Ushio Tazawa’s Deiji Meets Girl Meets Theaters This Year

April 28, 2022

GKIDS took to its official Twitter account to announce that the short series Deiji Meets Girl will come to theaters later this year. Composed of 12 episodes, each lasting approximately 90 seconds, Deiji Meets Girl is directed by Ushio Tazawa, who worked on acclaimed films like Your Name and The Place Promised in Our Early Days.

The shorts were originally broadcast in Japan separately as a 12-part series but will be screened in theaters throughout North America at an unspecified later date this year.

The poster and a number of stills from Deiji Meets Girl were posted in consecutive tweets, all of which you can view below.

“Maise is stuck spending the summer after her first year of high school helping out at her family’s hotel in the sleepy seaside town, but things become a little less sleepy once Ichiro, a mysterious young man, checks into the hotel,” says the official synopsis. “It seems as if only Maise and Ichiro can see the strange, sudden apparitions: the hotel lobby and the room transforming into an aquarium, a giant tree erupting from the floor or the rowdy monsters laying claim to the hotel restaurant. Maise vows to figure out not just what’s causing these odd occurrences but why Ichiro has come to this remote town in the first place.”

You can sign up for email updates on Deiji Meets Girl on the GKIDS website.