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Animax Asia Airs Re:ZERO OVAs on July 2-3
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Animax Asia announced last week that it will air the Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Memory Snow and Re:ZERO - Starting Life in Another World - The Frozen Bond original video anime (OVA) on July 2 and 3, respectively. Both OVAs will air at 11:00 p.m. GMT +8 on both days.
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Memory Snow opened in Japanese theaters in October 2018, and featured a returning cast and staff. The OVA ranked at #8 at the Japanese box office during its opening weekend.
The story of the OVA takes place after [Spoilers, highlight to read.]Subaru and friends defeat the Demon Beast Wolgarm, the source of the curse, and save the children of Irlam village. The characters finally get a moment of peace, and Subaru goes on a certain secret mission that he must not let anyone find out about. However, even though Subaru is wearing a disguise, Petra and other children of the village immediately figure out who he is. Now that his mission was exposed within five seconds of it starting, what will happen with Subaru's "date course" with Emilia?
Re:ZERO - Starting Life in Another World - The Frozen Bond opened in theaters in Japan last November.
The OVA then shipped on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on April 1.
The OVA adapts the meeting between Emilia and Puck from the Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Zenjitsu-tan: Hyōketsu no Kizuna prequel novel included with the television anime's first Blu-ray Disc volume in Japan.
Animax Asia is currently airing Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Director's Cut. The anime premiered on the channel on June 15. The show is an updated version of the television anime's first season. The new edit of the first 25-episode season added some new footage and reworked the episodes to run in a one-hour timeslot.
The 25-episode first anime season of Tappei Nagatsuki's Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- light novel series premiered in April 2016. Animax Asia premiered the anime in January 2017.
The anime will have a second season. The anime's second season was delayed from April to July 8. The staff explained that "the global issues of the COVID-19 coronavirus illness have had a big effect on the production" of the show.
