Young Love and Time-Travel Teams up in 2022 Movie, The Tunnel to Summer

Time travel and young love, can the combination get any better? The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbye, is sure to be a smashing hit anime movie next year.


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From Summer Wars to The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, several record-breaking movies have given us the sweet taste of a young love blossoming in a mind-boggling situation.

Will the upcoming film be able to take over these blockbusters?

The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbye is an anime movie that will be released in 2022. Although a definite date hasn’t been announced yet, more details are expected soon.

【preliminary report】

“Tunnel to summer, goodbye exit”

(Author: Hachimoku Mei Illustration: Kukka)

In the summer of 2022

Theatrical animation will be released!

#夏トン)

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An illustration by Kukka, the novel’s illustrator, shows the female protagonist Anzu Hanaki. The film will feature her and Tono Kaoru as the leads.

What stands before them is a tunnel that takes years of your life in return for giving you your heart’s desire. The payback of this adventure is too heavy, will the teens realize it too late?

Studio CLAP is animating the movie. Tomohisa Taguchi is its director, and he has previously worked on Kino’s Journey, Akudama Drive, and other anime.

Young Love & Time-Travel Teams up in 2022 Movie, The Tunnel to Summer
The Tunnel to Summer | Source: Crunchyroll

The original novel by Mokune Hachi and Kukka, which is inspiring the movie, has also received a manga adaptation.

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Seven Seas Entertainment has licensed both the novel and the manga for overseas readers. The light novel and manga will be released in English in North America in July 2022.

The upcoming movie will give us a thrilling journey through time. With protagonists who have their own secrets to keep, it might be one hell of a time-traveling adventure.

About The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbye

The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbye is a light novel by Mokune Hachi and Kukka. It has received stage plays and a manga adaptation. Studio CLAP is animating a film inspired by it.

The plot focuses on Tono Kaoru, who discovers a tunnel that can give you what your heart desires. In exchange, it demands years of your life. Tono wants back his sister who had died five years ago, but just as he was going to enter the tunnel, he encounters his classmate, Anzu Hanaki.

Source: Shogakukan

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