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Final 2 Kubikiri Cycle Anime Volumes Delayed Again

The official website for Kubikiri Cycle: Aoiro Savant to Zaregoto Tsukai (Decapitation Cycle: The Blue Savant and the Prankster), the original video anime project based on the first volume in NisiOisin's Zaregoto novel series, announced on Tuesday that the seventh and eighth installment of the OVA series have been delayed again due to production circumstances.

Volume 7, which was most recently slated for June 28, will now ship on August 30 and Volume 8, which was most recently slated for July 26, will ship on September 27. Both volumes have already been delayed twice.

Volume 6 was originally slated for release on April 26, but was delayed until this Wednesday.

The first volume shipped on October 26 on both DVD and Blu-ray Disc. The fourth volume the OVA shipped on February 22 and the fifth volume shipped on March 29.

The OVA's cast includes:

Yūki Kaji as Boku

Aoi Yūki as Tomo

Yu Shimamura as Akane

Ayako Kawasumi as Kanami

Kenji Hamada as Sakaki

Aya Endō as Maki

Haruna Ikezawa as Yayoi

Mariya Ise as Iria

Houko Kuwashima as Rei

Natsuko Kuwatani as Akari

Ryoko Shintani as Hikari

Yuko Goto as Teruko

Yūko Kaida as Aikawa

Akiyuki Simbo (Bakemonogatari, Puella Magi Madoka Magica) is serving as chief director and working with Fuyashi Tou (Bakemonogatari, Nisekoi) on series composition. Yuki Yase (Nisemonogatari episode director) is directing. Akio Watanabe (Bakemonogatari, Kizumonogatari) is adapting Take's character designs for animation and serving as chief animation director with Hirofumi Suzuki (The Last -Naruto the Movie-). Yuki Kajiura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Sword Art Online) is composing the music. SHAFT is animating the project. Sangatsu no Phantasia (Kiznaiver) is performing the opening theme song "Cobalt World" and Kalafina is performing the ending theme song "Marchen."

Vertical licensed the novel and released it in January. Del Rey previously released the novel in English in 2008, and the second novel in 2010.

[Via Yaraon!]