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English-subbed trailer streamed for anime inspired by Alice in Wonderland
Crunchyroll revealed last week that it will screen Dive in Wonderland (Fushigi no Kuni de Alice to -Dive in Wonderland-, or With Alice in Wonderland: Dive in Wonderland-), which the staff initially described as Japan’s first anime film adaptation of Lewis Carroll‘s classic children’s novel Alice in Wonderland, in select theaters for one day only on November 16 as part of its “Crunchyroll Anime Nights” program dedicated to screening anime across the U.S. The company streamed an English-subtitled trailer:
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The film’s story centers on Rise, a modern-day girl who somehow stumbles into Wonderland and meets Alice.
The film opened in August 2025.
The cast includes:
- Nanoka Hara as Lise
- Maika Pugh as Alice
- Mayu Matsuoka as The Queen of Hearts
- Kōji Yamamoto as The Mad Hatter
- Norito Yashima as The March Hare
- Ryūichi Kosugi as Humpty Dumpty
- Kappei Yamaguchi as The White Rabbit
- Toshiyuki Morikawa as The Cheshire Cat
- Takahiro Yamamoto as The Caterpillar
- Shōtarō Mamiya as Kou Urai, a butler that invites Rise to Wonderland
- Keiko Toda as Ayako Azumino, Rise’s grandmother
- Subaru Kimura as Tweedledum
- Ayumu Murase as Tweedledee
- Yūki Ono as Yamane
- Natsuki Hanae as a mysterious apple-shaped character
Toshiya Shinohara (Black Butler, A Lull in the Sea, The aquatope on white sand) directed the film at P.A. Works. Yūko Kakihara (Blue Box, Urusei Yatsura 2022, The aquatope on white sand) penned the script. Shochiku and TBS are listed as production coordinators.
Other staff members include:
- Original Character Design: Tomomi Takada, Jun Suzuki, Hiranko Konohana
- Character Design: Kousuke Kawazura, Mio Fujishima
- Animation Directors: Kanami Sekiguchi, Kousuke Kawazura
- Concept Design: Kiyoshi Arai
- Art Director: Kentarō Akiyama
- Compositing Director of Photography: Tomo Namiki
- Color Key Artist: Miho Tanaka
- 3D Director: Haruki Suzuki
- Editing: Ayumi Takahashi
- Sound Director: Haru Yamada
- Sound Effects: Naoto Yamatani
- Sound Production: Sound Team Don Juan
- Music: kotringo
SEKAI NO OWARI perform the film’s theme song “Zukan” (Guidebook).
Lewis Carroll‘s Alice in Wonderland book centers on a girl named Alice, who one day follows a talking white rabbit into a rabbit hole, and ends up in a strange Wonderland where she has surreal encounters with its mercurial rules and denizens. The book has become one of the most referenced works of literature in pop culture, with elements and motifs appearing in virtually every medium, including anime, manga, and video games.
The book previously inspired Nippon Animation and Apollo Film‘s 1983-1984 television anime adaptation.
