Sasaki and Peeps Vol.1 Blu-ray

Otherworldly fantasy and psychic battles unfold across another world and modern Japan! The acclaimed work ranked first in the tankobon and novels category of This Light Novel Is Amazing! 2022 finally received its anime adaptation in January 2024. Volume 1 arrives on Blu-ray. The KADOKAWA light novel has surpassed 300,000 copies in circulation. A corporate worker in his forties, Sasaki buys a Java sparrow as a pet, only to discover that the bird is a reincarnated sage from another world. Their meeting begins an adventure of otherworldly fantasy and psychic battles. Talented staff vividly bring to life this world that combines a wide variety of genres and character types.

Each original first pressing offered a luxurious set of bonuses for fans: an approximately 96-page newly written novel by Buncololi, a digipak with new illustrations by Kantoku and a special booklet containing a newly drawn comic by Pureji Osho, interviews and other material. Their availability is conditional, as detailed below.

Story The Java sparrow Sasaki buys at a pet shop is a famous sage reincarnated from another world. Naming the bird Peeps, Sasaki begins living with him. The sage gives him the chance to travel to another world and the power to use magic. Exhausted in body and mind by corporate life, Sasaki finds healing in a fantasy world of swords and magic. Before long, he starts bringing goods purchased in modern Japan into the other world and working as a merchant. One day, he encounters people called psychics. Though he survives a battle of supernatural abilities with magic from the other world, he is mistaken for a psychic and recruited by the Cabinet Office's Paranormal Phenomena Countermeasure Bureau. An adventure blending otherworldly fantasy with psychic battles begins, spanning another world and modern Japan!

Contents and extras Episodes 1 through 4. Regular video extras include previews for episodes 1 through 4, a commercial collection and making-of footage for the commercials. The original first-press bonuses were a newly written novel of approximately 96 pages by Buncololi, Sasaki and Peeps Side Story 1: A Story from When Sasaki Was Around Thirty and His Neighbour Was in Elementary School, a digipak with new illustrations by original character designer Kantoku, and a special booklet containing a newly drawn comic by manga artist Pureji Osho, interviews and other material. These first-press items are conditional and not guaranteed; CDJapan reports that they are no longer available.