Published: Mar 16, 2022
Updated: Mar 16, 2022
MyAnimeList & The Nippon Foundation’s Umi-to-Nippon Project (The Ocean and Japan Project) are proud to present short anime movie "SpoGomi: World Cup Exhibition Match Arc"!
In the near future, litter-picking has become a competitive sport as popular as soccer.
Akari stands out the least in her class, but one day she meets Tokio—a charismatic SpoGomi competitor blessed with an overwhelming amount of talent and popularity. Thus starts a coming-of-age story that involves young people from around the world, united via SpoGomi and the aim to create towns, rivers and oceans free of garbage.
Tokio: Tokio Emoto
Akari: Haruka Terui
Coco: Marina Inoue
Kei: Naomi Ohzora
Shiro: Toshiyuki Toyonaga
Alex: Yohei Azakami
Safia: Chisa Suganuma
Announcer: Takahiro Kawachi
News Anchor: Fumiko Inoue
The Nippon Foundation Chairman: Yohei Sasakawa
Supervisor: Gisaburo Sugii
Director: Shinnosuke Numata
Script: Kurasumi Sunayama
Unit director / Chief animation director: Masakazu Higuchi
Storyboard: Akinori Nagaoka
Character design: Hiroki Takiguchi
Color setting / Color check: Hiroko Otsuki
Filming: Hideo Yaguchi, Masahiro Ito
Editing: Yumiko Nakaba(Okayasu Promotion)
Ending theme: "Necessary" by Toshiyuki Toyonaga (T’s MUSIC)
Sound production: Katsuaki Ikeda, Masato Ikezawa (Aoni Production)
Sound director: Nobuyuki Abe(ON-LEAD, Takahiro Fujimoto
Recording: Kanami Mitani
Studio: AION studio
Sound effects: Masahiro Shoji
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