The fall 2015 anime series Asterisk War has production partner Aniplex Japan for its home video release side of things and some new details have surfaced. The fourth volume, due out on March 23rd, 2016, now has its cover artwork available to check out. The twelve episode series will be getting a standard six-volume release and all volumes have now had their basic details revealed instead of monthly updates. Both formats are being released as limited editions with CDs included for all installments where the DVDs are priced at 6,480 yen each and the Blu-ray’s at 7,560 yen each.
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 eight volumes of the light novel “academy battle” action series have been published in Japan, through Media Factory.
The 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: Amagiri Ayato arrives at The Academy City on water, Rikka—famous for the integrated battle entertainment, “Star Wars Festival”—at the invitation of the Student Council President of the Seidoukan Academy, Claudia. Soon after he incurs the wrath of the “Petalblaze Witch”, Julis, and ends up in a duel with her.
| Date | Volume | Extras |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12/23/15 | CD, web previews, clean opening, clean closing, audio commentary |
| 2 | 01/27/16 | CD, web previews, audio commentary, clean closing |
| 3 | 02/24/16 | CD, web previews, audio commentary |
| 4 | 03/23/16 | CD, web previews, audio commentary |
| 5 | 04/27/16 | CD, web previews, audio commentary |
| 6 | 05/25/16 | CD, web previews, audio commentary |
[Source: The Asterisk War]
