Madman Entertainment announced their formal acquisition of the rights to another recent series that they’ll be bringing out on home video in Australia with Dimension W. The project is getting a DVD-only release that was originally solicited to arrive on July 5th, 2017 priced at $59.95 but has now been bumped to a July 19th, 2017 release with no changes beyond that to it. The twelve episode series is likely going to be similar to the North American release when it comes to the extras, which totaled 125 minutes. While the extras are not yet set for Madman’s release, the US release includes the OVA – Do Robots Dream of Bathhouses, W Gate Online – Rose’s Counseling Room, Production Diary, Episode 02 Commentary, Episode 09 Commentary, Promo Videos, Sneak Peak Textless Opening and the Textless Opening & Closing Songs.
The English language production has Zach Bolton and Colleen Clinkenbeard directing based on the scripts from Bonny Clinkenbeard. Brandon Peters serves as the ADR engineer. The cast includes Christopher R. Sabat as Kyomo, Eric Vale as Albert, Jad Saxton as Mira, J. Michael Tatum as Loser, Stephanie Young as Mary, Josh Grelle as Koorogi and Jeremy Schwartz as Shido.
The series is based on the manga by Yuji Iwahara which has its eighth volume coming out recently. The anime is directed by Kanta Kamei based on scripts by Shoutarou Suga and character designs by Tokuyuki Matsutake. It was animated at Studio 3Hz.
The Japanese cast includes Daisuke Ono as Kyouma Mabuchi, Reina Ueda as Mira Yurisaki, Akira Ishida as Albert Schumann, Eri Suzuki as Elizabeth Greenhough-Smith and Kimiko Saito as Marie.
With the opening song Genesis from STEREO DIVE FOUNDATION, the series premiered on January 10th, 2016 in Japan.
Plot concept: In the year 2071, the world’s energy problems seem solved by a network of cross-dimensional electric-field inductors- “coils” -that extract energy from a seemingly infinite source. That source is the W dimension, a fourth plane that exists beyond the X, Y, and Z dimensions. In this world, unofficial “illegal” coils harness powers that the police can’t hope to counter. Dealing with these coils is the job of coil-hating repo man Kyoma, whose run-in with the unique coil android Mira leads the two to form a reluctant partnership.
