Kyoto Animation’s “Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid” theatrical version “Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid is Afraid of the Lonely Dragon” (tentative translation, original name: Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid) is confirmed to be released in Japan on June 27, 2025. Released, the official has released the premiere promotional video and key visual.
“Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid” is adapted from the manga of the same name by the followers of the Cool Cult. The TV animation will launch its first and second seasons in 2017 and 2021 respectively. It focuses on cute characters and light-hearted and funny plots. It describes an ordinary office worker named Kobayashi who has an inexplicable insistence on his maid. One day when he was drunk, he rescued a dragon named Doro and invited Doro to live with her. In order to repay her kindness, Duolu put on a maid uniform and lived with Xiao Lin…
The theatrical version will focus on the baby dragon “Kana Kamui”. One day, a mysterious visitor suddenly came to Xiaolin’s house. He turned out to be Kang Na’s biological father! The happy daily lives of people and dragons may be threatened.
The main dubbing cast is the same as the TV animation, with Yuki Takada playing Emma, Minami Takahashi playing Lucoa, Daisuke Ono playing Fafnir, Yuichi Nakamura playing Makoto Takitani, Hidemi Kato playing Riko Saikawa, and Natsori Ishihara. Played as Shouta Masato. Tomomi Reuchi, the original voice actress of Iruru, has retired from the industry in 2022 and will be replaced by Shiori Sugiura.
credits
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Series Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Script: Yuka Yamada
Character Design and Chief Animation Supervisor: Mirai Kadowaki
Art Director: Shingo Kasai
Color design: Naomi Takahashi
Tool setting: Hiroshi Karata
Director of Photography: Hiroki Ueda
3D Director: Ton Yamamoto
Music production: Lantis Heart Company
Animation production: Kyoto Animation
Produced by: Dragon Life Improvement Committee
Exhibited by: Shochiku
Voice actor
Kangna: Long Rope Maria
Kobayashi: Mutsuko Tamura
Boro: Yuki Kuwabara
Emma: Takada Yuki
Lucoa: Takahashi Minami
Houno: Daisuke Ono
Makoto Takitani: Yuichi Nakamura
Riko Saikawa: Emiri Kato
Shota Mado: Kaori Ishihara
Italian-Russian: Shiori Sugiura