Funimation brought out the Taboo Tattoo complete series on DVD/BD combo back on December 5th, 2017 and the marketing for it continues. The latest comes with a fun action-packed shareable piece that focuses on Justice and Schrödinger’s Cat going at it while letting the English cast stand out. The set, priced at $64.98, is a twelve episode work that comes with the clean opening and closings as its extras.
With eleven volumes of the original manga released in Japan at the time of broadcast, the show was directed by Takashi Watanabe based on the series composition and scripts by Mayori Sekijima. Shinya Hasegawa worked on the character designs and the series was animated by J.C. Staff.
The Japanese cast includes Makoto Furukawa as Justice Akatsuka, Mikako Komatsu as Bluesy=Fluesy, Chika Anzai as Touko Ichinose, Akari Kito as Aryabhata, Shiori Izawa as Iltutmish, Kenjirou Tsuda as R. R. Lurker, Eri Kitamura as Lisa Lovelock, Hitomi Nabatame as Kar Shekar, Toshiyuki Morikawa as Brad Blackstone, Akari Kito as Aryabhata, Sho Hayami as Professor Wiseman and Tesshô Genda as Colonel Sanders.
The opening theme is “Belief” by May’n while the ending theme is “Egoistic Emotion” by TRIGGER.
Plot concept: Seigi, a martial arts trained middle schooler, often feels driven to protect the weaker people around him. One day, he defends a homeless man against some punks, and the man gives him a strange tattoo on his palm in return. The tattoo is a secret weapon produced in the arms race between America and the Serinistan Kingdom.
Seigi finds himself in over his head when a powerful girl, using the same secret weapon, violently pursues him in order to retrieve it. His skill at martial arts may not be enough to keep him alive, but will he be able to learn how to trigger the power of his tattoo in time?
