The spring 2016 anime series Mayoiga, known as The Lost Village with its simulcast, is getting its home video release in Japan from Pony Canyon. with the first volume arriving in just a few days, the cover artwork and first look at the packaging and pack-ins has arrived. The distributor has now set the plans for the show where it’ll be getting a six-volume release that begins on July 6th, 2016. The Blu-ray releases are priced at 6,800 yen each while the DVD releases are priced at 5,800 yen each. Check out the chart below for the full slate of dates and known extras at this time.
The show has Tsutomu Mizushima as the director working from the series composition from Mari Okada. Character designs were done by Naomi Ide for this original work with Diomedea handling the animation production.
The cast includes Koudai Sakai as Mitsumune, Yuuka Aika as Masaki, Taku Yashiro as Hayato, Kaoru Sakura as Koharun, Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Valkana, Hiromi Igarashi as Lion, Ayaka Shimizu as Maimai, Ai Kakuma as Love-pon, Kousuke Miyoshi as Love-pon, Yoshiaki Hasegawa as Yura Mikage and Konomi Tada as Nanko.
Plot concept: 30 young men and women who came together on a shady bus tour. The tour’s destination: an elusive, and possibly non-existent village called Nanakimura. In Nanakimura, one can lead a utopian existence, free of the world’s obstacles… or so it was rumored. The bus headed deep into the mountains, carrying 30 people each harboring their own expectations and wounds in their hearts… What they had arrived to was an uninhabited village with the lingering faint scents of life, even though it was falling apart. Just what is the truth of Nanakimura?
| Volume | Date | Extras |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 07/06/16 | Booklet, Promo, Commercials |
| 2 | 08/03/16 | |
| 3 | 09/07/16 | |
| 4 | 10/05/16 | |
| 5 | 11/02/16 | |
| 6 | 12/07/16 |
[Source: Mayoiga]
