was released in Japan for Android and iOS in September 2020, with the worldwide and other versions releasing in the following years.

Scooter Films produced a 10-episode mini-anime series titled Petit Seka that premiered between January and March 2022. P.A. Works also produced a 5-episode net anime titled Journey to Bloom between September and October 2023 to commemorate the game’s third anniversary.

Synopsis
Set in modern day Shibuya, Project Sekai Movie: Kowareta Sekai to Utaenai Miku centers on Ichika Hoshino, a high school girl and street musician who encounters an unknown version of Hatsune Miku after hearing a Miku song that she’d never heard before in a CD store. Ichika learns that this version of Miku is having trouble reaching people with her songs, so together they team up to try to touch the hearts of their audience through music. (Source: Crunchyroll, edited)

Teaser Trailer