The summer 2016 anime series Time Travel Girl: Mari Waka to 8-nin no Kagakusha-tachi was one of a very small number of shows that didn’t reveal its home video release plans close to the actual debut of the series. That’s now changed as the twelve episode series is getting produced as a single box set when it lands on Blu-ray only. The show is getting three different editions so fans can get exactly what they want when it arrives on December 3rd, 2016. The first is the series box set, the soundtrack CD, and a setting book, which you can see to the right, that will be priced at 19,800 yen. The second edition is the show with the CD at 19,000 yen, and the third is just the show itself at 16,500 yen. Extras include director introductions, promos, commercial and the, clean opening and closing.
Funimation simulcast the series.
The project has set Osamu Yamasaki as the director while also working on the series composition. With Kiyonobu Itakura credited as the original creator, Rion Kujo is on board as the assistant director while Mitsutaka Hirota, Yoshiko Nakamura, Sachiko Kubo and Osamu Yamasaki are on board with doing scripting work. Takashi Kobayashi is listed as the chief animation director as well as the character designer.
The cast includes Aki Toyosaki as Mari Hayase, Minako Kotobuki as Waka Mizushiro, Ryuuichi Kijima as Shun Mizushiro, Toshiyuki Morikawa as Eiji Hayase, Tomohiro Tsuboi as Shou Mikage, Haruka Tomatsu as Kei Hayase, Yui Fukuo as Rika Hayase, Kikuko Inoue as Rei Mizushiro, Daiki Yamashita as Fuuta Ichikawa and Ayahi Takagaki as Satsuki Kuroki.
Plot concept: Time Travel Shoujo is based on a 1983 book titled Jishaku to Denki no Hatsumei Hakken Monogatari by Japanese educator Kiyonobu Itakura. It is part of the Hatsumei Hakken Monogatari Zenshuu series which describes the story of various scientific discoveries and inventions throughout history. The 1983 book focuses on discoveries related to magnetism and electricity.
[Source: Time Travel Girl]
