Overseas The Discotek Media Thread

My third Discotek Media haul from Stackry for this year arrived yesterday. Photos of the sets will appear around early morning tomorrow, but I have tested the discs today.

I've also included the prologue title of the haul As Miss Beelzebub Likes in this results list. Like before, a few of these have been covered already but others I also tested for the sake of it.

To recap, there are two methods tested - traditional top-menu i.e. on PS5, and Panasonic top-menu method (pressing Stop, then Top-Menu afterwards).

Here's the results:
Anime
Disc Region / Top-Menu​
Panasonic Method​
Released​
Angel Cop (HD Remaster)
A Locked​
A Locked​
February 2022​
As Miss Beelzebub Likes It.
Top-Menu​
Success​
May 2022​
Barefoot Gen 1 & 2
A Locked​
A Locked​
December 2017​
Beelzebub
A Locked​
A Locked​
September 2022​
BoBoBo-Bo Bo-BoBo
A Locked​
Success
(Already tested by RaeDra)​
January 2020​
Crying Freeman
A Locked​
A Locked​
November 2023​
Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure
A Locked​
A Locked​
February 2024​
Goku Midnight Eye
A Locked​
A Locked​
October 2023​
Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
A Locked​
Success
(Already tested by RaeDra)​
March 2022​
Lupin the Third: Return of Pycal
A Locked​
Success
(Already tested by RaeDra)​
July 2021​
Shin Tetsujin 28
A Locked​
Success​
January 2019​
Tomorrow’s Joe 2: The Movie
A Locked​
Success​
March 2022​
Zatch Bell: 101st Devil & Attack of Mechavulcan
Region B​
Success​
March 2018​

aho-girl-1-gif.33300
 
We have six more Discotek Media releases going out of print:

AnimeSRPAudioContentReleased
Angel Cop (HD Remastered) (Steelbook Edition)
$49.95​
English
Japanese​
6 OVAs
February 2022​
Beyblade
$49.95​
English​
51 episodes
January 2019​
Beyblade G-Revolution
[SOLD OUT ON CR STORE]
$49.95​
English​
51 episodes
March 2019​
Beyblade V-Force
$49.95​
English​
52 episodes
February 2019​
Cyber City Oedo 808 (HD Remastered) (Steelbook Edition)
[SOLD OUT ON CR STORE]
$49.95​
English
Japanese​
3 OVAs
July 2022​
Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture (Steelbook Edition)
$49.95​
English
Japanese​
Film
August 2022​

Worth noting that Angel Cop, Cyber City Oedo 808 and Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture non-steelbook releases are still readily available, however the former two are the original non-HD Remastered versions (though Oedo 808 is available in the UK with this remaster). Angel Cop will probably be re-issued with the HD Remastered disc.

Beyblade franchise continues the streak of classic English edit versions taking a while to sell out and eventually discontinue (it's lasted 5 years at least).
 
Thanks for the heads up - I’ve already got the Steelbook titles but have nabbed the available Beyblade titles with an eye on the OOS one (used to love playing with those as a child.)
 
Been hoping AL or MVM will release Angel Cop over here which is why I've held out. As you've said @NormanicGrav hopefully at the very least Discotek will re-issue the standard edition with the HD remaster.

Fatal Fury fortunately has a standard release so I'll just get that eventually and Beyblade I'm fortunately not bothered about but a shame for fans who don't own it all yet.
 
It's a unfortunate lost for Beyblade, but given how there's a official Beyblade channel that hosts all the plastic gen era of Beyblade, it's not big of a lost.
Even though I mildly interested of grabbing G Revolution only at some point, I think I rather skip for that other Discotek media stuff that interest me like IPGX and Urusei Yatsura.

Although I can't find City Hunter 91 anywhere and I hope that didn't go OOP at well.
Was thinking of picking up the rest of City Hunter on payday as I did end up liking the first episodes of Season 1.
 
Last edited:
@NormanicGrav Angel Cop has also sold out on CR now. I just ordered it from Amazon. I’ll take my chances on Fatal Fury as I saw City Hunter season 1 available and grabbed that before that too goes OOP.
 
TakamakiJoker said:
I also suggest grabbing Cat's Eye now if you can, as that subjected to go OOP at some point due to being somewhat related to City Hunter.
Click to expand...
Yeah that’s a next month thing if they are still about. I went a little OTT the other week and I’m still waiting for RE: Cutie Honey, Belladonna of Sadness 4k, Crying Freeman and from Sentai, Parlabor and Locke the Superman to arrive. Plus the OG Cobra TV series arrived today too.
 
Are Discotek in trouble? It seems like their output is decreasing while their catalogue is going out of print faster than ever.
 
Lots of stuff going out of print isn't a surprise; Justin warned that Discotek's owner was wanting to clear a lot of their older titles out of the warehouse to make room for new stuff. So consider any of Discotek's titles that have been in print a few years to be possibly at risk of disappearing with little warning.

And Justin also commented on the every other month solicits; he said it was due to backlogs on the production end, which required them to change their workflow to compensate.
 
I have redesigned the release list layout on the first few posts (the DVD section hasn't been updated yet). Want to make it clearer to see whilst getting the info on there that doesn't feel squashed.

I am expecting at least one release slate update before their big Discotek Day panel at Otakon which is set for 2nd-4th August.
 
Back
Top