The Terra Formars series debuted last year to mixed results from fans in terms of an adaptation of the original work, but it’s still a show that has a decent bit of potential for home video release. While Viz Media picked up the North American rights awhile ago and we haven’t heard anything on that front yet, we learned back in May that Manga Entertainment UK picked up the rights to it with plans originally to bring out the first part on August 31st, 2015 on DVD and Blu-ray. That obviously didn’t pan out for several reasons, especially if they wanted to include a dub that hasn’t been finalized for North American release. But now the question came up on Twitter over the weekend and it looks like it may be some time before we see it there.
@Shellum_Lee @MangaUK Hi Lee! #Terraformars is indefinitely delayed. Sorry! It’s a #WarnerBros Japan project. May end up through them.
— Jerome Mazandarani (@ReallyShitTweet) October 17, 2015
Note that Viz Media is the master licensor for the series in North America; with Warner Bros. Japan involved in the Japanese release in a big way, the two companies could be working together to bring this out. Some places will list Viz Media as the licensor because of this.
The series stars Yoshimasa Hosoya as Akari Hizamaru, Hidenobu Kiuchi as Shōkichi Komachi, Shizuka Itou as Michelle, Kaito Ishikawa as Marcos, KENN as Alex, Ai Kayano as Sheila, Daisuke Ono as Keiji Onizuka, Chiaki Takahashi as Kanako Sanjō, Aki Toyosaki as Yaeko Yanasegawa, Tomokazu Sugita as Ichirō Hiruma, Koji Yusa as Adolf Reinhard, Akira Ishida as Joseph, Unshou Ishizuka as Sylvester, Tetsuo Komura as Liu Yiwu, Ayane Sakura as Eva Frost, Kenji Akabane as Ivan Perepelkina, Romi Park as Elena Perepelkina and Toshiyuki Morikawa as Shichisei Hiruma.
The anime adaptation was produced at LIDEN FILMS with Hiroshi Hamasaki directing based on scripts by Shogo Ysukawa. Character designs are being done by Masanori Shino while Satoshi Kimura is doing secondary character design work.
Plot concept: TERRAFORMARS makes its anime debut as a startling work of science fiction and adventure. With Earth becoming increasingly overpopulated, an ambitious plan has been put into place to terraform Mars using mold and cockroaches. Nearly 500 years after the plan, a mission to Mars, Annex 1, is under way to accomplish crucial research into the Virus currently plaguing mankind with the crew members who’ve been injected with various DNA of life on Earth in order to combat the Terraformars, giant humanoid cockroaches.
