How many episodes are in Goodbye, Lara?

Goodbye, Lara has 12 episodes in this listed season.

When does Goodbye, Lara premiere?

Goodbye, Lara premieres on 2026-07-05.

Is Goodbye, Lara a new series?

Goodbye, Lara is a new series (Season 1).

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Goodbye, Lara(2026)

Also known as Sayonara Lara • さよララ • SayoLara

Archived · Tokyo MX

TV-1412 eps

S01

DramaFantasyRomanceAnime

ON AIR: JUL 5Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

Goodbye, Lara is a slow-burn animated romance built around a price already paid. The mermaid at its center gave up her voice and her magical nature two centuries ago, and that sacrifice cannot be reversed; what remains is a single, final window to find love or lose her place in the human world permanently. The animation carries a melancholy quietness, favoring longing over spectacle.

Two hundred years of waiting compress into what feels like borrowed time, and that compression shapes every scene. Love here is not a reward but a condition, fragile and urgent, and the show treats it with the gravity that implies. Quiet dread runs beneath the romance rather than surfacing as confrontation, giving the story an ache that lingers between episodes.

Best for

bittersweet mermaid romance, irreversible magic cost and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Fantasy

Commitment

Season 1 · 12 episodes

Where

Tokyo MX

Official Premise

A mermaid princess once traded her voice and magical nature for a chance at human love, but the spell carried a terrible cost. Two centuries later, she awakens in a Japanese lake with one final opportunity to find love and secure her place in the human world.

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Strongest Match

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation and Goodbye, Lara both lean into romance that costs something real, not just feelings. In the reincarnation journey, family pressure and betrayal keep landing hard, while quiet moments of care and longing build toward consequences that cannot be shrugged off.

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Why this pick

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