Funimation has the first season of Servamp coming up as a DVD/BD combo release on October 24th, 2017 and after producing a simuldub for it previously they now have the latest clip to show it off. This one works the first meeting between our two leading male characters and their personalities are made clear in true anime fashion here just in the tone of how they speak. The show is coming in a regular edition and a limited edition where the LE comes with a holographic foil box, a 40-page artbook, and some stickers. On-disc extras for both sets clock in at 54 minutes with an audio commentary, a video commentary, the Sleepy Life segments, All the World’s A Stage bonus, and the clean opening and closing sequences.
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 English language dub was directed by Sonny Strait and the cast includes Clifford Chapin as Mahiru, Chuck Huber as Kuro, Mike McFarland as Belkia, Alejandro Saab as Koyuki, Stephen Sanders as Ryusei, and Brian Olvera as Sakuya.
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.
