Details

Release year: 2019

Storyline

A young girl is drawn into a mystery involving sealife around the world, in which two mysterious boys are somehow involved.

Top credits

Directors

Ayumu Watanabe

Writers

Cast

Mana Ashida — Azumi Ruka
Hiiro Ishibashi — Umi
Seishû Uragami — Sora
Win Morisaki — Angurâdo

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Did you know

• The "kaiju" in the Japanese title is the Japanese term for a marine mammal ("sea beast"), but is written with Japanese characters that mean literally "strange beast" (referring to monsters like Godzilla (1954) and/or Mothra (1961)).

• Anime composer Joe Hisaishi's scores for this movie and NiNoKuni (2019) are his first for a non-Studio Ghibli animated feature since Venus Wars (1989), which premiered almost exactly 30 years and one month earlier.

• When the movie was first announced to the public in February 2019, Airu Kubozuka was announced as the voice of Sora. However, in April 2019 it was announced that Kubozuka had dropped out of the role because his voice was in the process of breaking, making it impossible for him to voice the character consistently, and role had instead been taken on by Seishû Uragami.