We Are Aliens Lines Up Eight Character Visuals With Four New Voices

Nothing New just showed how We Are Aliens carries its four leads from a Heisei countryside summer into adulthood. The label posted eight character portraits that sit child and grown-up Tsubasa, Gyotaro, Konatsu, and Batahara side by side — a visual timeline for a story that stretches across thirty years.

The same Thursday drop filled the schoolyard around them. Gaku Sano voices Seiya Toda, the noisy friend who gloms onto Tsubasa, with Reika Ozeki as young Toda. Arisa Sasaki is classmate Elmo Matsushita, and Edo Harumi is the calligraphy teacher at the boys' school. After reading the script, Sano talked about a nostalgia that feels like a soft kind of regret; Ozeki said the finished film sits beside a younger version of yourself.

Kohei Kadowaki wrote, boarded, directed, and edited the original feature — the same animator who built the BEASTARS Season 2 ending. Yaffle scores the film, and adieu performs the theme "Sasakure." Ryota Bando and Amane Okayama play adult Tsubasa and Gyotaro; Ten Yamasaki of Sakurazaka46 and Kemuri Matsui already cover Konatsu and Batahara.

After a Directors' Fortnight premiere at Cannes and a berth in Annecy's feature competition, the movie opens across Japan on September 25 from TOHO NEXT and Nothing New. A Motion Gallery campaign that aimed for 8 million yen last November has already cleared 9 million, with French studio Miyu Productions on production cooperation.

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