MVM Sets November 9 Release for Ya Boy Kongming! Collector’s Blu-ray

MVM announced on its X/Twitter feed that the first TV season of Ya Boy Kongming! (Paripi Kōmei) will arrive on Collector’s Blu-ray on November 9. The release includes a 64-page booklet.

The anime’s voice cast included:

• Kaede Hondo as musical artist Eiko Tsukumi’s speaking voice, with 96Neko providing her singing voice.
• Ryōtarō Okiayu as Zhuge Kongming.
• Shōya Chiba as Kabe-Taito.
• Hibiku Yamamura as Nanami Kuon, whose singing voice had yet to be announced.
• Jun Fukushima as Owner Kobayashi.

The production staff included:

• Director Shū Honma at P.A. Works, whose episode-directing credits include The aquatope on white sand, Fairy gone, and IRODUKU: The World in Colors.
• Series script supervisor Yōko Yonaiyama, a scriptwriter on both seasons of Uma Musume Pretty Derby.
• Character designer Kanami Sekiguchi, whose credits include Hanasaku Iroha - Blossoms for Tomorrow and Shirobako.
• Composer Genki Hikota of Hifumi,inc., who worked on theme songs for Lapis Re:LiGHTs and Yuri!!! on Ice and composed the music at Avex Pictures.

New music unit QUEENDOM performed the opening theme, “Chikichiki Banban.” Its members were hibiki and moka from lol, Akina and Taki from FAKY, and Maria Kaneya from GENIC.

Eiko Starring 96Neko performed the ending theme, “Kibun Jōjō ↑↑” (“I'm Super Pumped↑↑”). The song covers mihimaru GT’s 2006 hit.

MVM’s synopsis begins in 234, as the dying Zhuge Kongming reflects on his life among China’s greatest military strategists and statesmen. He wonders how life might have differed in more peaceful times, then inexplicably finds himself younger and in an unfamiliar land: modern Japan.

The master of feudal diplomacy and warfare seems overqualified to flip burgers, but aspiring singer Eiko Tsukimi’s captivating voice gives him a purpose. After learning about her struggle to become a professional, he commits his strategic skills, intellect, and ancient Chinese secrets to making her a star.

The synopsis casts Japan’s music executives as ordinary men facing a promotional campaign led by a legendary strategist reborn.

The manga debuted on Kodansha’s Comic Days website in December 2019 and also started running in Kodansha’s Weekly Young Magazine in November 2021. Kodansha released its eighth collected volume on January 6. Kodansha Comics publishes the manga digitally in English.