For unknown reasons, the Japanese production committee pulled their licenses from all Non-Asian territories, including the license held by Sentai Filmworks in North America.
The series was simulcast on The Anime Network. Sentai Filmworks had planned a home video release, but in June 2012 it was announced that the production committee for the series would be buying back the home video rights for every region outside of Asia.
Based on the sports comedy light novel series Rou Kyuu Bu! written by Sagu Aoyama and illustrated by Tinkle. ASCII Media Works published 15 novels between February 2009 to July 2015.