The new BL annime will be released as 4 OVA episodes. With the first volume available from October 2014 and subsequent volumes released monthly till January 2015. All first-press volumes will feature illustrated slipcase, digipak, manga booklet, character fragrance cards (varies with each volume), metal-plate bookmark, art book, etc. Similar to the Junjo Romantica and Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi releases. If I’m not wrong, both first-press Blu-ray (6,500 Yen) and DVD (5,500 Yen) versions have the same items.
Release dates of the DVD/Blu-ray (each has an estimated running time of 25 minutes):
Blu-ray/DVD Vol 1 : 29 October 2014
Character fragrance card: Kotarou 小太郎, Hazuki 葉月
Item (SD character illustration): Wrapping cloth オリジナルシャンタン風呂敷
Blu-ray/DVD Vol 2: 26 November 2014
Character fragrance card: Yuzu ゆず, Ichi Seya 瀬谷壱
Item (SD character illustration): Mini purse with clasp ミニがま口財布
Blu-ray/DVD Vol 3: 26 December 2014
Character fragrance card: Kuroda 黒田
Item (SD character illustration): Towel オリジナル手ぬぐい
Blu-ray/DVD Vol 4: 28 January 2015
Character fragrance card: Tsukishima 月島
Animation key-art book
The trailer! Love the kiddies <3 Really looking forward to the release!
Last update: 30 August 2013
After a long hiatus since boy’s love manga Hybrid Child’s anime was announced, the new cast of the anime is announced! We can expect more updates and news about the anime in the upcoming months. Cover features the first couple in the story: Hazuki and Izumi Kotarou.
Title: Hybrid Child ハイブリッド・チャイルド manga
Author: Nakamura Shungiku (Junjo Romantica, Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi)
Animated by Studio Deen who also did the anime for Junjou Romantica and Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi series. By the way, brand new anime series for Junjou Romantica is announced too! Most likely to be season 3! As well as a Seikai ichi hatsukoi movie planned for 2014.
Official site: http://www.hybridchild.jp
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hybridchild_pr
Summary:
The Hybrid Child is an amazing android that can grow if it is lavished with enough love and care from its owner. Neither fully machine nor fully human, the various Hybrid Child models develop strong emotional bonds with their owners. Each short story contains love, sacrifice, and drama: Young Kotaro learns the importance of responsibility when his Hybrid Child’s lifespan runs out. The tragic swordsman Seya learns to love again with the help of his Hybrid child, Yuzu. The final tale tells the story of Kuroda, the creator of the Hybrid Child designs.
New cast in anime
Okamoto Nobuhiko 岡本信彦 as Izumi Kotarou 和泉小太郎
Hirakawa Daisuke 平川大輔 as Hazuki 葉月
Kimura Ryouhei 木村良平 as Ichi Seya 瀬谷壱
Yonaga Tsubasa 代永翼 as Yuzu ゆず
Matsuoka Yoshitsugu 松岡禎丞 as Tsukishima 月島
Ono Yuuki 小野友樹 as Kuroda 黒田
Pairings
Hirakawa Daisuke x Okamoto Nobuhiko 平川大輔 x 岡本信彦
Kimura Ryouhei x Yonaga Tsubasa 木村良平 x 代永翼
Ono Yuuki x Matsuoka Yoshitsugu 小野友樹 x 松岡禎丞
The new cast is completely different from the ones in the drama cd that was released in 2005. I think the new cast would sound fine. The stories are shounen-ai, maybe except for story 3, so there are no H-voices to worry about :P
Original cast in drama cd
(葉月) Toriumi Kousuke x Fukuyama Jun 鳥海浩輔 x 福山潤 (和泉小太郎)
(瀬谷) Suwabe Junichi x Miyata Kouki 諏訪部順一 x 宮田幸季 (ゆず)
(黒田) Inoue Kazuhiko x Midorikawa Hikaru 井上和彦 x 緑川光 (月島)
The couple below is: Ichi Seya and Yuzu.
Third couple: Kuroda and Tsukishima
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*CRIES* omg have you seen epi one yet!?!?!? SO fucking CUTE!!!*heart melts* Amazing story~<3
@Maria: Yeah… Beautiful story and so glad there are more to come :3
the art look sooo nice >v< i'll have to buy more tissue to wiped my tears when the anime comes out lol
@popo: me too :)
This is seriously my favorite thing by her. I loved it more than Junjou (as odd as that seems) so this is really exciting to me!
@Ruika-sama: I’m with you on this one. I love Hybrid Child more than Junjo too :D The original art style may be unpolished but the stories were really moving.
Finally…been wondering when this series was going to come out…
@iced_wine: me too! Looking forward to it :)
Omgggg… i can’t wait~!!
Lol the seiyuu cast is like Kurobas x Free! XDD But weirdly Okamoto choice since he’s Kisa, but I love his voice, so no complains about that.
But really, I will only believe in a new Junjou Romantica season when official site confirms, or it has an announce on Ciel mag (like they did with Yokozawa movie).
@planck-chan: It’ll be fun if there’s a cross-over anime of all sensei’s series and Okamoto has to voice multiple chara in same anime lololol. You have a good point about the ova tho. The news was published in the latest Junjo manga.
Oh that’s so good to hear, I mean, I was so disillusioned cos we heard about it many times but we’ve been waiting so long… that OVA last year was fun but a new season is something we all dream about it! I was like, no big hopes until something more concrete, but as it’s on manga now I can be happy!!!
Or as you said, if it’s not a new OVA… I’m happy but also cautious, they like to crush our dreams XDDD
wow, a new junjou season, a hatsukoi movie, and a whole new series…super excited XDXDXD
@iced_wine: Now that planck-chan has mentioned it, I also hope it not just a one-episode dvd ova that comes with limited edition manga orz;;
o_o Read the title, did a little research, found the manga link in my favorites. I’m feeling so much guilty that I don’t remmember nothing from the plot. @.@ Gonna read it again. It’s in my “pretty good” folder, so i supposed I liked it a lot. *I know, my memory is the worst =-=*
@Senkai: You probably have many other fav works which left a deeper impression than Hybrid Child. Care to share some? :D
In fact, there’s nothing impressive here.
It’s just my memory that is worst than my goldfish’s.
Reading from the start, there’s gravitation ex, underground prision, okane ga nai, koisuru bokun, kaze to ki no uta, kitsune no tama youbai(almost sure this one was shota X.O yet it was cute) , Otoginokuni no Shucchou Host (only two chapter added on this, so sad) , and so there’s a lot of one – shoots that I can’t remmember the plot. X.X But the most titles are very well know.
(Some time ago, whem I went to cram school, there’s was a friend that sent me a lot of one shoots X.X That’s why.)
My inner fangirl is screaming, omg I’m so excited!!
When it comes to BL manga going anime, Nakamura Shungiku is most successful ☆
@Masatoka: yeah, glad it is a success… cos it’ll pave the way for more!
nooooooooooo!
i’m going to cry a lot!
@Shirokaze: yeah… can’t wait to watch it too.