The winter 2023 anime adaptation of the light novel series Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for my Retirement is getting its home video releases in Japan handled by DMM Pictures. The distributor has opted for a box set approach for the twelve-episode series where it’ll be priced at 36,000 yen when it arrives on May 31st, 2023. It’ll come with anew novel and an original soundtrack while on-disc extras are listed currently with just an audio commentary.
With it a good bit away, DMM Pictures has now dropped their first preview of the artwork for it below!
Hiroshi Tamdada is directing and based on the scripts from Akihiko Inari. Yuki Fukuchi is handling the character designs with Felix Film handling the animation production.
The Japanese cast includes Rika Nagae as Mitsuha Yamano, Rika Nagae as Mitsuha Yamano, Rika Tachibana as Colette, Kaori Maeda as Sabine, Jun Fukuyama as Takeshi Yamano, Ruriko Aoki as Elaine, Yuji Kameyama as Tobias, and Kenyu Horiuchi as It.
The English dub has Jeremy Inman as the ADR director with Dallas Reid assisting as they work from scripts by Alex Mai. The English cast includes Trina Nishimura as Mitsuha, Marianne Bray as Colette, Erin Kelly Noble as Eline, Travis Mullenix as Tobias, Anthony DiMascio as Tsuyoshi, and Randy Pearlman as It. Additional voices include Cory Phillips, Nicholas Markgraf, Kristian Eros, Matthew David Rudd, and Emily Fajardo.
Kaori Maeda will perform “Hikatta Coin ga Shimesu Kata” as the opening theme song.
Known originally as Rōgo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-Man-Mai no Kinka o Tamemasu, it comes from FUNA and began in 2015 with Kodansha bringing it out in print. There are seven volumes as of August 2022 in Japan. A manga adaptation began in 2017 with Keisuke Motoe which has ten volumes out as of August 2022 in Japan. Kodansha USA handles both incarnations.
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Plot Concept: One day, Mitsuha falls off a cliff and is transported to a medieval Europe–type world! After a near-death encounter with a pack of wolves, she then realizes that she’s able to transport between two worlds—this one and her own. Taking advantage of this ability, Mitsuha decides to live in both worlds and calculates that she’ll need 80,000 gold coins to be able to retire! Mitsuha now has to come up with different ways to collect her gold coins!
[Source: Rogo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-Man-Mai no Kinka o Tamemasu]
