Crunchyroll has revealed plans to screen two Given anime films in the U.S. for one day only on June 16, 2025, under the double feature title Given The Double Album: Hiiragi mix & To the Sea. The screenings will be in Japanese with English subtitles.
The feature includes Given The Movie: Hiiragi Mix, which debuted in Japan on January 27, 2024, and Given The Movie: To the Sea, which premiered on September 20, 2024. Hiiragi Mix is currently available for streaming on Crunchyroll, while To the Sea will screen in U.S. theaters a week prior to its streaming debut on the platform.
The two-part anime films act as a sequel to the Given 2019 TV anime series and the 2020 Given the Movie.
• Shogo Yano as Mafuyu Sato
• Yuma Uchida as Ritsuka Uenoyama
• Masatomo Nakazawa as Haruki Nakayama
• Takuya Eguchi as Akihiko Kaji
• Fumiya Imai as Hiiragi Kashima
• Taito Ban as Shizusumi Yagi
The original Boys’ Love manga series by Natsuki Kizu was serialized in Shinshokan’s Chéri+ magazine from April 30, 2013, to March 30, 2023, with a total of nine tankobon volumes published. VIZ Media distributes the manga in English under its BL imprint, SuBLime.
The manga also led to an epilogue spin-off named Given 10th mix in 2024 and an audio drama in 2016.
Crunchyroll outlines the main synopses of the two Given anime films as follows: Given The Movie: Hiiragi Mix
Following Ritsuka Uenoyama’s listening to Mafuyu Sato sing, he invites Mafuyu to join his band. Given auditions for a festival in Shibuya but falls short, yet they continue to gain attention. Simultaneously, Mafuyu’s childhood friends, Shizusumi Yagi and Hiiragi Kashima, prepare to debut as the band “syh.” When they lose a guitarist, Hiiragi prompts Ritsuka to join them for their major performance. Given The Movie: To the Sea
After encountering singer Mafuyu Sato, Ritsuka Uenoyama’s love for music is reignited. Their band, Given, moves towards greatness just as Mafuyu starts to question his place as the group’s singer. After turning down Ritsuka’s concert invitation in Shibuya, Mafuyu meets an old friend. Could this encounter provide the encouragement Mafuyu requires to take the stage again?
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376 Pages - 08/22/2014 (Publication Date) - Learn From Zero (Publisher)
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 directed both Hiiragi Mix and To the Sea films, with Mina Osawa as character designer and Yuniko Ayana as scriptwriter. Lerche conducted animation production for both films, similarly to the 2020 film and TV anime series.<br />
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