Image source: Cai Chang Asia Facebook page — via Anime News Network
Cai Chang Asia originally opened the film in Taiwan in August 2024. The film opened in Japan in June 2024.
Yūmi Kawai and Mizuki Yoshida star in the film. Kawai plays Fujino, a fourth grader who draws four-panel comics in the school newspaper. Yoshida plays Kyomoto, Fujino's classmate who has been skipping school.
Kiyotaka Oshiyama (Flip Flappers) directed the anime, and was also in charge of the screenplay and character designs. Oshiyama's Studio Durian produced the film. Singer urara performed the film's theme "Light song"by composer haruka nakamura.
Fujimoto debuted the one-shot manga on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ in July 2021. The manga had over 2.5 million views on its first day. Viz Media and MANGA Plus launched the manga digitally in English. Viz Media published the mangain print in September 2022. The company describes the story:
The manga won the first Rakuten Kobo E-book Awards in May 2023, and it ranked at #1 in the 2022 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook. It was also nominated for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards in 2023, and was second place at the 15thManga Taisho awards.
The manga is inspiring a live-action film that will open on September 11 in Japan. Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters, Our Little Sister, Air Doll) is directing and editing the film, and is also writing the screenplay.