Announced as a license acquisition back in May, the details have surfaced for what Media Blasters will be doing with Yamibou. The series is being released as Yamibo: Darkness, The Hat, and Travelers of the Books and will debut on October 22nd, 2013 with all thirteen episodes in one collection. The release will be subtitled onliny and will be priced at $29.98 to compensate for that. The thirteen episode series originally ran in the fall of 2003 and came from Studio Deen. The original work was supported by a short manga that ran during the same period by Root with artwork by Aya Sakurai.
Plot concept: Hatsuki is a highschool student living with her sister, Hatsumi, who she has a huge crush on. On Hatsumi’s 16th birthday, she is suddenly surrounded by a green light and disappears in front of Hatsuki. She manages to follow Hatsumi with the help of a being resembling a fat baby chick (literally), ending up in a place called “The Great Library”, which is full of different worlds stored in books. Hatsumi wasn’t there, though, so the search for Hatsuki’s great love begins and involves traveling from book to book.
