Kinema Citrus's 15th anniversary original anime Goodbye, Lara is airing after a July 5 premiere and has a manga adaptation by Citrus creator Saburouta running on Kadokawa's KadoComi platform in October.
Kinema Citrus's 15th anniversary project is an original TV anime, Goodbye, Lara, and it premiered July 5 at 24:30 on Tokyo MX, followed by BS Asahi and YTV, with AT-X also airing it. Crunchyroll streams the series and an English dub. Takushi Koide directs, with Anna Kawahara on scripts. The series is based on The Little Mermaid and follows mermaid princess Lara reviving in Lake Biwa 200 years after her original story.
The production leans on handcraft. The non-credit opening video uses cel animation, a traditional hand-drawn technique, and carries handwritten staff credits. That material arrived about a week into the broadcast run, before the story moved to its manga phase.
In September, the anime's official X account said Goodbye, Lara will get a manga adaptation by Citrus creator Saburouta, running on Kadokawa's KadoComi platform in October. KadoComi is Kadokawa's own platform, and the manga appears in the same season the anime airs rather than months or years later. The two stories together cover one project mid-flight: an original Kinema Citrus anime on air with a companion manga starting in October.
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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.
The non-credit opening video for the original TV anime Goodbye Lara, Kinema Citrus's 15th anniversary project, has been released. The opening uses cel animation, a traditional hand-drawn technique, and features handwritten staff credits. The series is based on The Little Mermaid and follows mermaid princess Lara reviving in Lake Biwa 200 years after her original story.