We Are Aliens opens in Japanese theaters on September 25, and Tatsuki Fujimoto has offered a striking endorsement. The Chainsaw Man creator watched an early screening and later sat down with the film’s writer-director, Kohei Kadowaki, for a conversation released by producer NOTHING NEW.
Fujimoto said he first noticed the project through its crowdfunding teaser. He likes original animation and wanted to see the film if the team could carry through the style shown there. He admitted that he went into the screening ready to leave if it did not work for him. His response afterward was much warmer.
I thought it was incredibly good. I felt nothing more interesting would come out for the next three years.
That is an English rendering of Fujimoto’s Japanese comment, not a claim that he spoke those exact English words. It is also his personal reaction, not a review score or a promise about how all anime fans will feel. What makes the remark useful is that he explained what connected with him: the film’s two young leads.
What is the film about?
Tsubasa is a quiet boy who worries about being ordinary. In third grade, he befriends Akitaro, a popular classmate who seems different from everyone around him. Their games and conversations become the center of the story. Then rumors and an incident at school change the friendship. The film follows what that relationship means across roughly thirty years.
Kadowaki wrote and directed the film. Ryota Bando and Amane Okayama lead the voice cast. It is an original animated feature, not a Chainsaw Man adaptation and not a film Fujimoto made. His role in this news is as a filmmaker’s guest and an admirer of the finished work.
In the conversation, Fujimoto said he believes viewers will connect with either Tsubasa or Akitaro. He also called the movie an experience that makes people want to talk about their own lives afterward. Kadowaki said that, even five months after finishing the film, he had no regrets about the version he made.
Where can you see We Are Aliens?
The confirmed release is Japanese cinemas from September 25. The producer announced the date and the film has already screened at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and in Annecy’s feature-film competition. Those festival appearances do not mean it has a global streaming release. No international service or date is confirmed in the producer’s materials we checked.
If you read our earlier We Are Aliens story, that piece focused on the Konatsu trailer. This update is about the cinema opening and Fujimoto’s conversation with Kadowaki. The film’s title page has the broader premise and cast.
For fans interested in original anime films, the main point is simple: We Are Aliens is now in Japanese theaters, and Fujimoto’s enthusiastic comments give viewers one more reason to look into it. Whether it reaches cinemas or streaming outside Japan remains a separate, unconfirmed question.
