The fall 2015 anime series Shomin Sample has now found an additional place to call home as Australian distributor Madman Entertainment has picked up the home video rights for it. The series is getting a scaled down version of what Funimation is putting out in North America as this will be a DVD-only release priced at $36.96 when it arrives on April 5th, 2017. It’ll have the commentary, shorts, and the clean opening and closing sequences. The current listing indicates it’s a Japanese language only release but we suspect that’s a typo as the series was dubbed during its simulcast run and Funimation’s edition is bilingual.
The name of the series in Japan is Ore ga Ojousama Gakkou ni “Shomin Sample” Toshite Gets♥Sareta Ken and is based on the light novel series by Takafumi Nanatsuki which began back in 2011 and included character designs and illustrations by Gekka Uru. The series will was directed by Masato Jinbo based on scripts by Kento Shimoyama and animated at Silver Link.
The cast includes Atsushi Tamaru as Kimito Kagurazaka, Yu Serizawa as Aika Tenkubashi, Rika Tachibana as Reiko Arisugawa, Yuki Kuwahara as Hakua Shinodome, Chitose Morinaga as Karen Jinryo, Saori Onishi as Miyuki Kujou and Yumi Hara as Eri Hara.
Plot concept: In a hidden school surrounded by mountains, young ladies of good families are taught everything a high class lady needs to know. They are also completely cut off from the outside world, keeping them sheltered and innocent. However, a problem has come up recently– more and more graduates are failing to cope with the modern world after graduation. To deal with this problem, they’ve decided to kidnap a male commoner student, and enroll him as a student. They hope that this will be a gentle way to introduce the girls to the outside world.
Kagurazaka Kimito is chosen for this dubious honor, mostly because he seems utterly average. However, the school leaders also seem to have concluded he’s a homosexual with a muscle fetish. When Kimito hears that the alternative may be castration (to protect the girls’ purity), he eagerly plays along with this misconception. Now he’ll just have to survive the attention of many high class young ladies that are completely out of touch with the world!
