
The spring/summer 2020 anime series that’s part of a 50th-anniversary project with Hakushon Daimaou is now setting up for its home video release. Handled by Anipelx Japan, the twenty-episode season is getting a single box set release that will arrive on December 23rd, 2020. The set will be a two-disc one priced at 25,400 yen.
Clocking in at 480 minutes, it’ll include a 16-page booklet and the clean opening and closing sequences as extras.
The show is based on the idea by Tatsuo Yoshida and was directed by Hiroshi Sasagawa. Tatsunoko Production was behind the animation producing for the 52-episode run that aired from 1969 to 1970.
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Original Concept: A young boy finds a bottle in his attic with a genie who can be summoned by sneezing. Unfortunately, the genie isn’t very good, and his wishes have a tendency to go wrong…
[Source: Hakushon Daimaou]