Fruits Basket: Prelude is coming to US theaters — watch the first trailer now

Crunchyroll has launched a brand new trailer for Fruits Basket: Prelude, a prequel film primarily based on the favored romance anime of the identical identify. The trailer teases the rebellious, tormented lifetime of gang member Kyoko Honda, and her subsequent romance with Katsuya Honda. Along with releasing a brand new trailer, Crunchyroll introduced that each the subbed and dubbed variations of the movie will play in choose film theaters in the USA on June 25, 28, and 29.

The film takes place earlier than the occasions of the tv collection and portrays the romance between Tohru Honda’s mother and father, Kyoko Honda and Katsuya Honda, earlier than their premature deaths. The trailer reveals the embattled Kyoko and her fraught involvement with a biker gang. We see her act out in anger, however then she meets Katsuya and the pair clutch fingers in a dewy, romantic seashore scene.

Yoshihide Ibata, who directed the newest tv reboot of Fruits Basket, is returning to direct the movie, with animation help supplied by TMS Leisure and 8PAN. The main roles of Kyoko and Katsuya will probably be performed by Miyuki Sawashiro and Yoshimasa Hosoya for the Japanese-language model, and Lydia Mackay and J. Michael Tatum for the English dub, respectively.

Fruits Basket is a well-liked romance anime primarily based on the shoujo manga by Natsuki Takaya. It follows endearing high-school pupil Tohru Honda, as she tries to free the Sohma household from a curse that transforms them into animals in the event that they’re hugged by a member of the other intercourse. Whereas the primary collection is a beloved touchstone of the shojo style, the story of the film is controversial with followers as a result of it depicts a romantic relationship between Kyoko and her trainer, Katsuya.

If you happen to’d wish to catch the story on the massive display, tickets are scheduled to go on sale Friday, June 3. In the meantime, the complete anime collection is out there to stream on Crunchyroll now.