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New Strike the Blood Video Anime Will Be 4-Volume Series Based on 9th Novel
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The 51st volume of Kadokawa's Dengeki Bunko Magazine revealed on Tuesday that the new original video anime (OVA) series adaptation of Gakuto Mikumo's Strike the Blood light novels will have four two-episode volumes, with the first volume slated for DVD and Blu-ray Disc release on November 23. The OVA will start by depicting the story in the ninth light novel volume (cover shown right), and will take place in Blue Elysium, a resort facility near Itogami Island.
The second volume is slated for December 21, the third on March 29, and the fourth on April 26. The first volume's home video release will include the creditless opening and ending sequence, as well as a booklet containing annotations, an original story by Mikumo, and a manga.
The magazine shows the draft character designs for Kiriha Kisaki and Yume Eguchi, who first appear in the ninth light novel volume. Kadokawa published the ninth novel volume in October 2013.
The school action fantasy story of Strike the Blood begins with Kojō Akatsuki (voiced by Yoshimasa Hosoya in the earlier television anime), a boy deemed the "fourth progenitor" — the world's most powerful vampire, once thought to only exist in legend and lore. In the Itogamijima special zone for demons, a girl named Yukina Himeragi (Risa Taneda) is entrusted with watching over the vampire and if needed, hunting him down.
The novel series inspired a 24-episode television anime series in 2013, as well as an earlier two-episode OVA project last November and December. Crunchyroll streamed the television anime series as it aired in Japan. Discotek licensed the television anime for North American home video.
Yen Press is publishing the light novel series in North America. It published the third volume on May 24. TATE has been serializing a manga adaptation in Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine since 2012. The manga's eighth compiled book volume shipped on April 27, with the ninth volume slated for September 27.
