Indonesian cinema chain CGV Cinemas announced on Tuesday that the anime film of Nowaki Fukamidori’s Whoever Steals This Book (Kono Hon o Nusumu Mono wa) fantasy novel will open in Indonesia on September 4.
The film openedin Japan in December 2025.
The film stars:
Daisei Fukuoka (Radiant series director, Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High School: Despair Arc and Future Arc, Phantom of the Idol) directed the film at Kagome Company (KAGOKAN). Yasuhiro Nakanishi (Kaguya-sama: Love is War, No Longer Allowed In Another World, Shy) wrote the script, Keiko Kurosawa (Astra Lost in Space, Asobi Asobase -workshop of fun-) designed the characters and was the film’s animation director, and Michiru Ōshima (Fullmetal Alchemist, Little Witch Academia) composed the music. KAGOKAN founder Yūji Higa (Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High School: Despair Arc, Asobi Asobase -workshop of fun-, Radiant) was theanimation producer, and Kadokawa Animation is distributing the film.
Other staff members include:
Vocalist YUKI (formerly of Judy and Mary) performs the theme song “Share.”
Yen On licensed and released the novel in February 2025. Yen On describes the story:
Kadokawa first published thenovel in 2020. A manga adaptation of the novel by Kakeru Sora was serialized in Kadokawa’s Young Ace magazine from December 2021 to March 2023. Yen Press released the manga’s three compiled book volumes in English.
Kadokawa published Fukamidori’s spinoff novel titled Kūsō no Umi (Fantasy Sea) in May 2023.