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Non Non Biyori Blu-ray Released Monday
posted on by Andrew Osmond
On Monday June 5, MVM will release a Blu-ray edition of the first TV series of the television anime adaptation of Atto's schoolgirl manga Non Non Biyori.
The slice-of-life comedy is set in a countryside school with only five students total, including four girls: Renge Miyauchi (played by Kotori Koiwai), Hotaru Ichijō (Rie Murakawa), Natsumi Koshigaya (Ayane Sakura), and Komari Koshigaya (Kana Asumi). On this isolated countryside, the nearest bookstore is 20 minutes away by bicycle, a certain "Ju_p" magazine comes out on Wednesdays instead of Mondays, and the video rental store is 10 stations away. Hotaru Ichijō transfers from Tokyo to this school and readjusts to the slow life in the country. Her fellow schoolmates are Natsumi, Komari, Renge, and Komari's big brother Suguru in the third year of middle school.
Reiko Yoshida (K-ON!, Girls und Panzer) oversaw the series scripts, and Mai Otsuka (Oreshura, Shakugan no Shana III (Final), Astarotte no Omocha!) was the character designer and chief animation director. nano.RIPE performed the opening theme song "Nanairo Biyori."
Atto launched the manga in Media Factory's Monthly Comic Alive magazine in 2009.
Anime Limited will release standard Blu-ray and DVD editions of the film Summer Ghost.
