Goodbye, Lara Anime Gets Manga From Citrus Creator Saburouta
Kadokawa moving a Kinema Citrus original onto its own KadoComi platform in the same season the anime airs shows the manga is being treated as a companion to the broadcast rather than a later spinoff.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
The anime's official X account said Tuesday that Goodbye, Lara will get a manga adaptation by Citrus creator Saburouta, running on Kadokawa's KadoComi platform in October. The Kinema Citrus original anime premiered July 5 at 24:30 on Tokyo MX, then BS Asahi and YTV, and also airs on AT-X. Crunchyroll streams the series and an English dub. Takushi Koide directs, with Anna Kawahara on scripts.
Saburouta, the creator of Citrus, is drawing the adaptation for Kadokawa's KadoComi platform, with an October start. The announcement came from the anime's own X account, which is how the production has been handling news since before the broadcast.
Kinema Citrus' original series is set in Shiga prefecture at Lake Biwa, the hometown of director Takushi Koide. Anna Kawahara oversees series scripts and Shiori Tani designs characters, with Yuma Yamaguchi composing at Kadokawa. Ikimono-gakari performs the opening theme, "Sayonara Lara." Crunchyroll streams the series and an English dub.
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