[Overseas] Anime News & Announcements

[Dai]

Forgot to mention this but it was so late last night that I didn't bring it up.

Discotek responded to someone's question about out of print releases, and they did say they will renew the titles as much as they can, but recommended that if a release is from 2016 or earlier that you should consider buying them sooner to play it safe.

The titles that came out on Blu-ray during that time period are as follows:

Spoiler

2012:

• Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

2014:

• Blue Submarine No. 6
• Cardcaptor Sakura the Movie [very likely will be acquired by Anime Limited]
• Unico (Fantastic Adventures / Island of Magic)

2015:

• Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade [Anime Limited released this on Blu-ray]
• Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro [Studio Canal released this on Blu-ray (but is Inferior), Released in 4K UHD years later by Discotek]
• Shin Getter Robo vs Neo Getter Robo
• Space Adventure Cobra the Movie [Released in 4K UHD years later by Discotek]
• Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust [Anime Limited released this on Blu-ray]
• Venus Wars [License expired, but Sentai re-released it on Blu-ray with a new English dub]

2016:

• Arpeggio of Blue Steel
• Black Jack: The Movie
• Getter Robo Armageddon
• Golgo 13: The Professional
• Jungle Emperor Leo
• Lupin the Third: Jigen's Gravestone [very likely will be acquired by Anime Limited after Woman Called Fujiko Mine is released]
• Lupin the Third: Voyage to Danger
• Night on the Galactic Railroad
• Samurai Pizza Cats [Dub Version, SD-BD]
• Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie
• Strike the Blood
• Tekkaman Blade II

2017:

• 5 Centimeters Per Second [Anime Limited released this on Blu-ray]
• Actually I Am...
• Barefoot Gen 1 & 2
• Captain Harlock: Arcadia Of My Youth
• Fatal Fury: The Movie
• Fist of the North Star [SD-BD]
• FREEDOM [Manga Ent. released this on Blu-ray (but is Inferior)]
• GoShogun: The Time Etranger
• Hi-SCool! Seha Girls
• Horus: Prince of the Sun
• Kaiba
• Kyousougiga
• Lupin the Third: Island of Assassins
• Magic Knight Rayearth [Anime Limited released this on Blu-ray]
• Panda Go Panda
• School Days
• Sea Prince and the Fire Child
• True Tears
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Dub Version, SD-BD]
• Yowamushi Pedal: The Movie

Thanks for the list. I already have most of the ones I want from that, but there are a few I'll need to bump up the priority list. I keep telling myself not to buy more blu-rays until I've watched the last lot, but something always sets off my FOMO sense.

 

[Yami]

The big announcement was just a better source for the transfer of an already announced release? ...Alrighty then.

 

[thedoctor2016]

AstroRes did also interest me due to its use of ML. But yes the film prints is better less exciting but better

 

[Yami]

Don't get me wrong, it's fantastic news. It's just not something that I expect from a hyped announcement, it's hardly the original cut of The Magnificent Ambersons

 

[Girls with Guns]

I would be super excited about finding 35mm masters of a series, if it was one I was even remotely interested in. Project A-ko is not one of those unfortunately, so it was pretty much an anti-climactic reveal for me. Cool story on how it was found, though!

 

[TiagoCosta]

Need to get True Tears soon, don't wanna miss out on it.

 

[Darren Skippings]

Need to get True Tears soon, don't wanna miss out on it.

Such a good series, pity Sola isn't in print, not sure if Shigofumi is still available either.

 

[NormanicGrav]

D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-DISCOTEK May 2021 line-up.

These were all announced during the panel, but here's a recap.

Anime	Content	Format	Date	Price	Audio	Notes
Grimm's Fairytale Classics Collection 1	TV: 24 eps	SD Blu-ray	25th	$49.95	English Japanese
Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~	TV: 13 eps	Blu-ray	25th	$39.95	English Japanese	Media Blasters license rescue
Magical Girl Ore	TV: 12 eps	Blu-rat	25th	$39.95	Japanese
Medabots Season 3	TV: 39 eps	SD Blu-ray	25th	$39.95	English
Neo Heroic Fantasia Arion	Film	Blu-ray	25th	$24.95	Japanese

Funimation June 2021 line-up.

Regular releases (there are no LEs solicited for this slate).

Anime	Content	Format	Date	Price	Audio	Notes
APPARE-RANMAN!	TV: 1-12	Blu-ray [Region AB]	1st​	$64.98​	English Japanese​
Black Clover Season 3 Part 4	TV: 130-141	Blu-ray/DVD [Region AB]	1st​	$54.98​	English Japanese​	Part 4 of 5 for Season 3
Shachibato! President It's Time for Battle!	TV: 1-12	Blu-ray [Region AB]	1st​	$64.98​	English Japanese​
Number24	TV: 1-12	Blu-ray [Region AB]	8th​	$64.98​	English Japanese​
Wave, Listen to Me!	TV: 1-12	Blu-ray [Region AB]	8th​	$64.98​	English Japanese​
Phantasy Star Online 2: Episode Oracle Part 2	TV: 13-25	Blu-ray [Region AB]	15th​	$64.98​	Japanese​	Subtitled only
No Guns Life Season 2	TV: 13-24	Blu-ray [Region A]	22nd​	$64.98​	English Japanese​
Smile Down the Runway	TV: 1-12	Blu-ray [Region AB]	22nd​	$64.98​	English Japanese​
A Certain Scientific Railgun T Part 2	TV: 13-25	Blu-ray/DVD [Region AB]	29th​	$64.98​	English Japanese​
Hatena Illusion	TV: 1-12	Blu-ray [Region AB]	29th​	$64.98​	English Japanese​

Re-releases:

Anime	Content	Format	Date	Price	Audio	Notes
Last Exile -Fam, The Silver Wing-	TV: 1-23	Blu-ray [Region A]	1st​	$34.98​	English Japanese​	Essentials label
Mob Psycho 100 Season 1	TV: 1-12	Blu-ray [Region AB]	1st​	$49.98​	English Japanese​	Classics label
Fruits Basket (2019) Season 1	TV: 1-25	Blu-ray [Region AB]	8th​	$69.98​	English Japanese​
One Piece Collection 26	TV: 615-641	Blu-ray/DVD [Region A]	15th​	$34.98​	English Japanese​

 

[Girls with Guns]

Nothing but Arion for me out of that entire list. Cheap month. Yay!

 

[Girls with Guns]

Need to get True Tears soon, don't wanna miss out on it.

Glad you mentioned this, I ordered a copy right after I saw your post and it just arrived yesterday. Had it in my Save for Later queue on Rightstuf for years...

Such a good series, pity Sola isn't in print, not sure if Shigofumi is still available either.

Ooo, loved Shigofumi, I have the old 2008 Sentai DVD release of that series.

 

[Dragon Slayer]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1376566907961282563

 

[Dragon Slayer]

Sentai June 2021:

Official Sentai June 2021 Slate

The official Sentai June 2021 slate is here | To Love Ru Darkness Dub | Dororo Dub | SWORDGAI Dub and more!

www.sentaifilmworks.com

 

[Gemsy-chan]

I want World Trigger and Dororo from that slate.

 

[Dai]

Crunchyroll, Viz to Release Burn the Witch, In/Spectre, Jujutsu Kaisen, More Anime on Home Video

Also: The God of High School, Tower of God // Crunchyroll and Viz Media announced on Tuesday that they will release the following five anime on home video....

www.animenewsnetwork.com

They're releasing junk like God of High School and Tower of God, but not Laid-Back Camp? Fail.

 

[Scavenger]

I hope Laid-Back Camp ends up at Discotek or Sentai. I don't trust Viz Media

I have very mixed opinions on this.

On one hand this breaks titles free from the Funimation empire, which is good for both competition locally and overseas, as this then frees up titles to be licensed by other companies here in the UK for example. On the other hand, Viz's subtitling itself is, in my opinion, worse than Funimation due to shared problem of a lack of typesetting and less legible text due to the smaller border.

There is also the major concern which is video quality, and unfortunately (excluding the titles Justin did for them) Viz don't have the best track record in this regard. First they were encoding for PC RGB levels with trash encoding, then around 2016 they were encoding in the SD colour space but their encoding was much better. Jojo Golden Wind Part 2 finally saw a respectable release from them encoded in the correct colour range and correct RGB levels (albeit not free from issues as their encoder will every so often spit out anything from an average of one to a few frames showing some blocking and worse encoding which also affects prior releases - Potential spoiler warning for second image comparison).

That brings us to now, where a month and a half after Jojo's authoring, someone (who I assume isn't Subatomic due to the disc structure/encoding setup) authored Osomatsu-san - which once again has been encoded for PC RGB levels and thus has heightened gamma. I can't really speak for the encoding of the episodes themselves as Osomatsu-san as a show is both low resolution and incredibly noisy, but the trailers on the discs looked atrocious compared to their Subatomic Digital authored counterparts which causes me a lot of worry for future releases.

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[Peachy]

I hope that means that the chances of Anime Ltd getting Kaisen are much higher, given that they have In/Spectre.

What is even up with this non physical release of Yuru Camp (& A Place further than the Universe). Is there a reason or some speculation as to why it's taking so long?

Would love a Dororo relese from @MVM

 

[NormanicGrav]

I hope that means that the chances of Anime Ltd getting Kaisen are much higher, given that they have In/Spectre.

What is even up with this non physical release of Yuru Camp (& A Place further than the Universe). Is there a reason or some speculation as to why it's taking so long?

Would love a Dororo relese from @MVM

My guess is that both of those shows are probably stuck in the backlog. I reckon Discotek is more than likely to grab them as long as the US legal stuff delays the whole Sony Crunchyroll buyout like what has happened not too long ago.

 

[Rui]

Dororo would be a good call for MVM, it has some previous traction from their live action release (IIRC?) and the anime remake was a great watch.

R

 

[Wicker]

Dororo an obvious choice for MVM, unless AL would be able to give it a CE release somehow.

 

[Dragon Slayer]

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