Mary and the Witch's 花 日本动漫 Film Reveals 2nd Trailer, Additional Cast 

Mary and the Witch\'s Flower Anime Film Reveals 2nd Trailer, Additional Cast

) anime film on Thursday. The video has English subtitles.

began streaming the Japanese version on the same day.

The staff also announced additional cast on Thursday. The new cast members are as follows, from left to right in the image below starting with the top row:

The film will open in Japan on July 8. The English trailer lists a 2017 release window.

has acquired the worldwide rights to the film, and will release the film in the United Kingdom.

is credited as producer. The staff page on the film\'s website further notes that many former staff from

scouted locations in Shropshire, U.K., the setting of the original novel. Amazon\'s description of the original

It is Tib the black cat who leads Mary to the strange flower in the woods. When she discovers a little broomstick shortly afterwards, she is astonished to feel it jump in to action. Before she can gather her wits, it is whisking her over the treetops, above the clouds, and in to the grounds of Endor College, where: \'All Examinations Coached for by A Competent Staff of Fully-Qualified Witches.\' Here she discovers evidence of a terrible experiment in transformation - deformed and mutant animals imprisoned in cages. In the moment after her broomstick takes off, she realises that Tib has been captured. Returning to the College the following day, she manages to free the animals, but not before the Head of the college, Miss Mumblechook, and her colleague, Doctor Dee, have seen her. Mary manages to flee ...but the evil pair are in hot pursuit!

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