At the stage greeting event held at the Cine Libre Ikebukuro theater in Tokyo on August 21, Shigeyoshi Tsukahara announced that his independent animation project KURAYUKABA had gotten a green light for production of the entire film, which was expected to be 40-minute long.
Following the pilot film that has been streamed on YouTube, a prologue to the full-length film, made with the funds from the second crowdfunding round, has been screened at the Cine Libre Ikebukuro theater in Tokyo for two weeks since August 13, along with Tsukahara’s past films.
The crowdfunding campaign for the project raised a total of 15,700,364 (142,600 USD) yen through two crowdfunding campaigns in 2018 and 2020.