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Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (2021) [N/A]

Release Date:
June 11, 2021

Original Title:
漁港の肉子ちゃん

Alternate Titles:
Fortune Favours Lady Nikuko
Gyokou no Nikuko-chan
Gyokō no Nikuko-chan
Nikuko of the Fishing Harbor

Genres:
Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family

Production Companies:
Asmik Ace
STUDIO4℃
Yoshimoto Kogyo

Production Countries:
Japan | United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: M  DE: 6  FR: TP  GB: PG 

Runtime: 97

Overview from TheMovieDB

Nikuko is a brash, jolly, scattered, and passionate woman in an otherwise sleepy seaside town in northern Japan. She’s also the single mother of 11-year-old Kikuko, who is her opposite in many ways. Kikuko is a string-bean of a young girl, pensive, quietly curious, and methodical in how she approaches life in this small harbor town. Nikuko embarrasses Kikuko as any mom of a preteen would, but Nikuko’s bold spirit makes her especially well-known in a town where Kikuko herself wants nothing more than to simply blend in. As Kikuko navigates the everyday social dramas of middle school, enhanced with touches of magical realism from her ever-present imagination, a shocking revelation from the past threatens to uproot the pair’s tender relationship.

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Additional Storyboarding:
Kyohei Ishiguro

Animation:
Mado
Magho
Saurabh Singh
KAWAHAGI
Kiyakiya
Gin-san
Manamoto
Julia Derungs

Animation Director:
Shunsuke Hirota
Sanae Shimada
Kaori Hayashi
Ayako Hata
Kanako Yoshida

Art Direction:
Shinji Kimura

Background Designer:
Tsuyoshi Nakatani
Hisako Akagi
Nachi Kitayama
Katsumi Akimoto
Hisayoshi Takahashi
Saori Iwatani
Tadashi Kudo
Kouji Maruyama
Sagako Itakura
Marie Kitai
Kiyoshi Sameshima
Ayami Hidaka
Takahiro Terauchi
Yu Tachimoto
Tomoko Sekiya
Ami Shimomura
Junko Matsui
Chisayo Namai
Tomoki Moriya
Miyuki Sugita

CGI Director:
Takanori Nakajima

Character Designer:
Kenichi Konishi

Color Designer:
Miyuki Ito

Director:
Ayumu Watanabe

Editor:
Kiyoshi Hirose

Executive Producer:
Shu Kamigaso
Akihiko Okamoto
Keiichi Yoshizaki

Key Animation:
Moaang
Proro
Miyaso
Kou Horio
Daiki Harashina
Hisashi Eguchi
Ren Onodera
Katsuya Yoshii
Harumi Yamazaki
Shunsuke Hirota
Sanae Shimada
Kaori Hayashi
Kanako Yoshida
Yuuya Geshi
Sugoroku
Tatsuzo Nishita
Katsuhiko Kitada
Minoru Ohashi
Ayako Hata
Rika Ota
Keisuke Okura
Tomokatsu Nagasaku
Erika Nishihara
Emi Tamura
Huang Chieh
Saki Hasegawa
Akiko Itagaki
Masumi Yoshida
Maiko Kobayashi
Kazuhiko Yabumoto
Yuitsu Kusakabe
Blue
Shogo Teramoto
Rina Kagiyama
Shintaro Doge
Yasuyuki Shimizu
Miki Matsumoto
Emiko Shimura
Keita Nagahara
Yuki Igarashi
Izumi Murakami
Nobuyuki Takeuchi
Shun Miyakawa

Novel:
Kanako Nishi

Original Music Composer:
Takatsugu Muramatsu

Producer:
Sanma Akashiya
Mitsugu Yamada
Junya Komatsu
Kenji Suga

Production Assistant:
Tomoko Ogiwara

Screenplay:
Satomi Oshima

Second Unit Director:
Kenichiro Akimoto

Sound Director:
Koji Kasamatsu

Supervising Animation Director:
Kenichi Konishi

Theme Song Performance:
Kurumi Inagaki

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