It’s been one month since Furuba the Final ended, and there’s interesting sentence from the site above regarding “The Story of Kyoko and Katsuya”, which will be animated and released in 2022:
Last week, in episode 12, it was announced that Yoshimasa Hosoya had been chosen to voice the character of Tohru's father, Katsuya Honda, and according to the person in charge of the project, there’s a lot of feedbacks they received from fans, who said, “I want to hear more of Katsuya's voice!” and “I'm waiting for more episodes with Kyoko and Katsuya!”, and explained that they had decided to make an anime about the parents' past. Also, the cast and other details of the first stage adaptation in 13 years will be announced later.
So yeah, it’s not supposed to be included in the Final along with Kakeru/Komaki’s connection with Tohru, Ayame/Yuki’s bonding moment, the progress of Yuki/Kyo’s relationship, Yuchi’s moments and Mogeta, Kyoru’s moments before and after they’re dating, Tohru/Rin bonding moment, flashforward of Kurisa (yeah, those are supposed to be in the Final, not to mention butchering the development of the main trio, Akito, Shigure, Rin). However, Japanese fans demanded it to be animated and the anime team decided to make it.
While I’m excited for Kyoko’s backstory to be animated, I wouldn’t call Furuba reboot as a whole “a full anime adaptation” like they promised in the caption before it’s aired: 全編アニメ化/zenpen anime-ka (the entire story is animated) because of the way they handled the Final. There are still many scenes not animated from the later part of the story, it’s like they only put which scene would be animated and cut things here and there, ignoring the consistency compared to previous seasons.
I’ll laugh if they adapt it exactly like ch 90-93 and Kyo still narrates it. It’s possible that his narration will be completely erased, which is a shame. Kyo’s inner thoughts in these chapters are so important because he actually pretended he forgot everything about Kyoko’s accident all this time as shown in this page:
Unlike in the anime when he suddenly remembered it by just looking at the hat. Way to degrade his development, and it’s not the only one. 🤦♀️
As for the rest of the scenes from the manga not animated? I really doubt they’ll make an OVA for them because they’re tied closely to the narrative, unless they decided to redo the entire Final season (or at least starting from ep 5) and this time include most cut scenes and make it consistent and not rushing things.
Just want to say: You deserved for it the anime team, never underestimate the power of the main audiences, which is fans from Japan, both long time and new fans. 😛
And it’s not like I don’t like the reboot, I’m grateful for them to make Furuba until the end, but it’s not like what they promised from the beginning that they wanted to animate the entire story, emphasizing the ‘entire’ word. In the end the reboot is just completed, it’s not fully adapted.
Say what you want about the reboot, the manga is still a definitive version.
Edit: Fixed the translation as I read the newest interviews presenting the fact that movie Prelude had been decided while they’re still working on TV series. I apologize about the change and will post the said interviews soon.
Note: The original post had been made before the contents of the movie were revealed.