Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva

Anime movie
title	Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
Original title	レイトン教授と永遠の歌姫
transcription	Reiton-kyōju to Eien no Utahime
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
Publishing year	2009
Studio	PA Works , OLM Team Kamei
length	99 minutes
genre	Adventure, mystery
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Masakazu Hashimoto
idea	Akihiro Hino
script	Akihiro Hino (designer) ; Aya Matsui
production	Masakazu Kubo , Kazuya Hamana
music	Tomohito Nishiura
synchronization

Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva ( Jap. レイトン教授と永遠の歌姫, Reiton-Kyoju to Eien no Utahime ) is a movie for Professor Layton - video game series of the game developer Level-5 . The plot of the anime film animated by the studios PA Works and OLM Team Kamei can be classified between the fourth and fifth part of the series.

In Germany, the film was released directly on DVD and Blu-ray on October 22, 2010 and broadcast on Super RTL on November 20, 2010 . Officially there was no German theatrical release, but the film was shown on November 14, 2010 in selected CinemaxX cinemas as part of the KlexXi Sause event series .

action

Professor Layton and his apprentice Luke Triton are inside the clock tower at the Palace of Westminster and must solve a puzzle in order to escape from the tower. Then they can solve their current case and announce who stole the world-famous bell of the tower. The perpetrator turns out to be Don Paolo , an opponent of Layton, who fled in a self-made flying machine. Back in the professor's office, as they put on a record, Luke and the professor remember a case they experienced together about three years ago.

At that time, Professor Layton received a letter from his former student Janice Quatlane in which Janice talks about her friend Melina Whistler , who died a year ago but has now reappeared as a seven-year-old child. The girl says that she has attained "eternal youth and immortality". Tickets for the opera in which Janice is playing reach the professor together with the letter. To solve this puzzle and help Janice, Layton, Luke, and the professor's assistant, Emmy Altava , head to the Crown Petone Theater , a seaside opera house that plays the opera.

The latest opera by the composer Oswald Whistler , the father of Melina, is about an old legend of the old Kingdom of Ambrosia, whose inhabitants have achieved immortality because, in great mourning for their dead queen, they never wanted to die until she comes back to life.

After the performance, which received only moderate applause, a mysterious, masked man appeared on the stage announcing that a game was about to begin, the winner of which would achieve eternal life. This game is also the reason why most of the visitors came to the opera. Luke and the professor were the only ones who didn't know anything about this game. Panic breaks out in the hall when the stranger announces that those who will lose will also lose their lives. When trying to flee, several people fell through trap doors. When Inspector Grosky , who happened to be in the hall, tries to arrest the masked stranger, the latter turns out to be a puppet and throws the inspector through the opening ceiling of the theater into the sea.

In the meantime, the theater is transformed into a huge ship and sails out to sea. Layton and everyone else are trapped and must take part in the game. Viewers suspect Whistler of having something to do with the matter. He says he only wrote the opera at the request of a stranger. Layton and Luke now run into Janice, who tells them that the girl she told about has disappeared. Meanwhile, the girl pushes Grosky overboard to prevent him from ruining everything. At the same time the voice answers again and poses the first riddle. People should gather under the elder they see. Layton realizes that it's the stars in the sky. He, Luke, Janice and about 20 other people remain in the auditorium. The rest of the people disappear through trap doors. In the second riddle, people are supposed to gather under the largest crown they can find on the ship.

Since the ship itself is in the shape of a crown, Layton, Luke, Janice, Whistler and six other people drop into two lifeboats. Including a successful crime writer , a former soccer player , a wealthy widow , an amateur historian , Amelia Ruth (a student and British chess master) and Melina . The ship explodes shortly afterwards and the simple lifeboats turn into motor boats that steer for a course on their own. During the boat trip, Layton Oswald Whistler speaks to Melina. Whistler says the little girl only shares the same first name and is his adopted daughter. Janice apologizes to Layton, but she still wants to find out what this is all about.

At the same time, Emmy wants to solve the disappearance of a little girl named Nina in London . When she happened to be at Dr. Schrader is, she hears on the news about the disappearance of the theater and the appearance of all the missing spectators in a rescue submarine. With a double-decker airplane she sets off in search of Layton and Luke and rescues Grosky from the sea. He tells her what happened and that there was a second rescue submarine. Immediately they set off in the direction it has taken.

Layton and the others, meanwhile, are stranded on a lonely island with strange towers jutting out of the sea from the area. Marco Brock, the amateur historian, recognizes the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Ambrosia. While the people are resting and eating the food provided, Luke wants to speak to Melina. This reacts rejecting and hums a melody that the sea should have taught her. Before Luke Layton can address it, wolves attack. On their escape they reach a river, behind which there is a strange castle. The third puzzle is to escape the wolves and reach the castle safely. Layton, Luke and Janice can lock themselves in a cage and also save four other people. Whistler and the remaining three people are captured.

Layton, Luke and Janice hide in a tool shed on their escape from the wolves. With the things they find there, they build a mini helicopter with which they manage to escape the wolves and reach the castle. There they meet the other four survivors. While they are standing on a terrace, the next puzzle sounds. You are asked to choose one of four doors that lead to the king's bedroom. Luke recognizes the right door and walks away with Janice, Amelia and Marco. Layton leaves her alone to check something, but is stalked by Starbuck and Raidley, the soccer player and rich widow, believing he is always right. But both fall in a trap. Layton barely escapes and finds a bedroom that must belong to Melina. The rest find the king's bedroom, where Descole , Layton's archenemy , suddenly appears and has Amelie kidnapped. Luke and Janice are captured. Meanwhile, Layton meets little Melina and realizes that she must have a split personality. Layton calms her down with a melody written on a music book at the piano and realizes who the girl really is.

Luke and Janice, meanwhile, manage to escape their guards with the help of Emmy and Grosky. Layton meets the group and Emmy recognizes the girl as the missing Nina. Layton now understands the context and rushes off with the others to save Amelia. This meets with Descole and Whistler, who is responsible for everything himself. With his musical instrument, the detragan, he wants to implant the memories of his dead daughter Melina in Amelia, just as he did with Nina rather incorrectly. Layton appears on time and confronts both of them with the fact that they do not cause eternal life, but rather the death of a person. Whistler just wanted to keep his daughter alive, but Descole wanted to play this game with people. When Whistler tries to take Luke due to lack of time, the machine stops working because the key is suddenly missing. Layton reveals Janice to be a thief because she is not Janice, but Melina.

Janice should one day be made Melina too; but the transformation failed. However, Janice left her body to Melina so that she could survive and lead a healthy life after her long illness. Melina felt guilty, however, for not wanting to destroy Janice's life. At the same time, she hired Professor Layton to stop her father from turning more girls into her. When she tries to convince her father that it is time to let go, Descole kidnaps her. This reveals his true plan. He had taken advantage of Whistler in need of Melina. She is the only one who knows the "Song of the Sea" by heart. Together with the song of the stars, which can be seen as notes on Ambrosia's coat of arms, he wants to "bring the kingdom back to life" in order to use it for himself. Melina reluctantly sings to save her friends while Descole plays. There is a violent earthquake , but nothing else happens. Layton recognizes on the coat of arms that there is a third song if you turn it around: the "Song of the Sun".

While the enraged Descole is running amok on the island with Detragan, who has been transformed into a robot "Detragigant", Layton and Luke can get to him and Melina with their self-made helicopter. Layton plays the songs of the stars and the sun while Melina sings. In fact, ruins and a second island now rise out of the water. Ambrosia wakes up again. Descole is angry and tries to attack Layton, destroying the control of the Detragiganten. The giant robot collapses. Descole crashes and is gone. Layton, Luke and Melina can save themselves by jumping from the robot.

Melina tells her father that she doesn't want to go on living in order to redeem Janice and that her father can finally go on living. Whistler doesn't want that and bursts into tears. Melina says goodbye and Janice's own self takes possession of her body again. She says, dismayed, that Melina is no longer with them. Before he is arrested, Whistler asks if he can play one last time to hear the song again. Janice sings it, and it starts to rain small, blue, sparkling stars from the sky. Layton and Luke conclude that the kingdom itself was never immortal, it just fell into an eternal slumber. Luke says he thinks Melina was a reincarnation of Queen Ambrosias.

Back in the present, three years later, Janice comes over to pick up the professor and Luke for an appointment while the song ends on the record player.

synchronization

role	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )	German speaker
Professor Hershel Layton	Yō Ōizumi	Mario Hassert
Luke Triton	Maki Horikita	Sophia Langert
Janice Quatlane	Nana Mizuki	Kristina von Weltzien
Dr. Schröder (jap.) / Dr. Schrader (German)	Rokurō Naya	Jürgen Neumann
Aroma (Japanese) / Flora Reinhold (German)	Mamiko Noto	Marianne Graffam
Inspector Chelmey	Shirō Saitō	Jürgen Wolters
Oswald Whistler	Iemasa Kayumi	Jan Spitzer
Jean Descole	Atsurō Watabe	Stefan Gossler
Emmy Altava	Saki Aibu	Linn MacKenzie
Marco Brock	Kenta Miyake	Frank Ciazynski
Pierre Starbuck	Kōichi Yamadera	Rainer Doering
Miseria (Japanese) / Celia Raidley (German)	Kikuko Inoue	Claudia Gáldy
Nina	Sumire Morohoshi	Katie Pflegehar
Clamp Grosky	Hōchū Ōtsuka	Gerald Paradise
Amelia Ruth	Megumi Toyoguchi	Shalin Rogall
Curtis O'Donnell	Shōzō Iizuka	Axel Lutter

The (Japanese) closing song Eien no Utahime 永遠の歌姫 was sung by Nana Mizuki ( 水樹奈々 ).

reception

In Japan, the film landed in sixth place in the box office in its opening week. In total, the film grossed around 589 million yen by the end of 2010.

Jerry Bruckheimer's blockbuster Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time […] shows that video game film adaptations are often dubious monuments to the quality of the games . A completely different form of film implementation seems to have the necessary heart: Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva, who draws on the loving style of the DS games. "

- www.planetds.de