While Funimation brought out the Handa-kun series as a bilingual DVD/BD release last November, its fate in Australia has been quiet – which isn’t a surprise as Barakamon never got a home video release. Now, with their irregular updates, Hanabee has revealed that they’re bringing the show out and it landed on May 5th, 2018. They set their release with separate DVD and Blu-ray editions priced at $49.99 and $69.99 respectively. It looks essentially the same as the North American release with etras including an audio commentary and the clean versions of the opening and closing sequences.
Check out our review of the North American edition.
Animated by Diomedea, Yoshitaka Koyama directed it based on the scripts and series composition from Michiko Yokote. Mayuko Matsumoto worked on the character designs for it. Fo’xTails performing the opening theme song “The Liberty” while Kenichi Suzumura performed the ending theme, “HIDE-AND-SEEK.”
The Japanese cast for the show includes Nobunaga Shimazaki as Sei Handa, Kazuyuki Okitsu as Takao Kawafuji, Yuuya Hirose as Junichi Aizawa, Tetsuya Kakihara as Reo Nikaidou, Yoshimasa Hosoya as Akane Tsutsui, Daiki Yamashita as Yukio Kondou, Yuusuke Shirai as Kei Hanada and Makoto Furukawa as Kotaro Higashino.
Mike McFarland served as the ADR director and the cast includes Rob McCollum as Handa, Duncan Brannan as Kawafuji, Micah Solusod as Junichi Aizawa, Chris Burnett as Nikaido Reo, Dallas Reid as Yukio Kondo, Alejandro Saab as Akane Tsutsui, Terri Doty as Juri, and Sarah Wiedenheft as Maiko Mor.
Yen Press has the North American rights for the series with a couple of volumes out so far. Six volumes of the manga have been released since 2013 in Japan with it ending on July 2016.
Plot concept: Seishuu Handa is admired by his peers as a calligraphy genius and given the utmost respect, but Handa-kun himself is under the mistaken impression that the deference and attention he receives from the other students is actually bullying. Handa just wants to live a quiet life, but hilarity ensues as one character after another challenge his position as the
