Netflix has announced a January 15th start date for the upcoming Maboroshi anime film. The film is produced by MAPPA and directed and written by Mari Okada, with Yuriko Ishii designing the characters and Masaru Yokoyama composing the music. Much of the animation staff from Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms, as well as Vinland Saga (TV series), Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku, and Attack on Titan: The Final Season worked on the film.
Fourteen-year-old Masamune lives in a town where the flow of time has stopped after an explosion at a steel factory seals off all avenues of escape. In hopes that everything will someday return to normal, the town makes a rule that nothing must be changed, and Masamune spends his days in depression. One day, his intriguing and enigmatic classmate Mutsumi leads him into a blast furnace at the steel factory. There, he finds Itsumi, a girl who cannot speak and acts like a wild wolf. Masamune’s encounter with these two girls begins eroding the balance of the world. What future awaits the unstoppable urge to fall in love?