With Mamoru Hosoda’s newest film opening in US theaters this Friday, Studio Chizu and the movie’s distributor have shared a brand new trailer for Belle. The greater than three-minute-long clip reveals the film’s opening scene in its entirety, introducing us to U, Belle’s metaverse-like digital world. The trailer is generally a showcase of Studio Chizu’s virtuoso animation work, however we additionally get to listen to an equally nice English cowl of Millennium Parade’s “U” and study extra in regards to the setting.
The metaverse has been a sizzling subject just lately thanks largely to the work Meta has finished to advertise the idea as the following large evolution of the web, however Belle director Mamoru Hosoda has interested by what digital worlds would possibly imply for our interpersonal relationships for a very long time. Back in 2009, he directed Summer Wars. That movie imagines a world the place every part is related by a separate digital realm. More than a decade in the past, the concept appeared outlandish. Now it feels prescient.