#AnimEigo Licenses Osamu Dezaki’s Nobody’s Boy Remi for Blu-ray Release in 2025

AnimEigo announced that it has licensed the Nobody’s Boy Remi TV anime series and will release it on HD Blu-ray disc sometime in 2025. The single release will not include an English dub, but will include a French language dub.

Nobody’s Boy Remi will be the first title released under AnimeEigo’s newly established “Ruined Childhood” product line. The series aired in Japan from October 2, 1977 to October 1, 1978 and is available to watch in French dub on the Anime on TMS YouTube channel. 

Osamu Dezaki (Ashita no Joe, Aim for the Ace!) directed the 51-episode anime series, with the animation production handled by TMS Entertainment (then known as Tokyo Movie Shinsha) and Madhouse. Other main staff involved in the series included Akio Sugino (Cobra The Animation) as character designer, Shichiro Kobayashi (Angel’s Egg) as art director, and Takeo Watanabe (Candy Candy) as music composer.

A film version of the series with the same director and studio was also released in 1980. 

The anime itself is based on the 1878 novel Sans Famille by French writer Hector Malot. 

RetroCrush is also currently streaming Nobody’s Boy Remi and describes the premise as: 

In a small French village of Chavanon, an eight-year-old boy named Remi lived happily with his family even though they were very poor. One day, his father, Jerome, reveals to Remi that he was found abandoned as a baby and is not his real son.

Source: MediaOCD Official Website, AnimEigo Official Twitter