The weeper will return with ATRI: My Dear Moments
On the official site for the anime adaptation of the visual novel developed by Makura, Frontwing, and iMel Inc., "ATRI: My Dear Moments," a new promotional video for the project was revealed. The video confirms that the premiere is scheduled for July 13 in Japan, and shows a snippet of the opening theme titled "Ano Hikari" and performed by Nogizaka46.
The visual novel was released in June 2020 and is available on Nintendo Switch consoles, Android devices, and PC via Steam, with a playable demo where reviews are mostly positive. This is one of the projects by Frontwing and Makura, creators of "The Fruit of Grisaia", and Asuta Konno, screenwriter of "If My Heart Had Wings".
Voice Cast
- Hikaru Akao as Atri
- Kensho Ono as Natsuki Ikaruga
- Minami Takahashi as Minamo Kamishiro
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Ryuuji Nojima
- Youko Hikasa as Catherine
- Anzu Haruno as Ririka Nanami
Production Equipment
- Makoto Katou (Yagate Kimi ni Naru, Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru) is in charge of directing the anime at TROYCA Studios.
- Jukki Hanada (Steins; Gate, Nanatsu no Taizai, No Game No Life) is in charge of writing and supervising the scripts.
- Michio Satou (Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru, Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199) is in charge of character design and animation direction.
- Fuminori Matsumoto (Grisaia no Kajitsu, Chime) is in charge of composing the soundtrack.
Synopsis of ATRI: My Dear Moments
In the near future, a sudden and inexplicable rise of the sea has left much of human civilization underwater. Ikaruga Natsuki, a boy who lost his mother and her leg in an accident a few years earlier, returns disillusioned from a hard life in the big city to find his old home in the countryside half-swallowed by the sea. With no family, all he has to his name is the boat and submarine left to him by his oceanologist grandmother, and his debts. His only hope of regaining the dreams for the future he has lost is to seize an opportunity presented to him by the suspicious debt collector Catherine. They set sail to search the sunken ruins of their grandmother's laboratory in order to find a treasure that she rumors she left behind.
But what they find isn't riches or jewels; it's a strange girl lying asleep in a coffin at the bottom of the sea. Atri. Atri is a robot, but her looks and wealth of emotions would fool anyone into believing that she is a living, breathing human being. In gratitude for being rescued, she makes a statement to Natsuki. "I want to carry out my master's last order. Until I do, I'll be your leg!" In a small town that is slowly being engulfed by the ocean, an unforgettable summer is about to begin for this boy and this mysterious robot girl...
Source: Comic Natalie
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