With the announcement last November that the twenty-four episode series Romeo x Juliet was going to get a new home video release in Japan, albeit DVD only, the cover artwork and packaging for it has been released. Originally airing back in 2007 and released by FUNimation in North America, Frontier Works is bringing the show out again in Japan in a new Memorial Box Set Edition. Sadly, it’s on DVD only and priced at 16,000 yen. It’s scheduled to be released on July 6th, 2016 with the complete series in one collection. It’s being produced across three DVDs and will have its extras announced at a later time.
Plot concept: In the floating continent of Neo Verona, the Montague family seized control and murdered every member of the Capulet family with the exception of Capulet’s daughter, Juliet Fiammata Asto Capulet. 14 years later, Juliet and the remnants of Capulet’s retainers live hidden from the iron fist of the Montague family. Juliet has long forgotten the murder of her family or her identity, and cross dresses as Odin and the town’s hero of justice, “Red Whirlwind.” A sudden escape in her daily escapades leads her to meet Romeo Candorebanto Montague, the kind son of the tyrannical Montague. Destiny has been set as these two individuals soon to be “star-crossed lovers” are cruelly toyed with by fate in the midst of war. Loosely based on the play by William Shakespeare.
[Source: Romeo x Juliet]