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

 * Chris Jai Alex
 * Jerry Jewell
 * Robbie Daymond
 * Dorothy Elias-Fahn
 * Christopher Corey Smith
 * David Matranga
 * Sarah Wiedenheft
 * Michael Sinterniklaas
 * Jesse Corti
 * Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld
 * Monica Rial
 * Jason Griffith
 * Amanda Celine Miller

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.

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.

English-language versions
Around the time was being produced, in order to make exporting the film to English-speaking countries easier, the producers created a dub under the direction of Michael Sinterniklaas. The initial English dub of Quincy Forever! only had Steve Blum and Cherami Leigh reprising their roles from The Story of Quincy as Quincy and Sophie, respectively, while every other character who appeared in the show and the movie were re-cast entirely, either with new voice actors or actors who had also appeared in the show. To compensate for the large amount of recasts, NYAV Post hired various Dallas-based voice actors, several of whom had guest starred in The Story of Quincy, to voice various characters. Richard Bailey also reproduced and rewrote the songs in this version. This dub was screened at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2016, several months before the film's release in Japan.

As J.C.Staff was scouting for a company to distribute the film in the United States, there was stiff competition as to who would gain the rights. Bidders for the distribution rights included FUNimation Entertainment (the home video distributor for The Story of Quincy), TWC-Dimension, Roadside Attractions, Bleecker Street, Sentai Filmworks, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions and Eleven Arts. On June 5, 2016, the U.S rights to the film were purchased by Megan Ellison of Annapurna Pictures, who herself was a fan of The Story of Quincy.

Although Annapurna's release of the film was uncut, the company made several different edits to the film. One of the biggest included the sound design, which Annapurna remixed to make it compatible with 7.1 surround sound, with Skywalker Sound handling the post-production for the sound design in this release. James L. Venable composed new music in the Annapurna version supplementing Satoshi Takebe's score. In addition, much of the dialogue was rewritten by William Broyles Jr., Brandon Sawyer and Michael Hitchcock from the original English screenplay. Many voices in the film were also recast, with Nick Offerman, Ed Helms, Kate McKinnon, Zachary Gordon and Mandy Patinkin being added to the cast. Jason Marsden, Sean Hayes, Mark Hamill and Brat Pitt were also brought on to reprise their roles as from The Story of Quincy as Saffron, Louis, Chief Aarons and Reynard Castro, respectively.

Quincy Forever! received a wide release in the United States on April 21, 2017, distributed by Paramount Pictures. Paramount also launched a $10 million marketing campaign for the film, which included partnerships with Motel 6, IHOP, MTV, Church's Chicken and American Express.

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.

Paramount Home Media Distribution released the film on Digital HD, Blu-ray and DVD in the United States on July 11, 2017.

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. The film opened in the United States alongside Unforgettable, Born in China, Phoenix Forgotten, The Promise and Free Fire and was projected to gross around $5 million from 2,047 theaters, the widest release for an anime film in America at the time. It debuted to $5.4 million, on par with projections and finishing 5th at the box office. By the end of the movie's American run, it had grossed $17.6 million at the US 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.