The story is set in the human realm (Tokyo's Shibuya ward) and the bakemono realm ("Shibutenmachi"). In these two worlds which must not intersect, there lives a lonely boy and a lonely bakemono. One day, the boy gets lost in the bakemono world, becomes the disciple of the bakemono Kumatetsu, and is renamed Kyuuta.

(Source: Anime News Network)

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Studios

• Studio Chizu

Staff

• Gen Fukunaga — Executive Producer (English)
• Mike McFarland — ADR Director (English)
• Justin Cook — Producer (English)
• Mamoru Hosoda — Director, Original Creator
• Takeshi Koike — Key Animation
• Masahiko Kubo — Key Animation
• Hideki Hamasu — Key Animation
• Massimiliano Alto — ADR Director (Italian)
• Fabrizio Mazzotta — ADR Script (Italian)
• Ayako Hata — Key Animation
• Shinji Ootsuka — Key Animation
• Takashi Oomori — Art Director
• Takaaki Yamashita — Animation Director, Character Design
• Steven J. Simmons — Translator (English)
• Kiyoshi Sameshima — Background Art
• Genki Kawamura — Producer
• Mr. Children — Theme Song Performance
• Michael Harcourt — Producer (English)
• Masakatsu Takagi — Music
• Bonny Clinkenbeard — ADR Script (English)