Peppermint Anime is bringing out the first anime DVD and Blu-ray releases for The Asterisk War on February 23rd, 2018 and they’ve got the first dub clip for it now live. The set will bring out the first six episodes of the series as it’s being done as four-volume release that we’ve seen in other territories. It’ll feature the Japanese and German languages in PCM stereo with German subtitles included. Extras include six bonus clips.
The property comes from the light novel series The Asterisk War: The Academy City of the Water (Gakusen Toshi Asterisk). Written by Yuu Miyazaki, with art by illustrator okiura, so far ten volumes of the light novel “academy battle” action series have been published in Japan, through Media Factory. Yen Press is releasing them and the manga in North America.
The German cast includes Johannes Wolko as Ayato Amagiri, Katharina Iacobescu as Julis-Alexia von Riessfeld, Amira Leisner as Ernesta Kuhne, Ilena Gwisdalla as Haruka Amagiri, Karim El Kammouchi as Eishirou Yabuki, Lara Wurmer as Kirin Toudou, Leslie-Vanessa Lill as Saya Sasamiya, Louis Friedemann Thiele as Ernest Fairclough, Matthias Ransberger as Lester MacPhail, Maximilian Laprell as Dirk Eberwein, Stefanie Dischinger as Camilla Pareto, and Tatjana Pokorny as Claudia Enfield.
The Japanese cast includes Atsushi Tamaru as Ayato Amagiri, Nao Touyama as Claudia Enfield, Ai Kakuma as Julis-Alexia von Riessfeld, Shiori Izawa as Saya Sasamiya, Ari Ozawa as Todo Kirin, Asterisk War Ayato Amagiri, Yūma Uchida as Eishiro Yabuki, Takanori Hoshino as Lester MacPhail, Chinatsu Akasaki as Ernesta Kuhne, Mutsumi Tamura as Camilla Pareto, Yumi Uchiyama as Irene Urzaiz, Juri Nagatsuma as Priscilla Urzaiz and Tomokazu Sugita as Dirk Eberwein.
The anime series is produced by A-1 Pictures. Staff involved include chief director Manabu Ono (The Irregular at Magic High School), director Kenji Seto (Wooser’s Hand-to-Mouth Life), with character design and animation direction by Tetusya Kawakami (Nanana’s Buried Treasure), and music by Rasmus Faber (Lagrange – The Flower of Rin-ne).
Plot Concept: Invertia–The astral catastrophe that annihilated many cities in the 20th century also gave birth to a new human race with special powers called the “Genestella.” At the same time, the special element found within the meteors of Invertia facilitated humanity’s technological advancement.
At the academic-city above water Rikka, also known as “Asterisk,” students from each of the six schools at Asterisk prepare for the ultimate battle tournament — known as “Festa.” Seidoukan Academy’s Ayato Amagiri takes up the challenge along with his partner Julis, a.k.a. Glühen Rose, the Witch of the Resplendent Flames. Ayato learns Julis has a big dream to achieve and decides to protect her to the end.
