Bandai Announces March & April 2011 Releases - Including K-On!

Bandai has given us their March and April 2011 release schedules, and we now have them available on the store site for pre-order.

Here's what's coming:

Kurokami Part #6 DVD (BLURAY) (Eps #21-24) (English Dubbed) - Mar 22
Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya & Nyoron! Churuya-san! Part 1 DVD - Mar 22
The Girl Who leapt Through Time (BLURAY) - Apr 12
Girl Who Leapt Through Space Part #1 DVD - Apr 26
K-On! Vol #1 DVD - Apr 26
K-On! Vol #1 (BLURAY) - Apr 26

In addition to these new releases, they have also rescheduled the upcoming Code Geass box back to March:

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Complete Collection DVD Boxed Set (Anime Legends) - Feb 8 to Mar 22

A couple of comments: With the rescheduling of the Code Geass box, Bandai will have no new releases streeting for the next 2 months. The Girl Who Lept Through Time seems a strange choice for their next BD release, but we will finally be getting the Girl Who Lept Through Space, though only on DVD, and sadly, only subtitled. The Haruhi-chan & Nyoron Churuya-san! DVD's were originally going to be another one of those Bandai Store exclusives, but I suppose they found out they could not sell anywhere near enough copies just on their own store, so they are putting it out on the street to let us carry it. We'll be offering it for a lower price than them - you know, just to say thanks for their consideration. -_^

But really, who cares about all that, because we are FINALLY GETTING K-ON! We'll be offering each DVD and BD at 40% off MSRP*. That means we will barely be making any money on it, but I figure that's the best way we can help get the series into as many fans hands as possible!

UPDATE: Just FYI, I'm checking with Bandai on the 66 Minute thing. It's really hard to believe they would go with a 2 ep per disk release. I'll verify one way or the other on Monday when they get back in the office.

UPDATE 2: The folks at Bandai have just confirmed that the original playing time for K-On Vol #1 is a typo at 66 minutes. Vol #1 WILL BE 100 MINUTES, and contain eps #1-4 of the series. BD Will be Region 'A' encoded according to the producer.

*Not Eligible for Additional or Coupon Discounts



I figure most of you have probably already seen the actual OP by now anyway. ;-)

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Inside Look at Upcoming Toradora and Persona Boxes

The folks at NIS America recently sent sample boxes of their upcoming releases of Toradora and Persona to Anime reviewer Chris Beverage (why they sent them to him and not us is, well, a mystery), and he has posted a good review of them plus lots of pictures here.

NIS told us today that these should begin leaving the factory around June 16th, so we'll probably be able to start shipping them to pre-order customers during the third week of June. There are two things I wanted to mention about these before we leave today for the weekend:

1) We currently have them available for a VERY special pre-order price that will increase once they arrive, and this price will only be honored for the folks that pre-order BEFORE they hit our dock. Don't wait.

2) Because of the extra's that had to be produced, NIS has limited the number of these that are going to be made to the first pressing, so once they are gone they will be gone forever. Again, get your pre-order in NOW to ensure available and that you get our special price.

These will be the first true 'collectors' editions of an Anime release in several years, and we're very excited about these!

Toradora! Volume 1 Premium Edition

* 2 DVD disc set
* Total of 13 episodes
* Approximately 25 min/episode
* Features original Japanese voice acting
* English subtitles
* Extra content: OP/ ED Clean versions, and more!
* Premium Box with bonus item: 30+ page, full color, hardcover art book (approx. 10" x 7"), including interviews with the original Japanese voice actors/actresses.
* NISA Exclusive Double Sided Poster (Illustration of Toradora! on one side and Persona on the other side) the size of the poster will be 20"X13".


PERSONA -trinity soul- Volume 1 Premium Edition

* 2 DVD disc set
* Total of 13 episodes
* Approximately 25 min/episode
* Features original Japanese voice acting
* English subtitles
* Premium box with bonus item: 40 pages, full color, hardcover art book (approx. 10" x 7"), including an original short picture book from the main story, "A Whale's Feather".
* NISA Exclusive Double Sided Poster (Illustration of Persona on one side and Toradora! on the other side) the size of the poster will be 20"X13".

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Another Lady Innocent

Steven Den Beste has recently discovered just how beautiful the art is in the 'H' title Another Lady Innocent:


"Urushihara Satoshi's drawing style is unmistakable. No one draws gorgeous women better than him"

"The art and animation in this are fantastic. It looks better than any broadcast show. I swear, it must have had a huge budget, which is really rare when it comes to hentai. I can only assume that Urushihara's reputation was the reason the production company was willing to put so much money into it."
Steven has lots of nice frame grabs over on his blog (NSFW warning). It's actually a 'nice' H title too, one of those rare ones that you and Mrs. can actually 'safely' watch together. :-) Don't expect much from the plot (it's really a 40 minute short exhibition of fine art rather than any sort of coherent story line), but if you are a fan of Urushihara's art work and have let this titles slip under your radar for the last few years, you should really think about picking up a copy.

I think we should look back into bringing some of Urushihara's art collections back into stock if possible. In the past, they have always sold out almost as fast as we could get them in, but we do currently have one still in stock here for those of you who would like to sample his other works.

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