A two-minute “particular video” for the mermaid x human anime romance movie ChaO has been launched. The brand new have a look at the movie options a dance carried out by most important heroine Chao, and in addition sports activities the insert tune “Anata no Tame ni.”

ChaO will premiere in Japan on August 15 JST, and it’ll even be screened in North America, courtesy of GKIDS. The film is about in a world of people and mermaids, the place male protagonist Stephan works at a shipbuilding firm as an workplace employee. A proposal from Chao, a mermaid princess, brings a wave of change to his life.

ChaO was the recipient of the Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Competition 2025’s Jury Award within the Characteristic Movie class.

Workers

• Director: Yasuhiro Aoki (Psycho-Go: The Film co-character designer, SAMURAI NOODLES “THE ORIGINATOR” unit director et al.)
• Character designer and animation director: Hirokazu Kojima (Shoka, Extra Than a Married Couple, However Not Lovers ending design and animation) 
• Background artwork director: Hiroshi Takiguchi (Weathering With You)
• Animation manufacturing: Studio 4°C

Solid

• Oji Suzuka as Stephan
• Anna Yamada as Chao
• Yuichiro Umehara as Roberta
• Kavka Shishido as Mai Bei 

Supply: Toei Eiga Channel