Australian distributor Madman Entertainment has revealed they have some home video plans for a series previously unknown with Hyouka. With Funimation previously bringing that out after it languished in licensing hell for years, Madman has scheduled a February 6th, 2019 debut for it. They’re not going with half season sets but a full complete set that’s priced at $79.95. It’ll have the twenty-two episodes in bilingual form on Blu-ray only.
Check out our reviews of the first part and the second part releases.
Based on the novel by Honobu Yonezawa, the 2012 anime adaptation was directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto based on the series composition by Shoji Gatoh. Futoshi Nishiya served as the character designer with Kyoto Animation producing the animation.
The Japanese cast includes Satomi Satou as Eru Chitanda, Yūichi Nakamura as Hōtarō Oreki, Ai Kayano as Mayaka Ibara, Aki Toyosaki as Rie Zenna, Ami Koshimizu as Midori Yamanishi, Aoi Yūki as Kurako Eba, Atsushi Abe as Tomohiro Haba, Daisuke Sakaguchi as Satoshi Fukube, Katsuyuki Konishi as Takeo Kaitō, Mami Koyama as Yōko Itoigawa, Mariya Ise as Misaki Sawakiguchi, Masumi Asano as Ayako Kouchi, Minori Chihara as Yuri Kōnosu, Miyu Irino as Jirō Sugimura, Naomi Shindoh as Shōko Yuasa, Ryotaro Okiayu as Masashi Tōgaito ,Ryou Hirohashi as Mamiko Senoue, Saori Hayami as Kaho Jūmonji, Satsuki Yukino as Tomoe Oreki, Takayuki Kondou as Jun’ya Nakajō, Takumi Yamazaki as Omichi-sensei, Toshiyuki Morikawa as Muneyoshi Kugayama, Yoshihisa Kawahara as Koreyuki Tani, Yui Ogura as Kayo Zenna, Yukana as Fuyumi Irisu, and Yuuki Tai as Takeo Katsuta.
Mike McFarland and Cris George are the ADR directors for it with Emily Neves and Bonny Clinkenbeard serving as the ADR writers. The English cast includes Adam Gibbs as Hotaru Oreki, Madeleine Morris as Eru Chitanda, Dallas Reid as Satsohi Fukabe, Jill Harris as Mayaka Ibara, Caitlin Glass as Tomoe Oreki, Linda Young as Ms. Itoigawa, Alexis Tipton as Fuyumi Irisu, Sarah Wiedenheft as Sawakiguchi, Brina Palencia as Kochi, Dave Trosko as Tanabe and Dawn M. Bennett as Yuasa.
Plot Concept: Hōtarō Oreki doesn’t like to do things that he considers a waste of energy. However, things start to change when he enters high school because even though he does not want to join any non-compulsory school activities, his older sister requested that he join the memberless Classic Literature Club so that it won’t get abolished. Unbeknownst to him, another student, Eru Chitanda, already planned to join; but instead of being free from club obligations, Hōtarō eventually joined as he is strangely unable to refuse or escape from Eru’s passionate gaze of curiosity. Together with his friends Satoshi and Mayaka, they began to discuss a variety of mysteries in school that only Hōtarō seems to be able to solve, including the mystery that lingered on from Eru’s childhood memory.
