Goodbye, Lara ED Animation Now on YouTube

Goodbye, Lara‘s ending animation has been released on the KADOKAWAanime YouTube channel, joining its opening counterpart that was uploaded last week.

The ending animation was storyboarded and unit directed by Moaang, who storyboarded Akebi’s Sailor Uniform‘s seventh episode and the ending animation of Blue Archive The Animation (the latter with cooperation from fellow animator Myoun). It’s set to Hana Hope‘s “Hearts Glow,” which will be released digitally on July 22.

Goodbye, Lara started its broadcast on July 5 at 24:30 JST (effectively July 6 at 00:30) and is currently at three episodes. 200 years before the main story, the titular mermaid Lara fell in love with a human prince and consumed a witch’s potion to become human herself. However, Lara’s failure to find true love results in a bubbly death. Now, Lara has returned to life in modern-day Shiga, Japan, where she ends up as housemates with teenage boxer Mari Otsu. 

Crunchyroll is streaming the anime, which is the 15th anniversary project of animation production studio Kinema Citrus and the series directorial debut of Revue Starlight assistant director Takushi Koide.  

Production credits (those with asterisks had the same role on the Goodbye, Lara pilot film)

• *Director: Takushi Koide (assistant director, revue costume designer, weapon designer, and more on Revue Starlight and its movie sequel)
• *Character designer: Shiori Tani (Revue Starlight prop designer, Revue Starlight the Movie co-main animator and animation director et al.)
• Series composer: Anna Kawahara (Ashita, Watashi wa Dareka no Kanojo live-action series co-writer)
• *Background art director: studio Pablo’s Mari Fujino (Sonny Boy)
• *Color designer: Miyao Yamashita (Made in Abyss)
• Color designer: Rika Aizawa
• *Compositing director: Kazuto Izumita (Revue Starlight)
• Music composer: yuma yamaguchi (Undead Murder Farce) 
• Animation production: Kinema Citrus

Cast

• Hana Hishikawa as Lara
• Nana Kawaishi as Mari Otsu
• Rika Fukami as Grace
• Ayumu Murase as Luca
• Tomohiro Ono as Yoshiya Otsu
• Mitsuaki Madono as Makoto Otsu
• Nanae Sumitomo as Ema Otsu
• Masaki Terasoma as Rowan

Source: KADOKAWAanime YouTube channel