Announced back in January 2017, the anime adaptation of the manhua series Shiyan Pin Jiating: Frankenstein Family from Yanai, arrived in the spring 2018 season but didn’t get a home video release scheduled for it until now. With the sets out a couple of weeks ago we now have a good sized look at the packaging for the three iterations that has us hopeful for an overseas release. The show is being done in an interesting way where it’s being released in two smaller parts, a first half and back half, priced at 5,800 yen on DVD. The show is also getting a complete collection priced at 14,000 yen, which isn’t fully detailed just yet. All three releases were released with a November 14th, 2018 debut.
The Japanese cast includes Riho Sugiyama as Tanis, Nanako Mori as Aisley, Yoshiko Ikuta as Suishi, Saori Hayami as Ashise, and Daisuke Namikawa as Snow.
Originally slated for the fall 2017 season before being shifted to the spring 2018 season, Weitianxing is directing it with studio Dahuoniao Donghua producing the animation. Rin Akatsuki is performing the opening theme song “Early Day” while Kano is performing the ending theme “Fall Down in the Spring” for it.
The original work began in August 2015 in Sun Comics, a Taiwanese publisher, with Yanai from Hong Kong. The first compiled volume arrived in Japan on January 25th, 2017
Plot concept: Tanisu’s parents are mad scientists who live outside of normal society. They locked up their own children up on an isolated island and did experiments on them in secret, turning Tanisu’s older brother and three older sisters into strange creatures. One day, their parents were arrested, and the siblings were moved to another island by the welfare office. The trouble is that none of the siblings except Tanisu know how to interact in modern day society…
[Source: Frankenstein Family]
