With the recent release of the movie, Aniplex USA is going back to the original TV series for The Irregular at Magic High School and giving it the complete box set treatment. The set is scheduled for an October 16th, 2018 debut where it’ll have the twenty-six episode run priced at $164.98 – with an on-sale priced of $129.98 through retailers like Right Stuf. The set will be in its original Japanese language only and include extras with Get to Know Magic Studies! #1-7 shorts, Textless Openings, Textless Endings, Trailers, and Commercials. It’s also getting a rigid hard box illustrated by Kana Ishida for it.
The light novel series this is based on has done well since its introduction in the summer of 2011 as there are twenty-six volumes of it so far. The anime adaptation was on the fast track as part of Dengeki Bunko’s 20th-anniversary push to bring more of its materials into the spotlight. The series was directed by Ono Manabu with character designs by Ishida Kana. The animation was produced by Madhouse.
Plot concept: Magic– A century has passed since this concept has been recognized as a formal technology instead of the product of the occult or folklore. The season is spring and it is time for a brand new school year. At the National Magic University First Affiliate High School, A.K.A Magic High School, students are divided into two distinct groups according to their academic performances. The “Bloom,” who demonstrate the highest grades and are enrolled in the “First Course,” and the “Weed,” who have a poor academic record and are enrolled in the “Second Course.” This spring, a very peculiar brother and sister enroll as new students. The brother is an underachiever with some deficiencies and enrolls as a “Weed,” while his younger sister is an honor student, who enrolls as a “Bloom.” The brother, with a somewhat philosophical expression, and the younger sister who holds feelings a little stronger than sibling love for him… Ever since these two have entered through the gates of this prestigious school, the calm campus was beginning to change…
