Funimation has the series Classroom of the Elite coming up later this summer as a DVD/BD combo release in bilingual form and is doing some new promotion for it. Set for an August 14th, 2018 debut, the $64.98 priced set has the twelve episode run and the basic extras of the clean opening sequence. It’s also a set that comes with a Funimation tied digital copy that will give you streaming ability for it. Ahead of this release we now have the first trailer to showcase the home video side of it.
The show set Seiji Kishi and Hiroyuki Hashimoto to direct it based on the series composition by Aoi Akashiro. Kazuaki Morita is on board to work on the character designs with studio Lerche handling the animation production.
Apphia Yu served as the ADR director and worked from scripts by Emily Neves. The main cast includes Justin Briner as Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, Felecia Angelle as Suzune Horikita, Sarah Wiedenheft as Kikyo Kushida, David Matranga as Manabu Horikita, Brandon McInnis ,as Ken Sudo, Travis Mullenix as Haruki Yamauchi, Aaron Dismuke as Kanji Ike, Christopher Wehkamp as Rokusuke Koenji, Dallas Reid as Yosuke Hirata, Bryn Apprill as Kei Karuizawa, Matt Shipman as Hideo Sotomura, Michelle Rojas as Maya Sato, Brittney Karbowski as Chiaki Matsushita, and Jennifer Alyx as Sae Chabashira.
The series comes from writer Shougo Kinugasa and artist Shunsaku Tomose that began in May 2015 with new volumes hitting regularly.
Plot concept: Kōdo Ikusei Senior High School, a leading prestigious school with state-of-the-art facilities where nearly 100% of students go on to university or find employment. The students there have the freedom to wear any hairstyle and bring any personal effects they desire. Kōdo Ikusei is a paradise-like school, but the truth is that only the most superior of students receive favorable treatment. The protagonist Kiyotaka Ayanokōji is a student of D-class, which is where the school dumps its “inferior” students in order to ridicule them. For a certain reason, Kiyotaka was careless on his entrance examination and was put in D-class. After meeting Suzune Horikita and Kikyō Kushida, two other students in his class, Kiyotaka’s situation begins to change.