The summer 2019 anime series Try Knights is getting its home video release handled by VAP and they’ve previously set a good schedule for it. Unfortunately, it looks like that schedule was not well-received as all of the singles for it were canceled, which means the preorders were awful. With each set listed as having two discs, the DVDs are priced at 8,000 yen each while the Blu-rays are priced at 9,000 yen. They were set to begin on October 23rd, 2019 with three episodes per disc.
Now, the entire series has been resolicited as a Blu-ray box set on January 22nd, 2020 where it’ll be priced at 29,000 yen. No DVD box set is being produced and it’s basically eliminating the cost of one of the singles to try and recoup some of the production costs.
Gonzo is producing the animation for it and now several new cast members have been revealed with Takuya Satō as Reo Asamiya, Wataru Urata as Yukiya Katashiro, Tomoya Fukui as Akiomi Suruga, Shun Horie as Rinto Arimura, and Haruki Ishiya as Shōgo Tenkawa. Check out their designs below!
The Japanese cast includes Shōgo Sakamoto as Riku Haruma, KENN as Akira Kariya, Seiji Maeda as Tomomi Hōryū, Shūta Morishima as Pearce Valentine Shōtani, Yoshiki Nakajima as Seiichirō Nade, Takuma Terashima as Tori Fuyuhara, Kōhei Amasaki as Sōya Randō, and Hidenori Takahashi as Keita Oguma.
The manga comes from Senzoku Erisawa and Shunsaku Yano which began in June 2018 in Monthly Comic Gene and it has two volumes in print so far as of the end of March 2019.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: Haruma Riku begins high school with no future in sight. Then, in a passing glance, his attention is captured by the wild, animal-like movements of a student on the school’s athletic field. He jumps higher, runs faster, and tries harder than anyone Riku has ever seen. That student is Kariya Akira, and the sport he plays is the one Riku attempted in the past but gave up: rugby. As he watches Akira running in a rough, unrefined gait, Riku gives him a bit of advice without thinking, and those words end up setting his passion for rugby alight again. With this first encounter between these two young men, one tactical and the other physical, a new light begins to shine on Riku’s future.
| Volume | Date | Extras |
|---|---|---|
| Box Set | 01/22/20 | |
| 1 | 10/23/19 | |
| 2 | 11/27/19 | |
| 3 | 12/25/19 | |
| 4 | 01/22/20 |
[Source: Try Knights]
