Mikasa: The Movie

Mikasa: The Movie is a 2019 American-Japanese anime epic adventure film produced by Wit Studio and distributed by Warner-Fox Animation (under 20th Century Fox). It serves as a spin-off of Attack on Titan. The film stars the voices of Trina Nishimura (reprising her role as the titular protagonist of the film Mikasa), Dakota Fanning, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Brian Blessed, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Stephen Fry and Mark Hamill also starring in the film. In the film in the modern-day world, Mikasa and her daughter must return a young mammoth back to the icy world where it was once frozen.

Mikasa: The Movie was released in the United States in theatres on November 8, 2019. The film was released with an attached Chronicles of Animoria featurette entitled Allias and Puffin's City Adventures starring the main characters of the franchise Allias and Puffin. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised the cast, visual effects, tone, heartfelt scenes, animation, score and Trina's performance, though criticized for the modernization and dark humour, however it was a box office success and one of the highest-grossing movies of 2019.

Cast

 * Trina Nishimura as Mikasa Ackerman
 * Dakota Fanning as Lyra Ackerman, the daughter of Mikasa
 * Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Machairodus King, a ferocious and sadistic white Machairodus and the main antagonist.
 * Brian Blessed as Lord Bennett-Johnson, an arrogant upper-class poacher who is Mikasa's rival and the central antagonist.
 * Keegan-Michael Key as Bubo, an intelligent and comedic primordial hyena and an ally of Mikasa.
 * Jordan Peele as Rakh, a dim-witted, but well-meaning Cuvieronius who is the sidekick of Bubo and an ally to Mikasa and her daughter.
 * Stephen Fry as Owen Hill, Lord Bennett-Johnson's henchman and assistant.
 * Mark Hamill as Calvin, an old man and a good friend to Mikasa after he freed her from permafrost.
 * Candi Milo as Maya, a Latin woman and one of Mikasa's lady friends
 * Kari Wahlgren as Jenny, a British woman and one of Mikasa's friends.
 * Trevor Drevall as Machairodus King's giant baboon henchman #1
 * Brian Drummond as Machairodus King's giant baboon henchman #2
 * Kevin Michael Richardson as the Butcher Man

Bryce Papenbrook and Josh Grelle reprise their roles as Eren and Armin respectively as shown in a flashback sequence where Mikasa was frozen in permafrost.

Trivia/References

 * Mikasa doesn't wear her signature red scarf throughout the entire film.
 * Manny and Buck from the Ice Age franchise and the Colossal Titan make cameos in the film as Lyra's stuffed animals. Manny even made an appearance as part of the mammoth herd.
 * In the scene after Mikasa reconciles with Lyra, a Smilodon resembling Allias from The Chronicles of Animoria makes an appearance, although he tells them that they are not the same because he has the stripes and spots.
 * This is also a nod to the featurette Allias and Puffin's City Adventures premiering before the actual film since they're made from the same studio.
 * This is the fourth Attack on Titan spin-off as it only starred Mikasa in the film as a protagonist. The first three spin-offs were Junior High and Smoke on Signal, which is from the live-action adaptation.
 * While Mikasa is making dinner, she is singing a cover of "This Beautiful Cruel World" by Yōko Hikasa, this could be a nod that the song was playing at the end of the anime.
 * The film takes place in the present day somewhere in the 2010s, however after Mikasa was freed from permafrost, Eren and Armin were both reincarnated as a butterfly and a bird respectively.