Quincy Forever!

Quincy Forever! (クインシーフォーエバー！) is a 2016 anime film based on the manga series Quincy by Ryotaro Sekizawa. It was produced by and animated at J.C.Staff and directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai. Rather than being adapted from a volume of the manga, the film instead has it's own original story written by Ichirō Ōkouchi and Akihiro Nishino. The film stars the voices of Tomokazu Seki, Yūichi Nakamura, Tōru Furuya, Mamiko Noto, Daisuke Namikawa, Daisuke Ono and Takaya Hashi.

Quincy Forever! premiered in Shinjuku at the Cinema Square Tōkyū theaters on March 16, 2016 and was released in Japanese theaters by The KlockWorx on April 16, 2016.

Plot
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Additional Voices

 * Blake Shepard
 * Jerry Jewell
 * Austin Tindle
 * Clifford Chapin
 * Jim Foronda
 * David Matranga
 * Sarah Wiedenheft
 * Chuck Huber
 * Brian Mathis
 * Jamie Marchi
 * Monica Rial
 * Robert McCollum
 * Bryn Apprill

Development
After the conclusion of The Story of Quincy in 2012, LIVE Entertainment reliquished their license to the Quincy characters back to Kodansha, Ltd. though they still retained the rights to the TV series. This meant that new companies would be allowed the possibility to produce a new adaptation of Quincy separate from The Story of Quincy. In 2014, rumors began surfacing that a new film adaptation of Quincy was in the works at a then unknown Japanese animation studio; these rumors were a source of concern for Quincy fans, who were afraid that it wouldn't be the same without Garrett Fredrickson's involvement in the production.

In mid-2014, it was confirmed that a new Quincy film was under production at J.C.Staff and Kodansha and would be released sometime in 2016 under the tenitiative title of just Quincy. A poster for the film was released in May 2015, featuring partly revised character designs by Noizi Ito and Yuichi Tanaka. One week later, a trailer for the film was released teasing the movie's new villain. Amaya Ozaki and Tatsuyuki Nagai developed the film's story with the screenplay written by Ichirō Ōkouchi and Akihiro Nishino. Tatsuyuki Nagai is the film director, Katsuo Hoshino, Shigeki Kimoto, Takao Sano, Miwa Shiro and Hitomi Muramoto serving as the animation directors, Tomonori Kuroda is the art director, and Ayaka Ichikawa is the CGI director. The film also utilizes elements from some of the volumes of the manga, such as Quincy being on vacation before the start of the film, which was how the sixteenth volume of the manga and the final episode of season three of The Story of Quincy concluded, and the plotline about a conspiracy was also the plotline of one of the story arcs in the manga.

On August 11, 2015. the movie's title was revealed to be Quincy Forever! with a release date set for April 16, 2016. Another trailer for the film was released in November of that year.

Release
Quincy Forever! had it's theatrical premiere in Shinjuku at the Cinema Square Tōkyū theaters on March 16, 2016. It later opened nationwide in Japan on April 16, 2016. Funimation, the home video distributor for The Story of Quincy, licensed the film for release in the United States. It was released to theaters in the United States on January 20, 2017 in two formats: an English-subtitled version and an English dub which featured Steve Blum, Cherami Leigh, Jason Marsden, Sean Hayes and Mark Hamill reprising their roles from The Story of Quincy, while other characters were recast completely. Garrett Fredrickson, the creator of The Story of Quincy, served as an ADR director for the returning voice actors alongside Todd Haberkorn. It was also licensed for distribution in the United Kingdom by Manga Entertainment and in Australia by Madman Entertainment.

Home Media
The film was released in Japan in regular and limited edition DVD and Blu-ray formats on January 4, 2017. The Limited editions for both formats include an bonus DVD featuring TV spot, promotional clips, the world premiere event at Shinjuku and an event held on April 15, 2016. Also includes tin badges featuring the characters from the film, 24 postcards, an original card folder and a 60-page booklet.

Funimation released the film on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States on August 8, 2017. The film became a fast seller on home video, with Funimation earning $9.6 million in home video sales for the film by 2020.

Box Office
Quincy Forever! opened on April 16, 2016 in Japan and during it's theatrical run, grossed ¥5.8 billion at the box office. In the United States and Canada, the film grossed $4,583,846 at the box office from 300 screens.

Critical Response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 74% based on 114 reviews, with an average rating of 6.22/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Quincy Forever! makes for an enjoyable, if not slightly misguided diversion for Quincy fans and fans of the detective genre." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score 65 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale.