The official web site for the Strike The Blood unique video anime (OVA) sequence introduced on Friday that Strike The Blood FINAL, the fifth OVA “season,” will adapt Gakuto Mikumo‘s twenty second and remaining predominant Strike The Blood mild novel quantity in 4 episodes. The primary two-episode quantity will ship on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on March 30, and the second will ship on June 29.

The web site debuted a brand new visible, whose components are additionally getting used for the primary quantity’s jacket artwork:

The restricted first version of the primary quantity will embrace a booklet (with a brand new textual content brief story by Mikumo, manga, and quantity notes), audio commentary (for one episode solely), business advert, and different bonus extras.

Three solid members — Risa Taneda (Yukina Himeragi), Rina Hidaka (Nagisa Akatsuki), and Asami Seto (Asagi Aiba) — will seem throughout a live-streamed particular on the Abema TV service on Saturday at 9:35 p.m. (7:35 a.m. EDT) and supply extra particulars on the ultimate anime volumes.

The brand new OVA will characteristic the returning solid and employees, together with director Hideyo Yamamoto, scriptwriter Hiroyuki Yoshino, character designer Keiichi Sano (joined by Hideki Furukawa), sound director Jin Aketagawa on the sound manufacturing studio Magic Capsule, composer Assumed Sounds, and animation studio CONNECT.

The principle story of Gakuto Mikumo‘s Strike The Blood novel sequence ended within the twenty second compiled guide quantity in August 2020.

The novels debuted in 2011 with Manyako‘s illustrations. The varsity motion fantasy story of Strike The Blood begins with Kojō Akatsuki, a boy deemed the “fourth progenitor” — the world’s strongest vampire, as soon as thought to solely exist in legend and lore. Within the Itogamijima particular zone for demons, a woman named Yukina Himeragi is entrusted with watching over the vampire and if wanted, searching him down.

Mikumo’s unique novel sequence impressed a 24-episode tv anime sequence in 2013, in addition to two OVA seasons in 2015 and 2016-2017. Crunchyroll streamed the tv anime sequence because it aired in Japan. Discotek licensed the tv anime for North American residence video. Crunchyroll is streaming the primary two OVAs, and it’ll additionally stream the third OVA.

Strike The Blood III, the third Strike The Blood OVA season, shipped in 5 installments between December 2018 and September 2019. Every launch featured two episodes, for a complete of 10 episodes. The season coated as much as quantity 17 of Mikumo’s unique sequence, in addition to the tip of the “Holy Battle” (Seisen) arc.

Strike The Blood IV, the fourth OVA sequence for the Strike The Blood franchise, debuted its first two-episode residence video launch on April 2020 after a delay. The OVA‘s second quantity is delayed from June 2020 to July 2020, because of the results of the brand new coronavirus illness (COVID-19) pandemic. The remaining 4 volumes (every with two episodes) shipped in October 2020; December 2020; on March 26, 2021; and on June 30, 2021.

The Strike The Blood: Kieta Seisō-hen (Disappearing Holy Lance Arc) particular OVA shipped in January 2020, and was the primary within the franchise to inform an unique story episode not in Mikumo’s novels.

TATE serialized a manga adaptation in Kadokawa‘s Month-to-month Comedian Dengeki Daioh journal from 2012 to 2017. Yen Press is publishing each the sunshine novel sequence and manga adaptation in North America. Ryuryū Akari‘s Strike The Blood Kochira Saikai Gakuen Chūtō-bu (Strike The Blood: This Is Saikai Academy’s Junior Excessive Division) spinoff manga additionally ran in Kadokawa‘s Dengeki Bunko Journal from October 2016 to July 2019.

Sources: Strike The Blood anime’s web site, Comedian Natalie