The summer 2019 anime series To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts is getting its home video releases handled by NBC Universal Japan and they’ve set a good plan for it. In an effort to support awareness for the release, the distributor has a90-second promo out that showcases some of the animated storyboards going to full animation, which is always fascinating to see. The twelve-episode series is getting a four-volume release that begins on September 26th, 2019 and will be only on Blu-ray. While it’s still a bit away, we now get a look at the first cover and hopefully we’ll see a packaging spread soon as well. Each set is priced at 9,000 yen and you can see the full layout below.
Jun Shishido directing based on the scripts by Shigeru Murakoshi. Daisuke Niinuma is handling the character designs with MAPPA handling the animation production.
The previously announced Japanese cast includes Katsuyuki Konishi as Hank, Ai Kakuma as Nancy Schaal Bancroft, Yūichi Nakamura as Cain, Mamiko Noto as Elaine, Kaito Ishikawa as Claude, Yōko Hikasa as Liza, Kana Ichinose as Miglieglia, and Maaya Sakamoto as Elizabeth.
The nine Incarnate soldiers actors include Kouki Uchiyama, Tomokazu Sugita, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Shinnosuke Tachibana, Kenjiro Tsuda, Saori Hayami, Daisuke Hirakawa, Jun Fukuyama, and Hiroki Yasumoto.
The series began in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine during the summer of 2014 and it has nine volumes out so far. It’s released in English through Vertical Comics.
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Plot Concept: During a protracted civil war that pitted the North against the South, the outnumbered Northerners used dark magic to create monstrous super-soldiers called Incarnates. Now that the war has ended, those Sacred Beasts must learn to make their way in a peaceful society or face death at the hands of a Beast Hunter. Nancy Schaal Bancroft, the daughter of an Incarnate, turns to hunt the hunter herself. But once she catches up with her quarry, she discovers hard truths about the lives of these Sacred Beasts.
| Volume | Date | Extras |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 09/26/19 | Booklet, Soundtrack CD, Clean Opening, Clean Closing, Cast Talk |
| 2 | 10/30/19 | |
| 3 | 11/27/19 | |
| 4 | 12/25/19 |
[Source: To the abandoned Sacred Beasts]
