On Thursday was PR-Event for the fully CG-animated movie called "Hottarake no Shima - Haruka and the Magic Mirror" with actress Ayase Haruka lending her voice to the main character Haruka. Ayase is not only loving that character for sharing the same name as her, "She's even like my alter ego." She also talked about the difficult of working as a voice actress. "I had to do a really high-pitched scream for a scene when she's falling down, I had to scream so long that I got a sore throat."

The movie itself is a collaboration between the "Ghost in the Shell" makers Production I.G. and Fuji TV. It is a full CG Japan-specific animated movie and they've been working on it for more than 4 years. The cell-shading look is giving it a very nice hand-drawn feel. It's currently in its final stages and they plan to finish it by the end of July. Ayase and the other voice actors already recorded all their scenes by looking only at the story board, that kind of pre-recording technique is called "prescoring".

It was the first time for Ayase to work like that. "We had to perform by looking at only the pictures, it was still okay, but very difficult." She said while looking back at her difficult time in the studio.

Tanimura Mitsuki also attended the event, she's playing a friend of Haruka while Toda Naho plays the mother. Director Sato Makoto and producer Kameyama Chihiro made the group complete. The story of the movie is named after the popular question, "What did things did you start to neglect until they completely disappeared without you becoming aware?" Ayase answered, "A collection of 100 Japanese fairy-tale books", while Tanimura said, "all my arithmetic notes from junior high" and Toda is missing her accordion.

The movie will follow a girl named Haruka as she discovers where all of our childhood keepsakes and memorabilia go. "In this story, we meet fantastic creatures that gather all these little objects that fall into oblivion as they are forgotten by their owners when they step into adulthood. These creatures sneak into our world from a different dimension, and unseen by humans, they take all the ditched and forgotten 'treasures' into their world. Here, they use their booty to build their own city, a fairy-tale like place called…Oblivion Island!"

"Hottarake no Shima" is going to come out on August 22.

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Written by: jyoyu.blogspot.com
Source: Oricon
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