Goldfish Warning! The Movie: Journey to Inachu Mountain

Goldfish Warning! The Movie: Journey to Inachu Mountain is an 2009 Japanese animated adventure comedy-drama film based on Neko Nekobe's manga and original 1992 anime series Goldfish Warning! and it's sequel Shin Goldfish Warning!. It was produced by Toei Animation and distributed by Toei Company in Japan. It was made for the original manga's 20th anniversary and serves as both the continuation and series finale to both of the original manga & anime series and sequel anime series.
Goldfish Warning! The Movie: Journey to Inachu Mountain was theatrically released in Japan on April 24, 2009. An limited manga version was published in Nakayoshi from July to August 2009, also made for Nakayoshi's 55th anniversary.
==Plot==
When Inaka no Chugakkō is in danger of being shut down due to debt problems just as Wapiko and her friends graduate, the pressure is put on Chitose and the Student Council more than ever. One day, Wapiko accidentally wrecks a picture frame while cleaning the owner's office and finds a map to the treasure of Inachu Mountain, which could be what Chitose needs to save her school. So they embark on a journey to the mountain, but not before Yurika and Takahiro join in as they want to get their hands on the treasure first, make Tokai no Gakuen the most popular, greatest and richest school of them all and finally put Inaka no Chugakkō along with her rival Chitose to shame. While on the path to the mountain, Wapiko suddenly reunites with her thought-to-be-long-lost mother, Wakiko who forces her and her friends to join her on a quest to stop an evil threat that could not only threaten Wapiko and her family, but also the fate of Inaka no Chugakkō as we know it.
==Cast==
* Mika Kanai as Wapiko
*Manaka Iwami as Gyopi
*Yumi Takada as Chitose
*Yoku Shioya as Shūichi
*Nobuo Tobita as Aoi
*Masako Miura as Tamiko
*Masami Kikuchi as Michael
*Shizuka Ishigami as Bunta
*Mariko Kofuda as Akeko
*Miki Narahashi as Wakiko, Wapiko's mother
*Yumi Kakazu as Yurika
*Tsutomu Kashiwakura as Asaba
*Hirohiko Kakegawa as Tanakayama
*Taiki Matsuno as Takahiro
== Production==
After production on Shin Goldfish Warning! ended back in 2007, Junichi Sato expressed interest in making another Goldfish Warning! film but this time, he said he wants the series to go in a direction that has never been done before. He also wants to explore Wapiko's origins as to why she attended the school in the first place. Development would take place over the next few months.
More coming soon!
==Release ==
Goldfish Warning! The Movie: Journey to Inachu Mountain was theatrically released in Japan on April 24, 2009. It was accompanied in theaters by an Uchi no 3 Shimai special 7-minute episode, 3 Sisters' Dream, which was released a month early before it's TV broadcast on June 2 as part of Episode 59 of the original anime. (This was not the only piece of Uchi no 3 Shimai content that would be released theatrically, as 15-minute short film Eiga Uchi no 3 Shimai would also be released 10 years later in theaters on April 26, 2019, as part of Toei Manga Matsuri.)
==Reception==
The film received positive reviews from critics and audiences like, with many fans of both the original and sequel series praising it for ending the series on a high note.
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