Pony Canyon is handling the home video release plans for the Time Bokan 24 anime series and they previously set the release plans for the second half of it. Sadly, artwork for the run as a whole has been terrible with retailers often not having any at all for the individual volumes and all we have for the first is a tiny image. Which, sadly, is the same for the second one but at least we have a little bit of an idea of what it looks like. The show is getting a Blu-ray box set that will arrive on September 20th, 2017 priced at 21,060 yen. They’re also releasing the show on DVD monthly that began on June 21st, 2017 priced at 3,024 yen across eight volumes.
The Japanese cast includes Akihisa Wakayama as Tokio, Akari Kito as Calen, Eri Kitamura as Bimajo, Hiroaki Hirata as Tsubuyakky, Kenta Miyake as Suzukky, Takeshi Maeda as Peralino, Rikako Aikawa as Picobo, Bokanbures, Hori as Oyadama and Shigeru Chiba as Bokannare.
The project has Takayuki Inagaki as director working from the series composition by Youichi Katou with Tatsunoko Production obviously handling the animation.
Plot concept: The protagonist Tokio is a first-year middle school student living in modern Tokyo. One day to his surprise, he is suddenly appointed as a member of a 24th century organization, the Space-Time Administration Bureau. Tokio learns that, in reality, the history written in textbooks is all a lie and that the true history of the world contains amusing facts that remain hidden. For example, the beautiful woman known in history as Cleopatra is actually a stand-up comedy duo named Cleo and Patra. Additionally, the folk tale hero Momotarou is a man more demonic than all demons.
Tokio and fellow bureau member Calen use the Bokan Mecha 24, a machine which can transform and merge into various forms, to search for true history. Tokio and his friends must face three evils familiar to the Time Bokan series, Bimajo, Tsubuyakky, and Suzukky. Together, they form a group called the Akudama which has been hired by the world’s largest textbook company, History Paradise, to protect the history textbook. What true history will be revealed next?
| Volume | Date | Extras |
|---|---|---|
| Box 1 | 05/17/17 | |
| Box 2 | 09/20/17 | |
| DVD 1 | 02/15/17 | |
| DVD 2 | 03/15/17 | |
| DVD 3 | 04/19/17 | |
| DVD 4 | 05/17/17 | |
| DVD 5 | 06/21/17 | |
| DVD 6 | 07/19/17 | |
| DVD 7 | 08/18/17 | |
| DVD 8 | 09/20/17 |
[Source: Time Bokan 24]
