The protagonist of this story, Suzu, is a 17-year old high school girl living with her father in a rural town of Kochi — their town is a textbook definition of depopulation in the Japanese countryside. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world, “U,” and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of U’s eyes are fixed on Belle (Suzu), when one day the mysterious and infamous Dragon-like figure appears before her.

(Source: Official Site)

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Studios

• Studio Chizu

Staff

• Mamoru Hosoda — Director, Original Creator, Script
• Takaaki Yamashita — Chief Animation Director ("U" segments)
• Nobutaka Ike — Art Director
• Hiroyuki Aoyama — Chief Animation Director ("real world" segments)
• Youhei Shimozawa — CG Director
• Ludvig Forssell — Music
• Taisei Iwasaki — Music, Music Director
• Ryou Horibe — CG Director
• Yuuta Bandou — Music
• ermhoi — Insert Song Performance
• Millennium Parade — Theme Song Performance (OP)