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Magic Tree House Trailer	Tue, 1 Nov 2011
A 107 second trailer for Hiroshi (Azumanga Daioh) Nishikiori’s anime adaptation of “The Dinosaurs Before Dark” was premiered at The Tokyo International Film Festival. The Dinosaurs Before Dark is part of American author Mary Pope Osborne’s series of books named The Magic Tree House started in 1992. The story focuses two siblings: eight-year-old Jack and seven-year-old Rin. The two siblings go on adventures through time thanks to a magic tree house owned by a mysterious woman named Morgan and in this movie they travel back to the Cretaceous Period. Jack is voiced by Keiko Kitagawa who played Yukari in the recent live-action Paradise Kiss and Rin is voiced by Mana Ashida, who took on the role of Rin in the recent live-action adaptation of Usagi Drop. The adaptation has an impressive staff-list behind it with the director of Azumanga Daioh and Toaru Majutsu no Index, Hiroshi Nishikiori, working off a script by Ichiro Okouchi, writer on shows like Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion and Azumanga Daioh. Yoshiaki Yanagida (Genshiken, Spirit of Wonder) designed the characters and supervised the animation process. The film will be released on the 7th of January, 2012. Source Related: Azumanga Daioh, Code Geass, Spirit Of Wonder, Hiroshi Nishikiori
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