is a Japanese animated short film produced by Flat Studio and directed by . It was released in Japanese theaters on November 12, 2021.

Voice cast

Production

In June 2020, animator and illustrator revealed that he is producing a short theatrical anime film as part of the Project Common multimedia project. The film was unveiled in February 2021, with the project serving as Loundraw's directorial debut. It is produced by Loundraw's company Flat Studio, with scripts written by Hirotaka Adachi, and music composed by , Itoko Toma, , and Hideya Kojima.

Release

Theatrical

''Summer Ghost'' was released in Japanese theaters on November 12, 2021 by its distributor

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. It had its international premiere on the same day at the

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in England. In North America,

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screened the film in Japanese and English language formats in 2022. The film premiered at

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on July 3, 2022.

Home media

The film was released on

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in Japan on March 25, 2022. The limited edition version includes the original soundtrack, an 80-minute documentary of the film's production,

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, and a special booklet. GKIDS and

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released the film in North America on November 1, 2022, on Blu-ray and digital platforms.

Related media

manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics ...

adaptation by Yoshi Inomi was serialized in

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's ' website from October 8, 2021, to June 3, 2022. The chapters were compiled into two volumes, released on November 19, 2021, and June 17, 2022. Two novels were written by the film's scriptwriter Hirotaka Adachi. The first is a novelization that expands on the film's story which was released on October 29, 2021. The second is an original spin-off novel titled ''Ichinose Yūna ga Uiteiru'' (''Yūna Ichinose Is Floating'') which was released on November 26 of the same year. In February 2023,

Seven Seas Entertainment Seven Seas Entertainment is an American publishing company located in Los Angeles, California. It was originally dedicated to the publication of original English-language manga, but now publishes licensed manga and light novels from Japan, as w ...

announced that they licensed the novel and manga adaptations. They were both released in digital and print formats on August 8 of the same year.

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