And So We Battle

And So We Battle is a 2024 Japanese-American-Australian epic intercompany crossover film co-produced by Screen Gems, YouTube Premium, The Pokémon Company, OLM Inc., Toei Animation, Gainax, Marvel Studios, Image Comics, Sega, Original Film, Blumhouse Productions, Scott Cawthon Productions, Legendary Pictures, Channel Awesome, Cinemassacre, SpindleHorse Toons, Glitch Productions, Good Universe, 87North Productions, and Toho and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing and YouTube. A massive multiplayer crossover between the Pokémon anime, Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, Neon Genesis Evangelion, the Fantastic Four comics, the Spawn comics, the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movies, the MonsterVerse, Five Nights at Freddy's, The Nostalgia Critic, The Angry Video Game Nerd, Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss, Murder Drones, and The Amazing Digital Circus, the film intertwines live-action with anime, traditional animation, computer animation, motion capture and visual effects, and practical animatronics, and serves as an epic crossover event in celebration to their legacies. Directed by Francis Lawrence and Epicocity (the latter in their directorial debut) from a script by Hideki Sonada, Anthony and Joe Russo, Rachel Tietz, and Seth Cuddeback, the film centers around the characters from the aforementioned franchises and series duking it out in a battle for freedom while contending with many foes along the way, with one of them planning to unleash the demon Dark Gaia. The film features a gargantuan ensemble cast consisting of Sarah Natochenny, Ikue Ōtani, Haven Paschall, Mike Liscio Jr., Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld, Michelle Knotz, Jimmy Zoppi, Lisa Ortiz, Catrin Lloyd Bollard, Will Arnett, Sean Schemmel, John Krasinski, Elizabeth Banks, Dwayne Johnson