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Fruits Basket -prelude- (movie)

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Alternative title:

Kyо̄ko to Katsuya no Monogatari (Japanese)

フルーツバスケット－prelude－ (Japanese)

Plot Summary: The movie revisits the end of Fruits Basket - The Final with flashbacks to the previous seasons. After that, the story focuses on how Kyoko and Katsuya Honda met and became a couple.

User Ratings: 54 ratings have been given [details]

Masterpiece: 13 votes (sub:9, dub:3, raw:1)

Excellent: 8 votes (sub:7, dub:1)

Very good: 11 votes (sub:9, dub:2)

Good: 12 votes (sub:6, dub:5, others:1

1 Polish subtitled

)

Decent: 6 votes (sub:4, dub:1, others:1

1 Spanish subtitled

)

So-so: 3 votes (sub:3)

Not really good: -

Weak: 1 vote (sub:1)

Bad: -

Awful: -

Worst ever: -

Seen in part or in whole by 82 users, rank: #5581 (of 9585)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.926 (Very good), std. dev.: 1.6539, rank: #788 (of 9708)
Weighted mean: 7.893 (Very good), rank: #744 (of 9708) (seen all: 7.89)
Bayesian estimate: 7.807 (Very good−), rank: #654 (of 7289)

Running time: 88 minutes

Vintage: 2022-02-18

Premiere date:

2022-02-18 (Japan)

Ending Theme:

"Niji to Kite" by ohashiTrio

Insert song:

"Umareru Negai" by Uta·Aly

Official website:

「フルーツバスケット－prelude－」 (Japanese)

Review:

Fruits Basket -prelude- (Jun 20, 2022)

News: Show: 10 +7 +1 unverified

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'Fruits Basket -Prelude-' and 'Fairy Tail Dragon Cry' Arrive on Crunchyroll in October 2022 (Sep 29, 2022)

Crunchyroll Releases “Fruits Basket -Prelude-” in Movie Theaters This Summer (Jun 3, 2022)

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Blu-ray + DVD combo

Fruits Basket -prelude- (BD+DVD) 2022-11-08 (from $20.81)

Japanese staff

Japanese cast

Director: Yoshihide Ibata

Screenplay: Taku Kishimoto

Storyboard: Yoshihide Ibata

Music: Masaru Yokoyama

Original creator: Natsuki Takaya

Character Design: Masaru Shindō

Art Director:
Tamako Kamiyama
Yōko Koyama

Chief Animation Director:
Hiroko Shigekuni
Kyoko Kametani
Yoshiko Takemoto

Animation Director:
Airi Haryū
Akiko Motoyoshi
Chie Kawaguchi
Nanako Ninomiya
Yoshio Mizumura
Yumi Horie

Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa

Director of Photography: Baek Ryun Chae

Producer:
Adam Zehner
Aoi Taniguchi
Fumi Yazaki
Ippei Takemura
Keita Shutō
Miku Yamauchi
Yuya Yoshida

2D Materials:
Nanaha Kawaguchi (STEREOTYPE)
Ryota Shinoki (STEREOTYPE)

2nd Key Animation:
Ayaka Inoue (WAO WORLD)
Hanayo Kōsaka (ASHI PRODUCTIONS)
Haruka Kaneko (P.R.A)
Hiromi Iida (Hadashipro)
Hitomi Shimodaira (SIGNAL.MD)
Hitoshi Katsura (STUDIO GIMLET)
Ho Se Lee
Ichigo Yuki (STUDIO CL)
Kanako Inoue
Kasumi Ikeda (Animocaramel)
Kōhei Takahashi (STUDIO CL)
Kurumi Kishida (PINE JAM)
Kyoko Hyodo
Mana Kuwabara (P.R.A)
Marika Shiota (WAO WORLD)
Masae Mukai
Mihoko Maekawa
Miyuki Nakagawa (STUDIO GIMLET)
Nabiki Shōda (LineFarm)
Niya Nanaogi (STUDIO CL)
Rie Hisaki (Studio Boomerang)
Satomi Igarashi
Shiho Nakazawa (PINE JAM)
Shizuku Ishii (LineFarm)
Shota Nakayama (STUDIO GIMLET)
Tamae Suzuki (LineFarm)
Tatsurō Arai (STUDIO GUSH)
Tomoba Abe (ASHI PRODUCTIONS)
Tomoko Fukushima
Tomomi Morishita (Snowlight staff)
Uni Matsui (ASHI PRODUCTIONS)
Xiao Can Chen (ASHI PRODUCTIONS)
Yasuhiro Tsuchiya (LineFarm)
Yukari Miyoshi
Yūta Suzuki (WAO WORLD)

3D Animation: Lazaro Suarez (TERAEFFECT)

3D Layouts:
Lazaro Suarez (TERAEFFECT)
Yusuke Kikuchi
Yūta Fujii

3DCG Effects: Yu Nagasaki

3DCG Support: Yusuke Kikuchi

Animation producer: Genki Ito

Assistant producer: Saki Ito

Associate producer:
Hideyuki Takada
Masayoshi Akima
Tadashi Suzuki
Tomokazu Iizumi

Background Art:
Bao Van Tran (STUDIO SEY)
Kanon Kizu (STUDIO EASTER)
Kōhei Imai (STUDIO EASTER)
Mari Ishikawa (STUDIO EASTER)
Mariko Akiyama (HIJIRI)
Meiko Nakajima (STUDIO UNI)
Meng Long Yang (STUDIO EASTER)
Miki Kobayashi (STUDIO EASTER)
Miku Oura (STUDIO EASTER)
Miyuki Onodera (HIJIRI)
Miyuki Shimura (STUDIO EASTER)
Momoyo Iwata (STUDIO EASTER)
Nguyen Thi Mai (STUDIO SEY)
Nozomi Katori (STUDIO EASTER)
Ren Sekiguchi (STUDIO EASTER)
Rie Sonehara (STUDIO EASTER)
Seon Mi Hwang (STUDIO SEY)
Sō Senoo (STUDIO EASTER)
Takuzi Jizomoto (HIJIRI)
Thi Thu Ha Pham (STUDIO SEY)
Truc Suong Nguyen (STUDIO SEY)
Van Truong Dang (STUDIO SEY)

Background Art Design: Yūta Fujii

Background Art Design Support:
Tomoyuki Aoki
Yusuke Kikuchi

Cat Design: Kayoko Ishikawa

Chief Supervisor: Natsuki Takaya

Color design: Mika Sugawara

Costume Design: minatsu

Design Support:
Chie Kawaguchi
Kyoko Kametani
Yoshiko Takemoto

Digital Paint:
Aika Tokio (Wish)
Amane Kamiya (Wish)
Anna Hasegawa (Wish)
Aya Ōtaki (Wish)
Ayane Yokoyama (Wish)
Ayano Suzuki (Wish)
Dames Jennifer (Wish)
Emiko Okui (Wish)
Eri Yoshiki (Wish)
Han Zheng Zhang (Wish)
Haruka Yanatori (Wish)
Haruna Takahashi (Wish)
Hiroko Koyama (Wish)
Hiroshi Koyama (Wish)
Hiroshi Takizawa (Wish)
Izumi Inoue (Wish)
Kōki Imamoto (Wish)
Kosuke Mizusawa (Wish)
Kōta Sudō (Wish)
Miho Ōtake (Wish)
Miku Nishinosono (Wish)
Mina Koyama (Wish)
Momono Misawa (Wish)
Nae Kikuchi (Wish)
Nao Kinoue (Wish)
Naomi Nakamura (Wish)
Reiya Honda (Wish)
Rie Minamisawa (Wish)
Sara Yamazaki (Wish)
Shifumi Usuda (Wish)
Shinya Terashima (Wish)
Shiori Satō (Wish)
Shōko Endō (Wish)
Takaaki Izumi (Wish)
Teruka Tanaka (Wish)
Yang Szu Po (Wish)
Yōhei Nishiwaki (Wish)
Yoko Chiba (Wish)
Yosuke Amamoto (Wish)
Yukari Kunō (Wish)

Editing: Aya Hida

Editing Assistant: Yuka Yamajo

Finishing Manager:
Naoki Ishikawa
Yuu Takahashi

Foley: Yūki Shizuoka

In-Between Check: Satomi Igarashi

Insert Song Arrangement: Masaru Yokoyama

Insert Song Composition: Masaru Yokoyama

Insert Song Lyrics: ENA

Insert Song Performance: Uta·Aly

Literature Manager: Naoki Kuroyanagi

Music producer: Ayako Hashimoto

Official Site Production:
Erika Masato (Kirksville Co., Ltd.)
Hisako Kajiwara (Kirksville Co., Ltd.)
Mana Shiraishi (Kirksville Co., Ltd.)

Paint Check: Hitomi Yamase

Photography:
Bowen Liang (TERAEFFECT)
Chiaki Tokuda (TERAEFFECT)
Shinone Sugihara (TERAEFFECT)
Ying Cheng Liu (TERAEFFECT)
Yue Ma (TERAEFFECT)

Planning:
Colin Decker
Eiji Kanaoka
Hideo Katsumata
Hiroaki Saiki
Hiroyasu Shinohara
Hitoshi Yanagisawa
Rei Marumo
Tomoko Takahashi

Planning Assistant:
Mai Kurachi
Makoto Shiraishi
Takahiro Hasegawa

Production Advancement: Tatsuya Onodera

Production Advancement Assistant: Kenta Nishiyama

Production Committee:
Emiko Iijima
Fukiko Nagumo
Hiroki Tanaka
Hitomi Tanaka
Kanako Takahashi
Kayoko Suzushō
Maki Shiraoka
Maya Sugano
Miho Ikeya
Ryōta Kawamura
Sachiko Doi
Saho Maseki
Shigeki Yamada
Shōko Isono
Yukio Tomioka
Yusuke Wanikawa

Production manager: Shōji Yamaguchi

Promotion Assistance: Satomi Yamaga (Planning OM Co., Ltd.)

Publicity:
Alexandria Norado
Aoi Yamashita
Naomi Sugiura
Noriko Ueda
Rinako Tanaka

Publicity Producer: Naoko Matsuda

PV Production: Miki Takahashi

Recording: Kimitaki Shindo

Recording Assistant: Rioko Sekimata

Setting Production: Ryuichi Sakamoto

Sound Effects: Yuji Furuya

Sound Production Coordinator: Rie Tanaka

Special Effects: Chiemie Irisa

Special TV Series Digest:
Aya Hida
Yoshihide Ibata

Theatrical Sales:
Natsuki Shibasaki
Tomoko Wada

Theatrical Sales Assistant:
Izumi Hyakuta
Yōko Imaizumi

Theme Song Arrangement: Yoshinori Ohashi

Theme Song Assistance: Yume Kataguchi

Theme Song Composition: Yoshinori Ohashi

Theme Song Lyrics: micca

Theme Song Performance: Trio Ōhashi

Video Editing:
Eun Jung Song (Q-TEC,INC.)
Kōji Nakamura (Q-TEC,INC.)

Video Editing Desk: Ryōhei Takeishi

Zodiac Animal Design: Kayoko Ishikawa

Manaka Iwami as Tōru Honda

Miyuki Sawashiro as Kyōko Honda

Nobunaga Shimazaki as Yuki Sōma

Yoshimasa Hosoya as Katsuya Honda

Yūma Uchida as Kyō Sōma

Ken Uo as Katsuya's Father

Maaya Sakamoto as Akito Soma

Makoto Furukawa as Hatsuharu Soma

Megumi Han as Momiji Soma

Satomi Satou as Saki Hanajima

Yūichi Nakamura as Shigure Soma

Ami Matsushima as Woman

Arisa Sakuraba as Woman

Asuna Tomari as Kyo Soma (Young)

Atsuko Yuya as Kyo's Mother

Azusa Tanaka as Woman

Hiroki Maeda as Kyoko's Father

Kanon Amane as Girl

Ken Mizukoshi as Teacher

Masaki Nakanishi as Clerk

Misa Ishii as Kyoko's Mother

Misa Katō as Teacher

Misaki Watada as Girl

Nao Fujita as Delinquent

Ryou Sugisaki as Teacher

Shinnosuke Tokudome as Student

Wataru Katō as Student

Yuna Yoshino as Student

Japanese companies

2nd Key Animation:
animocaramel
Ashi Productions
Line Farm
M.S.J Musashino Production
PINE JAM
PRA
Signal.MD
Snow Light Staff
Studio Boomerang
Studio CL
Studio Gimlet
Studio Gush
Wao World

3D Graphics: Tera Effect

3D Layout: Tera Effect

3DCG Support: QREAZY

Animation Production:
8PAN
TMS Entertainment

Background Art:
Hijiri
Studio Easter
Studio SEY
Studio Uni

Digital Paint: Wish

In-Between Animation:
M.S.J Musashino Production
R.I.C
Studio CL
Wish

Location Assistance: Tokyo Fuchuhigashi High School

Music Assistance: TV Tokyo Music

Music Production: TMS Music

Official Site Production: Kirksville

Photography: Tera Effect

Production: Fruits Basket Production Committee

Promotion Assistance: Planning Om Co., Ltd.

Sound Production: Magic Capsule

English staff

English cast

ADR Director: Caitlin Glass

Translation: Sarah Alys Lindholm

ADR Script: Bonny Clinkenbeard

Producer:
Justin Cook
Michael Harcourt

ADR Engineer:
Benjamin Tehrani
Derric Benavides

ADR Script Supervisor: Bonny Clinkenbeard

Assistant ADR Director: Emi Lo

Assistant producer:
Samantha Herek
Zach Bolton

Blu-Ray Authoring:
Christine Bertolino
John Andreas
Trace Furniss

Blu-Ray Compression: Duncan Yan

Blu-Ray Editor: Jeremy Jimenez

Blu-ray Production Assistant:
Barbara Ross
Sarah Alys Lindholm

Blu-Ray Quality Control:
Jonathan Allen
Kristina Tamplin
Shawn Roetzer

DVD Authoring:
Christine Bertolino
John Andreas
Trace Furniss

DVD Compression: Duncan Yan

DVD Editing: Jeremy Jimenez

DVD Production Assistant:
Barbara Ross
Sarah Alys Lindholm

DVD Quality Control:
Jonathan Allen
Kristina Tamplin
Shawn Roetzer

Lead ADR Engineer: Zachary Davis

Linguistic Asset Manager: Sarah Alys Lindholm

Materials Coordinator: Trenton Jons

Mix Engineer: Andrew Tipps

Production Assistant:
Jordan Dreasher
Victoria Keller

Senior Video Editor:
Daniel Mancilla
Jeremy Jimenez

Subtitling:
Alyssa Tieman
Ashley Hayward
Catherine Stroud
Courtney Petras
Emily Walker
Freddie Arnold
Hailey Tran
Jacklyn Svatek
Jonathan Castleman
Paul Bisnette

Talent Coordination: Tara A. Williams

Video Editing:
Emma Moore
Issa Currie
Josh Tyler

Eric Vale as Yuki Soma

J. Michael Tatum as Katsuya Honda

Jerry Jewell as Kyo Sohma

Laura Bailey as Tohru Honda

Lydia Mackay as Kyoko Honda

Colleen Clinkenbeard as Akito Soma

Doug Jackson as Katsuya's Father

Jad Saxton as Saki Hanajima

John Burgmeier as Shigure Soma

Justin Cook as Hatsuharu Soma

Mikaela Krantz as Momiji Soma

Adam McArthur as Teacher

Alicyn Packard as Kyoko's Mother

Amanda Gish as Student

Brandon Potter as Teacher

Dani Chambers as Student

Emily Ernst as Student

Marianne Bray as
Student
Teacher

Phil Parsons as Kyoko's Father

Suzie Yeung as Young Kyo

Wendy Powell as Kyo's Mother

English companies

Blu-ray Menu Design: Shiny Side Up Creative

Distributor: Madman Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand)

DVD Menu Design: Shiny Side Up Creative

Licensed by: Crunchyroll

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