{"rewrite":{"id":"r_fde52b14476e014b61b6652f","clusterId":"c_b8b7607e7b439fb093105865","slug":"goodbye-lara-anime-gets-manga-from-citrus-creator-saburouta","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Goodbye, Lara Anime Gets Manga From Citrus Creator Saburouta","summary":"The anime's official X account said Tuesday that Goodbye, Lara will get a manga adaptation by Citrus creator Saburouta, running on Kadokawa's KadoComi platform in October. The Kinema Citrus original anime premiered July 5 at 24:30 on Tokyo MX, then BS Asahi and YTV, and also airs on AT-X. Crunchyroll streams the series and an English dub. Takushi Koide directs, with Anna Kawahara on scripts.","whyItMatters":"Kadokawa moving a Kinema Citrus original onto its own KadoComi platform in the same season the anime airs shows the manga is being treated as a companion to the broadcast rather than a later spinoff.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eSaburouta, the creator of Citrus, is drawing the adaptation for Kadokawa\u0026#39;s KadoComi platform, with an October start. The announcement came from the anime\u0026#39;s own X account, which is how the production has been handling news since before the broadcast.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKinema Citrus\u0026#39; original series is set in Shiga prefecture at Lake Biwa, the hometown of director Takushi Koide. Anna Kawahara oversees series scripts and Shiori Tani designs characters, with Yuma Yamaguchi composing at Kadokawa. Ikimono-gakari performs the opening theme, \u0026#34;Sayonara Lara.\u0026#34; Crunchyroll streams the series and an English dub.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Saburouta's KadoComi run begins in October, roughly three months after the Goodbye, Lara anime started airing, so the manga arrives while the show is still mid-broadcast rather than as a pre-launch tie-in.","twitterPost":"Saburouta's adaptation launches on KadoComi in October, landing mid-broadcast rather than ahead of Goodbye, Lara's July 5 premiere.","threadsPost":"Saburouta's KadoComi run starts in October, roughly three months after the Goodbye, Lara anime began on July 5. That timing makes the manga a companion released during the broadcast, not a pre-launch adaptation meant to build an audience before the show airs.","newsletterBlurb":"The Goodbye, Lara anime is getting a manga adaptation drawn by Citrus creator Saburouta, arriving on Kadokawa's KadoComi platform in October. The announcement came from the series' official X account. Kinema Citrus' original anime is directed by Takushi Koide and streams on Crunchyroll alongside an English dub.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-09-15/goodbye-lara-anime-gets-manga/.241817\",\"title\":\"Goodbye, Lara Anime Gets Manga\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4377,"outputTokens":637,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1789502384,"createdAt":"2026-09-15T19:53:53.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-15T19:58:21.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-15T19:58:21.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_b8b7607e7b439fb093105865","canonicalTitle":"News\nGoodbye, Lara Anime Gets Manga","representativeArticleId":"a_07fb810f5356cfb49d6aba73","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[\"Goodbye, Lara\"],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[\"Kinema Citrus\"],\"people\":[\"Saburouta\"],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"anime\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-15T19:00:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-15T19:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-15T19:58:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-09-15/goodbye-lara-anime-gets-manga/.241817","title":"News\nGoodbye, Lara Anime Gets Manga"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":["Goodbye, Lara"],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":[],"studios":["Kinema Citrus"],"people":["Saburouta"],"type":"announcement","domain":"anime","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}