With Sentai Filmworks having set their release for My Love Story!! from two halves to a full collection earlier this year and that release due out in a couple of weeks (which we’re in the midst of watching for review right now), Madman Entertainment has finalized their plans. It was going to be curious to see what they would do in either going through with the original plan or going with the complete collection plan and it looks like they’re doing the latter. The show is set for a March 8th, 2017 debut in Australia with the complete bilingual TV series priced at $59.95 on DVD. And only DVD as no Blu-ray is at this time being solicited there. And that’s damn unfortunate as the show has a great visual and color design that demands high definition presentation.
The anime series ran for twenty-four episodes and was directed by Morio Asaka at Madhouse with Natsuko Takahashi handling the scripts. Character designs were done by Kunihiko Hamada.
The Japanese cast includes Takuya Eguchi as Takeo Gōda, Megumi Han as Rinko Yamato, Nobunaga Shimazaki as Makoto Sunakawa, Kikuko Inoue as Ai Sunakawa, Daisuke Namikawa as Hayato Oda, Kazuyo Aoki as Yuriko Gouda, Tesshou Genda as Yutaka Gouda, Osamu Kurihara as Junya Enoki, Rina Kitagawa as Nanako, Rena Maeda as Mariya Saijo and Ai Kayano as Yukika Amami.
The manga series comes from writer Kazune Kawahara and artist Aruko which began in 2011 with nine volumes in print so far. Viz Media began releasing the series last summer digitally and in print with the sixth volume due out in October. Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series for home video release in North America.
Plot concept: Takeo Goda’s hulking physique and affinity for sports make him popular with other guys, but girls just find him intimidating. Unaware of his gentle nature, the girls that Takeo likes always seem to fall for his handsome best friend, Makoto, instead. Takeo is resigned to being Makoto’s wingman, with no hard feelings between them, until Takeo rescues Rinko Yamato from a molester on the train. Unfortunately, while Rinko might see past Takeo’s brutish appearance, Takeo’s become so conditioned to girls preferring Makoto that he assumes Rinko is the same! Being the good, genuine guy he is, he’s going to do everything he can to help the two of them be happy. Will Takeo let himself believe someone likes him? Love isn’t blind: it’s just a little dense in MY LOVE STORY!!
