'Fruits Basket -Prelude-' and 'Fairy Tail Dragon Cry' Arrive on Crunchyroll in October 2022

Crunchyroll Closes Out Its Summer Movie Programming
with Heartfelt Fan Favorite Anime Prequel Film

Culver City, California (September 29, 2022) – Crunchyroll will close out its weekly summer movie programming schedule on October 6 with Fruits Basket -prelude- and Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry coming to the anime streaming service both subbed and dubbed.

Fruits Basket -prelude- received a special event run, distributed by Crunchyroll, premiering for the first time in theaters outside Japan in North America and the United Kingdom this past summer. It is a prequel film to the award-winning 2019 anime series Fruits Basket, which is based on the award-winning shoujo manga of the same name, written and illustrated by Natsuki Takaya.

Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry debuted theatrically in 2017 worldwide with a special event run in North America by Funimation. The film takes place between the last two story arcs of the series within Fairy Tail Final Season, which is based on the popular manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima.

Since August, Crunchyroll has been adding new anime movies to its platform every week, including JUJUTSU KAISEN 0, Katsuhiro Ōtomo's AKIRA, Makoto Shinkai's your name., Mamoru Hosoda's Wolf Children, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and The Boy and The Beast, as well as Afro Samurai: Resurrection, Josee, The Tiger and the Fish, The Stranger by the Shore, Sword of the Stranger, ODDTAXI In the Woods, Sing a Bit of Harmony, and and Naoyoshi Shiotani's Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System film trilogy. New movie drops will continue on through October.

Crunchyroll will continue adding more movies to its service in the future.

See below for the full list of details for each film coming to Crunchyroll this October:

OCTOBER 6

Fruits Basket -prelude- (TMS Entertainment and 8PAN)

Before there was Tohru and Kyo – there was Katsuya and Kyoko. Discover the turbulent beginning of Tohru's mom's dark past, and the man who breathed new hope into her. Watch the evolution of their love story and the birth of the Honda family, as this chapter completes the full adaptation of the heartwarming Fruits Basket story. (Official Trailer) – Directed by Yoshihide Ibata

*Dub languages will include: English
*Sub languages will include: English, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Castilian Spanish

Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (A-1 Pictures)

Enter the Dragon Cry, a magic staff rumored to possess the power to destroy the world. For years it's been safely guarded in the Kingdom of Fiore until Zash, a traitor of Fiore, steals it. Luckily, the task of recovering the Dragon Cry is the perfect job for the wizards of Fairy Tail - enter Natsu, Lucy, Erza, Gray, Wendy, and the cats! (Official Trailer) – Directed by Tatsuma Minamikawa

*Dub languages will include: English
*Sub languages will include: English

*** Schedule subject to change. Subbed and Dubbed languages may vary per title ***

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