While a lot of attention recently has been on the P.A. Works announcement about their first sequel series with Uchouten Kazoku, aka The Eccentric Family, we do have Bandai Visual set to bring the show out on Blu-ray in Japan in box set form once again – albeit without English subtitles this time, it seems. The new set is scheduled for March 24th, 2017 and is priced at 18,000 yen for the thirteen episode run. Ahead of that, they’ve now brought out the first TV spot to promote the release.
The first season was directed by Masayuki Yoshihara based on the series composition by Shotaro Suga. THe character designs were done by Kousuke Kawazura based on the illustrations from Koji Kumeta in the novel from Tomihiko Morimi. Kousuke Kawazura serves as the chief animation director.
The main Japanese case includes Takahiro Sakurai as Yasaburō Shimogamo, Ayane Sakura as Kaisei, Bon Ishihara as Sōichirō Shimogamo, Hideyuki Umezu as Akadama-sensei, Hiroyuki Yoshino as Yajirō Shimogamo, Junichi Suwabe as Yaichirō Shimogamo, Kikuko Inoue as Mother, Kosuke Hatakeyama as Ginkaku, Mai Nakahara as Yashirō Shimogamo, Mamiko Noto as Benten and Nobuo Tobita as Sōun Ebisugawa.
NIS America licensed and released the first season.
Plot concept: In modern day Kyoto, humans live in the city, tengus take to the sky, and tanukis roam the earth. One such tanuki is Yasaburo, the third son of Soichiro Shimogamo, famed tanuki leader who met his end far too early at the hands of a group of humans and their year-end banquet hot pot. Yasaburo has since embraced his “fool’s blood” and strives for a happy, carefree life. But between taking care of his old tengu master Akadama-sensei, avoiding the life-threatening advances of the beautiful human Benten, dealing with his dangerously stupid twin cousins, and avoiding becoming a hot pot himself in the next year-end banquet, the young tanuki has his proverbial work cut out for him!
