With home video releases back in 2015, Sentai Filmworks brought out the Nobunaga the Fool anime series. The show was released in two parts – and surprisingly never got a complete collection at a lower price. The show ended its run on HIDIVE a bit ago but as part of their August promotion to revisit some classics, they’ve now just brought out the full twenty-four-episode run of the show in bilingual form to check out and give fans something new to watch that they might have missed the first time around.
Sentai Filmworks has released both halves of the season on DVD and Blu-ray and you can read our reviews of the first half and second half.
This twenty-four-episode show was originally directed by Eiichi Sato (Slayers Next, AD Police) with series composition by Shoji Kawamori (Macross Zero, Aquarion), original character designs by Yone Kazuki (Hakuoki, Hiiro no Kakera) and animation production by Satelight (AKB0048, Bodacious Space Pirates).
Plot concept: Long ago, in an age when the cosmos was still known as Chaos, the world was split into two planets, forming the West and East Stars. After years of war and strife, the Western Star has finally become united under a single king, the legendary Arthur. But conflict still threatens to consume all until hope arises in a vision: a vision of a champion who could save the futures of both worlds. Setting forth on a dangerous journey, Joan d’Arc must travel from the West world to the East, seeking the man she believes can use the devices of the great Leonardo Da Vinci and become their savior. But will Nobunaga Oda be the kind of man they are expecting? Will history’s greatest heroes find themselves choosing not a liberator, but a destroyer? Or is Nobunaga’s role that of the Fool from a deck of Tarot, the wild card whose purpose is to invoke change, no matter what the cost? Expect the unexpected as super-technology and giant robots collide with samurai warriors, and a pantheon of characters drawn from across history wage the ultimate battle against the forces of chaos in NOBUNAGA THE FOOL!
