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Super Lovers Original Anime DVD's Ad Posted
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official Twitter account of the television anime of Miyuki Abe's boys-love manga Super Lovers posted a commercial for the upcoming "premium anime DVD". The DVD is bundled with a limited edition of the manga's 10th volume, which will ship on January 1, 2017.
The anime will be one episode that is about 20 minutes long. The deadline to pre-order the limited edition is October 18. The limited edition retails for 3,980 yen (about US$35). The anime DVD will feature the following cast: Junko Minagawa, Tomoaki Maeno, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, and Ayumu Murase.
The first anime premiered on April 6, and Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan. Crunchyroll describes the anime's story:
Fooled into coming overseas by news of his mother's imminent death, high school student Kaido Haru encounters a boy who insists that he's his brother. Haru does his best to raise feral and obstinate Ren, but there seems to be a secret behind Ren's birth. On top of that, just when Ren begins to warm up to Haru, tragedy strikes. Five years later, Haru reunites with Ren, all grown up in Tokyo, but...
Shinji Ishihira (Fairy Tail, Tenbatsu Angel Rabbie, Log Horizon) helmed the TV anime at Studio DEEN. Yoshiko Nakamura (Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East, Hakuōki, Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun) supervised the series scripts. Miki Takihara (Squid Girl, Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East, Yuri Kuma Arashi) designed the characters, and Nippon Columbia produced the music.
The anime will get a second season premiering in January 2017. Takuya Satō will play the character Natsuo Shiba in the second season.
