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, Shizuka Itō, 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 and 20th Century Fox Japan on April 16, 2016. In the United States, the film had it's theatrical premiere on August 25, 2016 and was released in selected theaters the next day by Eleven Arts. In the English version, Steve Blum and Cherami Leigh reprise their roles from The Story of Quincy as Quincy and Princess Sophie, respectively.

Plot
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Additional Voices

 * Chris Jai Alex
 * Dave Mallow
 * Robbie Daymond
 * Dorothy Elias-Fahn
 * Christopher Corey Smith
 * Kira Buckland
 * Michael Sinterniklaas
 * Jesse Corti
 * Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld
 * Jason Griffith
 * Amanda Celine Miller

Development
After the release of Last Stand: A Story of Quincy Movie in 2012, LIVE Entertainment reliquished their license to the Quincy characters back to Kodansha, Ltd. though they still retained the rights to The Story of Quincy. 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. Later that year, it was announced that 20th Century Fox would distribute the film in Japan in partnership with The KlockWorx. 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 through 20th Century Fox Japan 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. It was also confirmed that the distribution rights to the film for international territories had been presold to various other companies such as Eleven Arts (United States), Anime Limited (United Kingdom), Madman Entertainment (Australia), Universum Film (Germany), among others.

Premiere
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. UK anime distributor Anime Limited commissioned an English dub of the film to NYAV Post, which opened in a limited release in the United Kingdom on August 5, 2016 and was later released in the United States two weeks later in a joint distribution effort between Eleven Arts and 20th Century Fox. The English dubbed version features Steve Blum and Cherami Leigh reprising their roles from The Story of Quincy as Quincy and Sophie, respectively.

Home Media
On November 8, 2016, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released the film on DVD, Blu-ray and digital in the United States. The Blu-ray release contains bonus interviews with the English voice cast, while both the Blu-ray and DVD contain a featurette on the making of the English dub and some deleted scenes. As the scenes were cut before production on the English dub began, the deleted scenes are presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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.

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.

Critical Response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 74% based on 152 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 "B" on an A+ to F scale.