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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)
Genres: drama, romance
Objectionable content: Significant
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: 59 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 13 votes (sub:9, dub:3, raw:1)
 Excellent: 9 votes (sub:8, dub:1)
 Very good: 13 votes (sub:11, dub:2)
 Good: 14 votes (sub:7, dub:6, 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 91 users, rank: #5529 (of 9892)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.915 (Very good), std. dev.: 1.5975, rank: #833 (of 10029)
Weighted mean: 7.893 (Very good), rank: #776 (of 10029) (seen all: 7.89)
Bayesian estimate: 7.818 (Very good−), rank: #659 (of 7584)
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:
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North American Anime, Manga Releases, November 6-12 (Nov 8, 2022)
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Crunchyroll U.K. Home Releases for Q4 Listed (Jul 30, 2022)
Fruits Basket -prelude- Screening in U.K. Cinemas This Wednesday and Thursday (Jul 17, 2022)
Fruits Basket -prelude- Film Opens in Hong Kong on Thursday (Jun 8, 2022)
Crunchyroll Screens Fruits Basket -prelude- Film in N. America, U.K. This Summer (Jun 1, 2022)
Fruits Basket -prelude- Compilation Film's BD Release to Include New 8-Page Manga (Apr 19, 2022)
Fruits Basket -prelude- Compilation Film Earns 130 Million Yen in 1st 18 Days (Mar 8, 2022)
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Film Stays at #1 at Japanese Box Office in 10th Weekend (Updated) (Feb 28, 2022)
Fruits Basket -prelude- Compilation Film Earns 55 Million Yen in 1st 4 Days (Feb 22, 2022)
Live-Action Usogui Drops to #10, Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Film Stays at #1 (Feb 22, 2022)
Fruits Basket -prelude- Compilation Film Earns 33 Million Yen in 1st 2 Days (Feb 20, 2022)
Fruits Basket -prelude- Film Offers New Manga Epilogue to Filmgoers (Jan 21, 2022)
Fruits Basket -prelude- Anime Compilation Film's New Trailer Previews Theme Song (Jan 18, 2022)
Fruits Basket -prelude- Anime Compilation Film Reveals Teaser Trailer, 2nd Visual (Dec 15, 2021)
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Fruits Basket Anime Gets Compilation Film With Prequel, Epilogue Scenes in February (Oct 29, 2021)
Press Releases:
'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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The ANN Aftershow - Is Fruits Basket -prelude- Worth Watching? (Jun 21, 2022)
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Blu-ray + DVD combo
    Fruits Basket -prelude- (BD+DVD) 2022-11-08 (from $26.24)

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)
Kyōko Hyōdō
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
Key Animation:
Airi Haryū
Aki Kumada
Akiko Motoyoshi
Aline Nonose
Ayako Togawa
Ayumi Namiki
Chie Kawaguchi
Fumiko Kon
Hiroe Suzuki
Hiroko Shigekuni
Hitoshi Yoshida
Keiko Fukumoto
Kiho Suzuki
Kumiko Shishido
Kyoko Kametani
Makiko Hayase
Manabu Kushibuchi
Miho Ogawa
Miwako Tobita
Nanako Ninomiya
Saki Hisamatsu
Sawako Shigematsu
Takuma Komata
Tomokazu Shimabukuro
Tomoyuki Kanno
Yasuko Miyazaki
Yoshitsugu Hatano
Yukie Sasaki
Yumi Horie
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 Satō 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
Ryō 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

Adam McArthur
Alex Mai
Amanda Gish
Ben Balmaceda
Brandon Potter
Dani Chambers
Emily Ernst
Erica Muse
Greg Dulcie
Kelsey Maher
Kevin D. Thelwell
Madeline Dorroh
Marianne Bray
Nazeeh Tarsha
R Bruce Elliott
Rachel Robinson
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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