Crunchyroll introduced that it’s going to display Mamoru Hosoda’s The Boy and The Beast to pick theatres within the U.S. for one-day-only on August 18, 2025. Crunchyroll and Sony Photos Leisure will launch the movie in choose U.S. theatres in Japanese with English subtitles. Tickets for the screening are additionally now on sale and extra data will be discovered here.

Hosoda directed and wrote the movie’s screenplay at Studio Chizu. His subsequent anime movie, Scarlet, will premiere in Japan on November 21, 2025 and in North America on December 12, 2025. 

The Boy and The Beast first premiered in Japan on July 11, 2015. It grossed 5.85 billion yen (US$4.26 million) on the Japanese field workplace and gained the Animation of the 12 months on the thirty seventh Japan Academy Film Prize in 2016. Funimation first licensed the movie for launch within the U.S. in 2015. 

Crunchyroll describes the principle synopsis of The Boy and The Beast as: 

The newest characteristic movie from award-winning Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda (Summer time Wars, Wolf Kids): When Kyuta, a younger orphan residing on the streets of Shibuya, stumbles right into a improbable world of beasts, he’s taken in by Kumatetsu, a gruff, rough-around-the-edges warrior beast who’s been looking for the proper apprentice. 

Regardless of their fixed bickering, Kyuta and Kumatetsu start coaching collectively and slowly kind a bond as surrogate father and son. However when a deep darkness threatens to throw the human and beast worlds into chaos, the robust bond between this unlikely pair can be put to the last word check—a ultimate showdown that can solely be gained if the 2 can lastly work collectively utilizing all of their mixed power and braveness.

The firm additionally lately introduced the launch of Crunchyroll Anime Nights in additional than 225 theaters within the U.S. later this 12 months, beginning October 2025. It is going to display the upcoming Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon needs to be beloved and the primary seven episodes of OVERLORD season one. 

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