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Odex to Screen No Game, No Life Zero in Philippines in December

Odex announced on Tuesday that it will screen the No Game, No Life Zero film in the Philippines with a tentative opening date of December 6.

While Odex screened the film in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam, it explained that it initially did not acquire the license for the Philippines due to a local distributor wanting to license the film, but abruptly backing out. It noted that the same situation occurred for the release of Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions, and that Odex were called in at the last minute for the local screening of No Game, No Life Zero.

The film opened in Japan on July 15, and received 4DX screenings at 48 theaters in Japan beginning on September 9. As of August 13, the film's box office total has surpassed 500 million yen (about US$4.6 million).

North American company Sentai Filmworks has licensed the film for North America, and it describes the story:

Six thousand years before Sora and Shiro were even a blink in the history of Disboard, war consumed the land, tearing apart the heavens, destroying stars, and even threatening to wipe out the human race. Amid the chaos and destruction, a young man named Riku leads humanity toward the tomorrow his heart believed in. One day, in the ruins of an Elf city, he meets Shuvi, a female exiled "Ex-machina" android who asks him to teach her what it means to have a human heart.

Although the film features the same main cast members as the previous television anime, many of them are credited as characters who lived six millennia before Sora and Shiro came into the alternate world. However, the film's latest visual (pictured below) shows returning characters, including Sora and Shiro.

Although the film features the same main cast members as the previous television anime, many of them are credited as characters who lived six millennia before Sora and Shiro came into the alternate world. However, the film's latest visual (pictured right) shows returning characters, including Sora and Shiro.

Atsuko Ishizuka returned from the television anime series to direct the film at Madhouse. Jukki Hanada also returned to handle the script, and Satoshi Tasaki designed the characters. Kazuhiro Hocchi drew the concept art. Eiji Iwase returned as art director, and Tsukasa Ōhira reprised the background art setting role. However, Yoshiaki Fujisawa composed the music.