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Kinema Citrus Unveils Videos, More Staff for 'Goodbye, Lara,' Ninja Skooler Anime
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Kinema Citrus opened websites for its newly announced original anime projects Goodbye, Lara (Sayonara Lara) and Ninja Skooler on Sunday. The website posted English-captioned videos and more staff members for both projects, which commemorate the studio's 15th anniversary.
Staff:
- Storyboard/Director: Takushi Koide
- Animation Director: Shiori Tani
- Water Effect Artist: Naoki Yoshibe
- Logo Designer: YUTO HAMA DESIGN
- Graphic Designer: Yūto Hama, Mai Yamaguchi
- Image Board Artists: Shiori Tani, Mon
- Key Animators: Seiichi Akitake, Yūka Inada, Hotaru Kawase, Asuka Kozato, Toshiyuki Satō, Yosuke Sato, Hikaru Sato, Jura, Takasemaru, Mizuki Takahashi, Akira Nishikawa, Hiroto Nishizawa, Kouhei Yano, Ko Yoshinari, Naoki Yoshibe
- In-between Checker: Misa Watanabe
- In-between Checker Assistance: Studio BUS, Min Kyung-ae
- In-betweeners: Gift-o'-Animation (Moeno Ikawa, Yuka Kokubun, Chibaya, Kazuya Nokuo, Hikaru Hatomi, Matsuri Hayama, Mizuki Hori), Studio BUS (Min Kyung-ae, Park Kyung-sook, Min Su-in, Shin Sun-mi, Jang Yun-young, Park onnuri)
- Color Key Artist/Coordinator/Checker: Misao Yamashita
- Finishing: Misao Yamashita, Anitus-Kobe, YOSHIKI Eri, Honda Reiya, Tokio Aika, Nishiwaki Youhei, Studio BUS (Na Jong-ah, Kim seo-young, Kim Jung-hye, Kim Yeon-mi, Kim Eun-kyeoung, Baek Sung-hee, Kim Mi-yeon, Lee Jeong Mi)
- Background Art Director: Mari Fujino
- Background Art: Studio Pablo, Mari Fujino, Ryōki Matsumura
- 3DCG: sankaku△
- Special Effects: Chiemi Irisa
- Compositing Director of Photography: Kazuto Izumita
- Compositing Assistant Director: Akane Ueda
- Composit: T2 Studio, Kazuto Izumita, Akane Ueda
- Editing: Masayuki Kurosawa
- Audito Director/Mixing: Haru Yamada
- Sound Effects: Tsutomu Sukigara
- Voice Over: Umeka Shōji
- Audio Production: Sound Team Donjuan
- Music: Alfredo Sirica
- Music Producer/Director: Hiromitsu Ijima
- Orchestration: Budapest Scoring
- Music by Alfredo Sirica
- Music Produce and Director: Hiromitsu Ijima
- Studio Management: Kōji Sone, Naoko Matsumoto, Michiko Akima, Tomoka Kuwahara, Naruhito Mitsuwaka
- System Management: Takanori Sunaga, Shigeo Miyagi
- Creative Department Management: Kensuke Aoshima, Miyu Inoue
- Translation: Hiromi Hasegawa, Jorge Herrera
- Vehicle Coorporation: Komatsu Tsusho Co., Ltd.
- Producer: Muneki Ogasawara
- Animation Producer/Production Assistant: YOSHIKI Ishikawa
- Setup Production Assistant: Natsuki Moriyama
- Animation Production/Based on concept by: Kinema Citrus
Goodbye, Lara tells a tale similar to Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid. The story follows a mermaid who makes a forbidden wish to be loved by a human. Following her death, she is reborn 200 years later into modern-day Japan in Lake Biwa, where she learns to adjust in a human world. The setting of Lake Biwa is in Shiga prefecture of Japan, which is also where director Takushi Koide's hometown is located.
Staff:
- Supervisor/Director: Shunsuke Takarai
- Character Designer: Hami
- Key Animators: Yuka Kuroda, Franziska van Wulfen, Shunsuke Takarai
- In-between Checker: Aoi Higuchi
- In-between Checker Assistance: Studio BUS, Min Kyung-ae
- In-betweeners: Gift-o'-Animation (Keito Suzuki, Mizuki Hori), Studio BUS (Min Kyung-ae, Park Kyung-sook, Min Su-in, Shin Sun-mi, Jang Yun-young, Park onnuri)
- Color Key Artist/Coordinator/Checker: Hiroaki Kaguchi
- Finishing: Hiroaki Kaguchi, Anitus-Kobe, YOSHIKI Eri, Studio BUS (Na Jong-ah, Kim seo-young, Kim Jung-hye, Kim Yeon-mi, Kim Eun-kyeoung, Baek Sung-hee, Kim Mi-yeon, Lee Jeong Mi)
- Background Art: Hami, Shunsuke Takarai
- Compositing Director of Photography/Editor: Shinichirō Miyazaki
- Sound Director/Mixing: Haru Yamada
- Sound Effects: Tōru Noguchi
- Audio Production: Sound Team Donjuan
- Music: Nanatsukaze(PIKASONIC＆nakotanmaru)
- Studio Management: Kōji Sone, Naoko Matsumoto, Michiko Akima, Tomoka Kuwahara, Naruhito Mitsuwaka
- System Management: Takanori Sunaga, Shigeo Miyagi
- Creative Department Management: Kensuke Aoshima, Miyu Inoue
- Translation: Hiromi Hasegawa, Jorge Herrera
- Vehicle Coorporation: Komatsu Tsusho Co., Ltd.
- Animation Producers: Muneki Ogasawara, Satoshi Wada
- Production Assistant: Satoshi Wada
- Animation Production/Based on concept by: Kinema Citrus
The light-hearted anime follows students at a ninja school.
Kadokawa is a major owner of Kinema Citrus. Kinema Citrus announced in December 2019 that Bushiroad and Kadokawa had each acquired roughly a third of the shares of the studio. Both each acquired 31.8% of the company's shares (thus controlling 63.6% of shares between them), with Kinema Citrus representative director Muneki Ogasawara maintains a 36.4% controlling stake. The capital tie-up allows the three companies to securely and more confidently develop globally targeted intellectual property. The three companies previously announced a comprehensive business partnership in July 2019. The partnership aims to produce a "stable" intellectual property and producing anime content in response to the growing popularity of anime both domestically and abroad.
Source: Kinema Citrus via Ota-Suke
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