Sentai Filmworks picked up Ebiten for North American distribution awhile ago and we’re close to the April 1st, 2014 DVD and Blu-ray release of the show, which will be in its original Japanese with English subtitles. But ahead of that, it begins its run on The Anime Network On Demand today, which brings a wide range of shows to folks who can access it all from the ease of their cable provider. The show ran originally for ten episodes with an additional OVA.
You can watch it online now though at The Anime Network if you don’t have the On Demand service.
The home video release will come with a few extras that will make it worth picking up for fans of it: Heart Throb Hot Springs, Japanese Commercials and Promos, Music Videos, Clean Opening Animation, Clean Closing Animation.
Plot concept: Take one group of rabid fan girls with tenuous grips on reality, toss out all rules of proper social behavior, mix them together in a basement with more twisted anime parodies and allusions than you can shake a schtick at, and what do you get? Well, besides a recipe for disaster, if borderline delusional Kyoko Todayama is in what passes for charge, you get the Asstronomy Club, where mayhem rules and the wall between the real world and total fantasy shatters at least once every five minutes!
And as if things weren’t wild enough, let’s throw in a “boys love” manga fanatic who always seems to end up in her underwear, a maid on a secret mission, a ruthless arch enemy whose goal is to have the club disbanded, and a cat as the faculty adviser! And then there’s Itsuki, who inexplicably still thinks this is a serious astronomy club. To be fair, some of the members do seem to be robots/aliens and/or from outer space. One thing’s for certain though: the Student Council will most definitely not approve of what happens!
Contains episodes 1-10 plus the OVA.
