Anime studio Twin Engine has begun streaming a new promotional video for The Ribbon Hero, its upcoming anime film based on Osamu Tezuka‘s classic manga Princess Knight (Ribbon no Kishi). The clip centers on the relationship between the film’s two key characters, Sapphire and Pine.
Story
Netflix describes the film’s premise as follows: Sapphire is the princess of a kingdom that no longer exists. After losing everything in her homeland of Silverland to a catastrophe known as “Nergal,” she wanders in despair until she arrives in Goldland. There, the kindness of the people around her begins to rekindle a flicker of hope — until Nergal strikes again, threatening to reduce this new land to the same ashes as her home.
“I won’t lose anything ever again. And I won’t let anyone else lose anything either.” Brushing away her tears, the girl takes up her sword. This is the story of a lone hero who ties her ribbon and resolves to defy her fate.
Cast
- Sapphire: Saya (comedy duo Lalande) — her first leading role in a feature-length animated production
- Pine: Seiran Kobayashi
- Velvet: Kōki Uchiyama
- Zirco: Mayumi Shintani
Staff
Yuuki Igarashi — known for directing the Star Wars: Visions episode “Lop & Ocho” and the first ending sequence of Jujutsu Kaisen — directs the film at his new studio OUTLINE, marking his feature-length directorial debut.
- Character Design: Kei Mochizuki, with cooperation from Mai Yoneyama (Kiznaiver)
- Animation Character Designer: Issei Arakaki (Vladlove, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation)
- Artistic Direction: Cédric Hérole (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 Key Artist: Natsumi Watabe
- CG Director: Akine Nagamine
- Compositing Director of Photography: Hikaru Fukuda
- Editor: Junichi Uematsu
- Sound Director: Keiichirō Miyoshi
- Sound Production: TOHOKUSHINSHA FILM CORPORATION
The Japanese/Korean group Girls Archives. performs the theme song “Reborn.”
Annecy 2025
The Ribbon Hero has been selected for “Annecy Presents,” a non-competitive section of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, running in Annecy, France from June 21–27.
About the Source Manga
Osamu Tezuka’s Princess Knight manga launched in Kodansha’s Nakayoshi magazine in January 1958. Vertical published an English-language edition in two print volumes in 2011 and digitally in 2015. Kodansha USA Publishing most recently released a one-volume omnibus edition in August 2022.
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