ENGLISH DUBS FOR “FRUITS BASKET -PRELUDE-” AND “FAIRY TAIL DRAGON CRY” ARRIVE ON CRUNCHYROLL IN OCTOBER 2022

Crunchyroll will close out its weekly summer movie programming schedule on October 6 with Fruits Basket -prelude- and Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry coming to the anime streaming service in English dubbed formats.

Fruits Basket -prelude- received a special event run, distributed by Crunchyroll, premiering for the first time in theaters outside Japan in North America and the United Kingdom this past summer. It is a prequel film to the award-winning 2019 anime series Fruits Basket, which is based on the award-winning shoujo manga of the same name, written and illustrated by Natsuki Takaya. 

Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry debuted theatrically in 2017 worldwide with a special event run in North America by Funimation. The film takes place between the last two story arcs of the series within Fairy Tail Final Season, which is based on the popular manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. 

Since August, Crunchyroll has been adding new anime movies to its platform every week, including JUJUTSU KAISEN 0, Katsuhiro Otomo’s AKIRA, Makoto Shinkai’s your name., Mamoru Hosoda’s Wolf Children, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and The Boy and the Beast, as well as Afro Samurai: Resurrection, Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, The Stranger by the Shore, Sword of the Stranger, ODDTAXI In the Woods, Sing a Bit of Harmony, and and Naoyoshi Shiotani’s PSYCHO-PASS Sinners of the System film trilogy. New movie drops will continue on through October.