Sanatsu draws the manga to launch on April 5
The April issue of Mag Garden’s Monthly Comic Garden magazine revealed on Tuesday that Shigeyoshi Tsukahara and Twiflo Kuramerukagari’s new spinoff anime series is inspiring a manga adaptation (lower left pictured below). below) will premiere in the magazine’s next issue on April 5. Sanatsu is drawing the manga.
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The anime series Kurayukaba and its spin-off Kuramerukagari will premiere in Japan on April 12. Crunchyroll will stream both series this spring.
Kurayukaba won Best Animated Film in the Audience Award category of the 27th annual Fantasia International Film Festival in August. The film is being screened in competition at this year’s Niigata International Animation Film Festival on March 15-20.
Staff describes Kuramerukagari:
This is a story that brings people and a town together. A coal mining town crowded with small-scale excavators, commonly known as “Hakoniwa”. In this maze-like town that changes daily, there is a girl named Kagari who runs a map-making business and a boy named Yuya who dreams of escaping from”Hakoniwa”. In the end, the two, along with the town’s peculiar residents, face a plot that shakes the entire town. The fate of “Hakoniwa” depends on Kagari’s drawings on the map.
Tsukahara is credited as the film’s original writer, screenwriter, and director. Ryohgo Narita (Baccano!, Durarara!!) is credited with the original idea. Team OneOne will produce the animation. The film stars Ayane Sakura as Kagari. Kuramerukagari is the opening film for this year’s Niigata International Animation Festival on March 15. Masayoshi Ōishi performed the film’s theme song”Bokura no Hakoniwa”.
The Kurayukaba project’s first crowdfunding campaign ran from December 2018 to February 2019 to fund the pilot film. The campaign raised 6,901,864 yen (about 63,000 USD) from 397 backers: 276% of 2,500,000 yen (about 22,100 USD). The campaign reached its stretch goal of 4,000,000 yen (about US$35,300) to create a one-minute video (the original goal was for a 30-second video).
Kuramerukagari adapted from the short novel by Ryohgo Narita is offered to project backers at the “Rental Shop” level (12,000 yen, or about US$110).
Twin Engine Motion Gallery’s official crowdfunding campaign for the film launched in April 2020 and aims to raise 20 million yen (about $188,000 USD) to fund a feature-length film at least. 40 minutes. The campaign ended in August 2020 with an amount of 8,798,500 yen (about 79,513 USD).
Source: April issue of Comic Garden Monthly and website