thatshamelessyaoishipper:

Johnny Weir was at Crunchyroll Expo again this year, and again had his own panel (thread from the panel here), and probably the most important take away here is that the rumors from a few months ago were true and that he is indeed involved in the Yoi movie, Ice Adolescence, and he’s even met Kubo herself. Also, considering that he talked about “big people being involved”, I think we can assume that the rumors about Jeffrey Buttle creating something for the movie (most likely choreography) were also true.

That being said, keep in mind Johnny probably only did the choreo/voice work for the movie, he’s not closely involved with the project so his release date estimations are, well, just that – estimations. It’ll likely be the animation that will take the longest and it’s impossible to say how long that may take – the Stammi Vicino scene from episode 1 apparently took them 3 months to animate, and we can probably expect a similar level of quality here. The main questions is whether their time/resource management has improved since 2016, but again, that’s impossible to say for now. All we know is that the movie is supposed to come out in 2019, but the lack of a specific date is probably proof that they simply aren’t close enough to the finish line yet to commit and say “Yes, this will come out on this day in perfect cinematic quality that you would expect.” As we near closer to 2019, more news will come and I think the release date will soon become apparent. For now, all we have is patience and Johnny’s justified hype.