The summer 2015 anime series Charlotte found a home with an overseas release as Australian distributor Madman Entertainment picked up the rights to it back in November 2016. Originally, they had the first half scheduled for a February 8th, 2017 release but it got bumped a bit before finally landing a June 7th, 2017 release. With that in mind, they’ve now set the release of the second half with an August 15th, 2017 date that has episodes 8 through 12 on separate DVD and Blu-ray releases. They’re priced at $29.95 and $34.95 respectively and will be bilingual like the first.
Check out our review of the series here.
The property is an original work from Jun Maeda and has original character designs provided by Na-Ga, who did the designs for Angel Beats and Little Busters in their original works. The series was animated by P.A. Works. Yoshiyuki Asai directed the series proper and that the character design adaptation were done by Kanami Sekiguchi.
The cast includes Kouki Uchiyama as Yuu Otosaka, Ayane Sakura as Nao Tomori, Takahiro Mizushima as Joujirou Takajou, Maaya Uchida as Nishimori Yusa and Momo Asakura as Ayumi Otosaka.
Lia and Aoi Tada performed the opening and closing songs respectively for the series with original creator Jun Maeda providing the lyrics and the composition for both songs. Background music for the series was done by ZHIEND with Marina Nakamura doing the vocals for it.
Plot concept: A small percentage of adolescents have onsets of special abilities. Yu Otosaka deftly uses an ability that takes over a target’s body for five seconds and gets accepted into a prestigious high school. Just when he is about to start a stable high school life as a popular honor student, a girl named Nao Tomori appears before him. Their encounter reveals the cruel destiny for wielders of special abilities.
