Grief of the Corsola

Grief of the Corsola is a 2024 anime fantasy war drama film based on and serving as a prequel to the Pokémon anime created by Satoshi Tajiri, Junichi Masuda and Ken Sugimori and set during a fictionalised version of World War II, making this the first Pokémon film to be set in and inspired by real-life events. Produced by The Pokémon Company in association with various companies from most of the countries involved in World War II, among said companies including British company Jagged Edge Productions, American film studio Skydance Media, renowned Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli, and German mini-major film studio Constantin Film just to name quite a few, and distributed by Lionsgate and Toho, the film is directed by Tetsuo Yajima from a screenplay by Riko Sakaguchi, Anthony and Joe Russo, Rachel Tietz, and Yoshiaki Nishimura again just to name a few, and is the twenty-fourth film in the Pokémon franchise and the prequel to the anime as a whole. It is also the first Pokémon film to not feature Ash Ketchum as the protagonist. Instead, the protagonist is Esalia Mizujina, a young Japanese-American woman sent out to fight in World War II following the attack on Pearl Harbor, only to come face-to-face with the bigger picture. The ensemble voice cast includes Kimiko Glenn, Ken Watanabe, Sakura Ando, Sugimori, Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ken Jeong, Oliver Masucci, Michael Kessler, Stephan Grossman, Tom Hanks, Viggo Mortensen, Scott Chambers, and David Attenborough among much, much more.