NBCUniversal Japan is lining up a lot of great but mostly forgotten box sets for the fall season this year and a new one that’s now set is for the 1975 series Gamba no Bouken. Being struck from a new print of the master positive for the HD master, the twenty-six episode series and movie box set is slated for a December 26th, 2014 release priced at 39,800 yen. No extras are listed for the feature but it will come with a new 52 page booklet that will delve into the project some.
The series is one of those quieter pieces of anime history that never gets attention overseas due to its limited distribution. The show came from Osamu Dezaki as the overall director while working with Yoshio Takeuchi and Hideo Takayashi on scripts and episode direction. Both have a wide range of credits over the years with Takeuchi being the chief animation director and an episode director on Space Adventure Cobra while Takayashi worked on scripts for Maison Ikkoku and Master Keaton and a lot of Onii-sama e… His later works included Rainbow, RideBack and Strawberry Panic among others.
Plot concept: An adventurous wild mouse called Gamba travels with his friends to see the ocean but he finds an injured mouse and hears about the violence of white ferret Noroi. Gamba decides to help the mice suffering under Noroi’s tyranny.
[Source: Gamba no Bouken BD-Box]
Hi Chris, do you know if the boxset includes english subtitles?