{"id":16292,"date":"2021-03-08T04:34:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T12:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=16292"},"modified":"2021-03-08T19:04:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T03:04:32","slug":"little-busters-spin-off-kud-wafter-gets-new-trailer-may-14-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2021\/03\/08\/little-busters-spin-off-kud-wafter-gets-new-trailer-may-14-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Busters! Spin-Off Kud Wafter Gets New Trailer, May 14 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Kud Wafter<\/em>, an anime movie spin-off of the Little Busters! series, has received a new trailer. The movie will premiere in Japan on May 14.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The <em>Kud Wafter <\/em>anime, which was produced to celebrate Little Busters!&#8217;s 10th anniversary, was funded via crowdfunding, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/otakumode.com\/news\/59f6c87bb5eb03dc2b2ea18a\/Kud-Wafter-Anime-International-Crowdfunding-Project-Smashes-Goal-in-5-Days!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">domestic campaign<\/a> on Campfire and an international campaign for English translation and &#8220;worldwide distribution of crowdfunding rewards&#8221; on <a href=\"https:\/\/otakumode.com\/projects\/kudwafter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tokyo Otaku Mode<\/a>. The trailer&#8217;s YouTube description states that the anime mustered 78 million yen (~USD 718,244) in crowdfunding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u5287\u5834\u7248\u300e\u30af\u30c9\u308f\u3075\u305f\u30fc\u300f\u30ed\u30f3\u30b0PV\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/48VuXwv2o8I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The staff includes Kentarou Suzuki (<em>Little Busters!<\/em> and <em>Little Busters! Refrain<\/em> episode director, <em>Angels of Death<\/em>) as director, Kai (<em>Rewrite<\/em> assistant scriptwriter) as scriptwriter, Haruka Iizuka (<em>Horimiya<\/em>) as character designer, Masateru Tanigawa (<em>The Quintessential Quintuplets<\/em> animation director) as chief animation director, Kyousuke Ishikawa (<em>Little Busters!<\/em>) as color designer, Eiji Iwase (<em>Tamayomi<\/em>) as art director, Takahiro Akatsuki (<em>Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?<\/em>) and Yuki Hirose (<em>Skate-Leading Stars<\/em>) as photography directors, and Satoshi Motoyama (<em>Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki<\/em>) as sound director. Key and Visual Arts are in charge of the music, while J.C Staff is in charge of the animation production.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Most of the cast from <em>Little Busters!<\/em> are reprising their roles in <em>Kud Wafter<\/em>. As with the second season, <em>Refrain<\/em>, the role of Mio Nishizono will be played by Shiho Kawaragi instead of Yuiko Tatsumi (who played the role in the first season <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2012-08-17\/little-busters-anime-replaces-shiho-kawaragi-with-yuiko-tatstumi-in-cast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">due to Kawaragi&#8217;s pregnancy at the time<\/a>). Meanwhile, the spin-off will also introduce new characters like Yuuki Himuro (Mikumikumi) and Shiina Arizuki (Nanae Nakano).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Kud Wafter<\/em> is based on the 2010 visual novel of the same name by Key. According to the Tokyo Otaku Mode crowdfunding page, the movie will be 40 to 50 minutes long. The story is described as:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Welcome to an alternate version of Little Busters! The field trip ended without incident, and Kudryavka Noumi and Riki Naoe are now a couple.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Due to an issue with the boys&#8217; dorm renovation, Riia is left without anywhere to stay over summer vacation. He&#8217;s at a loss until Kud tells him&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m, um, still looking for a roommate&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Thus begins Riki&#8217;s summer with Kud, which brings them all sorts of new missions. What impact will these experiences leave on them&#8230;?&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2019-03-26\/kud-wafter-anime-delayed-by-1-year-with-director-change\/.145035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it was announced<\/a>\u00a0that shipments for the anime would be delayed, and that Suzuki would replace Yoshiki Yamakawa, who directed both seasons of <em>Little Busters!<\/em>, as director.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Source: VISUAL ARTS Japan YouTube channel<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kud Wafter, an anime movie spin-off of the Little Busters! series, has received a new trailer. The movie will premiere in Japan on May 14.\u00a0 The Kud Wafter anime, which was produced to celebrate Little Busters!&#8217;s 10th anniversary, was funded via crowdfunding, with a domestic campaign on Campfire and an international campaign for English translation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":16299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,1625,97,2134,1627,2132,2130,2135,2133],"class_list":{"0":"post-16292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-anime","8":"tag-anime","9":"tag-anime-adaptation","10":"tag-anime-movie","12":"tag-jc-staff","13":"tag-key","14":"tag-little-busters","15":"tag-visual-arts","16":"tag-visual-novel"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/kudwafter_trailerthumbnail.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-4eM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16292"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16328,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292\/revisions\/16328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}