Waiting In The Summer
While the original series came and went in 2012 and we had the early 2013 release on home video by Sentai Filmworks, it looks like Waiting in the Summer is not down for the count just yet. As part of the AnimeJapan 2014 trade show this past weekend, the NBCUniversal group (formerly Geneon Universal) revealed that a new OVA is in the works that will be coming out this summer in Japan. The release is to be tied to the new Blu-ray box set of the original TV series which will also include a new CD and a variety of other deluxe bonus extras that are yet to be revealed.
The cast and crew that worked on the TV series are coming back together for the OVA, so it’ll have solid continuity in that regard.
Haruka Tomatsu as Ichika Takatsuki
Nobunaga Shimazaki as Kaito Kirishima
Kaori Ishihara as Kanna Tanigawa
Hideki Ogihara as Tetsurō Ishigaki
Kana Asumi as Mio Kitahara
Yukari Tamura as Remon Yamano
Rina Hidaka as Rinon
Original Story: I*Chi*Ka
Director: Tatsuyuki Nagai
Screenplay: Yousuke Kuroda
Original Character Design: Taraku Uon
Character Design: Masayoshi Tanaka
Mechanical design: Kanetake Ebikawa
Art Director: Ayu Kawamoto
Art design: Nobuhito Sue
Color design: Maya Muranaga
Director of Photography: Yoshio Ookouchi
Editing: Shigeru Nishiyama
Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
Sound Production: Magic Capsule
Music: I’ve sound/Maiko Iuchi
Music Production: NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan
Opening: Ray
Ending: Nagi Yanagi
Produce: GENCO
Animation Production: J.C. Staff
Presented by: Natsumachi Production Committee
Plot concept: When a group of friends decide to make a movie over a long summer holiday, they end up learning a little about filmmaking and a lot more about each other and themselves. What begins as a simple way to avoid the summer doldrums quickly turns into something much more complex, intimate, and downright revealing. As the summer heats up, so do the maturing relationships between the young cast members, taking some new, and sometimes unexpected, turns.
[Source: ANN]