Preview: Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia (Bluray Box Sets I & II)
Aniplex of America has announced that Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia (Bluray Box Sets I & II) will be receiving two Blu-ray box set releases in 2021. Each box set will be housed in a sleek box featuring an exclusive illustration by character designer Tomoaki Takase containing three Blu-ray discs with PVs, CMs, textless opening and endings, as well as web previews.
BOX I (available March 30th 2021)
This will have the first half of the series (episodes 00-11) in both the original Japanese and English audio, plus recap episodes I and II in Japanese, along with a special booklet showing comments from the Japanese cast about the characters they play and information about the show’s setting of Mesopotamia.
BOX II (available June 29th 2021)
This will have the latter half of the series (episodes 12-21) in both Japanese and English audio along with the Episode 16 special ending in Japanese, and an exclusive booklet.
Featuring the awe-inspiring animation production by CloverWorks (THE PROMISED NEVERLAND, RASCAL DOES NOT DREAM OF BUNNY GIRL SENPAI), FATE/GRAND ORDER ABSOLUTE DEMONIC FRONT: BABYLONIA captures the story of the seventh Singularity by Kinoko Nasu (TYPE-MOON) featured in the international sensation and mobile game FATE/GRAND ORDER. Directed Toshifumi Akai (MAGI: THE LABYRINTH OF MAGIC) with lead character design by Takashi Takeuchi (FATE/STAY NIGHT [UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS], FATE/ZERO), the series finds main characters Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash Kyrielight in the ancient land of Uruk, which is on the brink of destruction after the appearance of three goddesses and countless Demonic Beasts.
The Japanese cast features Nobunaga Shimazaki (FREE!, BLACK CLOVER), Rie Takahashi (YUUNA AND THE HAUNTED HOT SPRINGS, LAID-BACK CAMP), Kenichi Suzumura (GINTAMA, FIRE FORCE), Maaya Sakamoto (BLACK BUTLER, THE GARDEN OF SINNERS), Tomokazu Seki (FATE/ZERO, FATE/STAY NIGHT [UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS]), Takahiro Sakurai (DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA, CODE GEASS: LELOUCH OF THE REBELLION), and Yu Kobayashi (ATTACK ON TITAN, GINTAMA).
In the English cast, Griffin Burns (anohana –The Flower We Saw That Day-, DEVILMAN crybaby) and Erica Mendez (KILL la KILL, THE PROMISED NEVERLAND) lead the cast as Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash Kyrielight with Xander Mobus (PERSONA5 the Animation, BLUE EXORCIST: KYOTO SAGA), Erika Harlacher (I want to eat your pancreas, DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA), David Earnest (FATE/ZERO, KILL la KILL), Robbie Daymond (SAILOR MOON, CELLS AT WORK!), Marianne Miller (PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA, FLCL ALTERNATIVE) as supporting cast members. The English dub features the work of ADR script writer Laura Stahl (THE MISFIT OF DEMON KING ACADEMY, YASHAHIME: PRINCESS HALF-DEMON) and veteran ADR Director Tony Oliver (FATE/ZERO, FATE/STAY NIGHT [UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS]) at the helm.
You can pre-order Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia Blu-ray Box Set I & II HERE.