Nicole S. Castro
Feb 24, 2022
Lonely Castle in the Mirror, which won first place in the 2018 Japan Booksellers' Award, is getting an anime film this Winter 2022.
February 24, 2022 at 12:25 PHT by Nicole S. Castro
An official website has been opened to announce that an anime film adaptation is in production for Mizuki Tsujimura's 2017 fantasy novel Lonely Castle in the Mirror (Romaji: Kagami no Kojou, Japanese: かがみの孤城).
The plot revolves around female protagonist Kokoro who shuts herself in her room and refuses to go to school after a frightening experience. One day, the mirror in her room begins to glow and she is transported to the world inside the mirror to search for a Wish Key to grant a single wish.
Lonely Castle in the Mirror won first place in the 2018 Japan Booksellers' Award and became an instant bestseller in Japan, selling over half a million copies. The novel also won the Da Vinci Book of the Year in 2017 for the Novel Category. Tsujimura's work then won the Da Vinci Book of the Year again in 2021, this time for the Paperback Category.
An English translation of the original novel (translated by Philip Gabriel) is available on Penguin Books and Amazon.
In addition, a manga adaptation with illustrations by Tomo Taketomi is ongoing serialization in Shueisha's Ultra Jump imprint.
Source: Lonely Castle in the Mirror official website courtesy of A.I.R. News
NICOLE S. CASTRO
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Nicole is based in the Philippines and works as a freelance Japanese Translator/Interpreter and copywriter (English). She is a JLPT N2 passer who watches anime to "study" for N1. She has a long career history on LinkedIn (with primary focus on media and translation), but her anime watchlist is much, much longer.