DEEMO Memorial Keys

DEEMO Memorial Keys (2022)

DEEMO サクラノオト -あなたの奏でた音が、今も響く-

Never left without saying goobye

Deemo is a lonely individual who lives in solitude, playing the piano in a castle. One day, a girl who has lost her memory falls from the sky. Wanting to help her recover her memories and return to her world, Deemo discovers that a tree kept atop the piano will grow whenever the piano is played.

Date of release
2022-02-25
TMDB
7.6 / 10 (19)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Animation, Drama, Romance, Mystery, Fantasy
Director
Shuhei Matsushita

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Deemo

Deemo: Memorial Keys is a 2021 Japanese animated film produced by Production I.G and Signal.MD, based on the Taiwanese mobile rhythm game Deemo developed by Rayark. It was released theatrically in Japan in February 2022. This was Signal.MD's final anime film as the studio will be absorbed by Production I.G in June 2025.

Production

Game developer Rayark announced that Deemo would receive an animated adaptation in November 2019. The film would be animated by Production I.G and Signal.MD, and directed by Shūhei Matsushita, with Junichi Fujisaku serving as executive director and Mebachi as character designer.

The theme song is titled "Nocturne" (stylized in all lowercase), composed by Yuki Kajiura and performed by Hinano Takashima. Takashima was selected through a worldwide audition of 1400 participants that took place from January to July 2020, with the final round being broadcast as part of the Anime Expo Lite 2020 online event on July 4.

Ayana Taketatsu was the first voice actress announced to take part in the film, continuing her performance in Deemo: Last Recital as the voice of main character Alice. In March 2021, it was announced at the AnimeJapan 2021 virtual event that Akari Nibu of Hinatazaka46 would voice the Masked Lady.

The film was Nibu and Kōhei Matsushita's first major voice acting role. Despite this, Fujisaku decided to treat Nibu "equally" and raised his expectations of her, while Taketatsu commented that Nibu's performance did not "feel like that of a first-timer". Meanwhile, Matsushita consulted "word by word" with the director on producing a voice which would fit the film's world, and also drew from his experience as a pianist.

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