Series of 12 90-second episodes premiered on October 1
GKIDS announced on Thursday that it will screen the original short anime Deiji Meets Girl (“Deji” Meets Girl) in theaters this year.
The anime premeired on October 1 “in the tail end of the Super Animeism” block on MBS, TBS, and 26 other affiliated stations. The anime had 12 90-second weekly episodes.
The anime had its international premiere as a closing-day screening of Montreal’s 25th Fantasia International Film Festival last August.
The wondrous story is set in motion one summer when Maise Higa, a listless first-year high school girl who works part-time at the front desk of her family’s hotel in Okinawa, meets an “Ichirō Suzuki,” a mysterious youth who came alone from Tokyo as a hotel guest. Since Suzuki’s arrival, “dëji” things have been happening around Maise, like fish swimming around the room or a…
