German distributor Nipponart is the latest one to get involved with the summer 2016 anime series Servamp as they’ve now acquired the rights to it for their region. The distributor doesn’t have a firm date at the moment but is intending to bring it out int he first half of 2017 on both DVD and Blu-ray. No word if it’ll get a German language dub or not is available yet.
The staff for the series has Ittou Kou serving as the chief director while Hideaki Nakano will serve as the director. The series composition is done by Kenji Konuta while Junko Yamanaka is handling the character designs. The series is being animated at Brains Base.
The Japanese cast includes Takuma Terashima as Mahiru Shirota, Yuuki Kaji as Kuro, Hiro Shimono as Misono Arisuin, Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Tsubaki, Kazuma Horie as Snow Lily, Ryohei Kimura as Lawless, Nobunaga Shimazaki as Todoroki, Yuuki Ono as Tetsu, Ayumu Murase as Hugh the Dark Algernon, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Belkia, Kenjiro Tsuda as JeJe, Tetsuya Kakihara as Mikuni Alicein and Yuuto Suzuki as Sakuya Watanuki. This basically brings the cast from the drama CDs into the anime adaptation for the primary characters.
OLDCODEX is performing the opening theme song Deal with while Takuma Terashima is performing the ending theme song sunlight avenue.
The work from Strike Tanaka began back in the summer of 2011 and has nine volumes to its name with Seven Seas Entertainment releasing them in North America.
Plot concept: The story revolves around a 16-year-old boy (15 at the beginning of the story) named Mahiru Shirota who likes simple things and dislikes difficult things. One day, he picks up a stray black cat he finds in the middle of the road and gives it the name Kuro (which literally translates into “black”). From this moment on, a contract between the servamp Sleepy Ash and Mahiru is formed, and Mahiru is pulled into the Servamp war between the seven deadly Servamps and their eighth sibling Tsubaki.
[Source: Servamp]
