Netflix and Twin Engine have revealed the teaser trailer, key art, main cast, and release date for the anime film The Ribbon Hero, adapted from Osamu Tezuka‘s manga Princess Knight (Ribbon no Kishi). The film will debut worldwide on August 8.
Main Cast
Playing the role of Sapphire is Saya from the comedy duo Lalande — Netflix notes this is the first time she has taken a lead role in a full-length anime film.
Synopsis
Sapphire is a princess of a kingdom that no longer exists. She has lost everything in her homeland of Silverland to a calamity known as “Nergal” and must flee desperately, eventually reaching the land of Goldland. Though haunted by wounds from the past, she begins to find a glimmer of hope in the kindness of the people around her.
As she tries to settle into a peaceful new life, the Nergal disaster reappears, threatening to rob her of the homeland she has already lost once. Now the same land is on the verge of being plunged into the same darkness.
“I will never lose anything again. And I will never let anyone else lose anything either.”
Shedding tears of sorrow, she rises — this is the story of a lone heroine who is wounded yet resolute, facing her own destiny.
Production Team
Yuuki Igarashi, the director behind Star Wars: Visions episode “Lop & Ocho” and the first ending sequence of Jujutsu Kaisen, is directing this film at his new studio OUTLINE — marking his first feature-length directorial work.
- Character Design: Kei Mochizuki (LOOPERS, Twin Star Cyclone Runaway, Criminal Girls X), with design consultation from Mai Yoneyama (Kiznaiver, “COLORs” music video)
- Animation Character Designer: Issei Arakaki (Vladlove, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation)
- Art Direction: Cédric Hérolé (Wait for Me, Magikarp)
- Music: Satoru Kōsaki (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) and Ryūichi Takada (Shangri-La Frontier), both from MONACA
- Nergal Design: Okama
- Art Director: Masanobu Nomura
- Color Design: Natsumi Watabe
- CG Director: Akine Nagamine
- Compositing Director: Hikaru Fukuda
- Editor: Junichi Uematsu
- Sound Director: Keiichirō Miyoshi
- Sound Production: TOHOKUSHINSHA FILM CORPORATION
Screening at Annecy 2025
The film has been selected for the “Annecy Presents” section — an out-of-competition showcase of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival — which takes place in Annecy, France from June 21–27.
About the Source Manga
Osamu Tezuka’s manga Princess Knight began serialization in Kodansha’s Nakayoshi magazine from January 1958. Publisher Vertical later released an English-language two-volume edition in 2011 and a digital version in 2015. Most recently, Kodansha USA Publishing compiled both volumes into a single omnibus in August 2022.
Source: ann_jp
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