Product details follow, in order of release.
Title: EBITEN COMPLETE COLLECTION
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 275 min.
Street Date: 4/1/2014
Format: DVD
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $49.98
SYNOPSIS:
Take one group of rabid fan girls with tenuous grips on reality, toss
out all rules of proper social behavior, mix them together in a basement
with more twisted anime parodies and allusions than you can shake a
schtick at, and what do you get? Well, besides a recipe for disaster,
if borderline delusional Kyoko Todayama is in what passes for charge,
you get the Asstronomy Club, where mayhem rules
and the wall between the real world and total fantasy shatters at least
once every five minutes! And as if things weren't wild enough, let's
throw in a "boys love" manga fanatic who always seems to end up in her
underwear, a maid on a secret mission, a ruthless
arch enemy whose goal is to have the club disbanded, and a CAT as the
faculty adviser! And then there's Itsuki, who inexplicably still thinks
this is a serious astronomy club. To be fair, some of the members DO
seem to be robots/aliens and/or from outer
space. One thing's for certain though: the Student Council will most
definitely NOT approve of what happens when the Insane-O-Meter redlines
and freaky fan girls run wild in EBITEN!
Title: EBITEN COMPLETE COLLECTION BLU-RAY
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 275 min.
Street Date: 4/1/2014
Format: BD
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $59.98
SYNOPSIS:
Take one group of rabid fan girls with tenuous grips on reality, toss
out all rules of proper social behavior, mix them together in a basement
with more twisted anime parodies and allusions than you can shake a
schtick at, and what do you get? Well, besides a recipe for disaster,
if borderline delusional Kyoko Todayama is in what passes for charge,
you get the Asstronomy Club, where mayhem rules
and the wall between the real world and total fantasy shatters at least
once every five minutes! And as if things weren't wild enough, let's
throw in a "boys love" manga fanatic who always seems to end up in her
underwear, a maid on a secret mission, a ruthless
arch enemy whose goal is to have the club disbanded, and a CAT as the
faculty adviser! And then there's Itsuki, who inexplicably still thinks
this is a serious astronomy club. To be fair, some of the members DO
seem to be robots/aliens and/or from outer
space. One thing's for certain though: the Student Council will most
definitely NOT approve of what happens when the Insane-O-Meter redlines
and freaky fan girls run wild in EBITEN!
Title: HAPPINESS COMPLETE COLLECTION
Published by: Maiden Japan
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 325 min.
Street Date: 4/1/2014
Format: DVD
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $49.98
SYNOPSIS:
Yuma and Haruhi are both students at Mizuhosaka Academy, but since the
classes for magic users and non-magic users are kept completely
separate,
the odds of their ever getting to know each other are impossibly
small. But then a gas explosion on Valentine's Day renders the Magic
section unusable, leaving the school with no choice except to make
everything co-ed. As a result, mage in training Haruhi
and her best friend Anri find themselves transferred into a normal
class with Yuma and his best friends Hachisuke and Jun. Although how
"normal" they are is debatable given that Hachi might be the world's
biggest letch and Jun prefers to wear the girl's school
uniform rather than the one for the guys. And there's something about
Yuma as well, something that Haruhi notices almost immediately. But is
Yuma aware of it yet? Whatever the answer, the most magical year of
classes for both of them is about to begin,
and the most important lessons learned won't be on conjuring or
geometry. Gather up your schoolbooks, calculators and magic wands, as a
boy and a girl discover the real secret to HAPPINESS!
Title: FAMILIAR OF ZERO SEASON 1
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 325 min.
Street Date: 4/8/2014
Format: DVD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $49.98
SYNOPSIS:
Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière's name is so long and her
spell-casting skills are so poor that everyone at the Tristain Academy
of Magic just calls her "Louise the Zero". Louise's humiliation only
increases during an important second year test, where the other students
summon up dragons and other mythological creatures as their familiars,
and she inexplicably summons Hiraga Saito,
a totally normal teenager from Tokyo. Now she's stuck with him and
Saito's stuck with the lousy life of being a familiar. Except, maybe
there's more going on than meets the eye, because Saito's not prepared
to accept the social inequities that Louise and
other aristocrats consider the status quo, and he may not be quite as
normal as everyone thinks. And the reason Louise is so bad at magic
might just be that she hasn't figured out what she's good at yet. In
fact, they might even have the makings of a great
team. If they can learn to stand each other first, that is! Will
familiarity breed contempt? Will combining two negatives result in a
positive? The answer will be spelled out, enchantment by enchantment,
in FAMILIAR OF ZERO!
Title: FAMILIAR OF ZERO SEASON 1 BLU-RAY
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 325 min.
Street Date: 4/8/2014
Format: BD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $59.98
SYNOPSIS:
Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière's name is so long and her
spell-casting skills are so poor that everyone at the Tristain Academy
of Magic just calls her "Louise the Zero". Louise's humiliation only
increases during an important second year test, where the other students
summon up dragons and other mythological creatures as their familiars,
and she inexplicably summons Hiraga Saito,
a totally normal teenager from Tokyo. Now she's stuck with him and
Saito's stuck with the lousy life of being a familiar. Except, maybe
there's more going on than meets the eye, because Saito's not prepared
to accept the social inequities that Louise and
other aristocrats consider the status quo, and he may not be quite as
normal as everyone thinks. And the reason Louise is so bad at magic
might just be that she hasn't figured out what she's good at yet. In
fact, they might even have the makings of a great
team. If they can learn to stand each other first, that is! Will
familiarity breed contempt? Will combining two negatives result in a
positive? The answer will be spelled out, enchantment by enchantment,
in FAMILIAR OF ZERO!
Title: FROM THE NEW WORLD COLLECTION 1
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 325 min.
Street Date: 4/15/2014
Format: DVD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $59.98
SYNOPSIS:
Born into a world a thousand years in our future, Saki and her friends
Satoru, Maria, Mamoru and Shun have lived their entire lives in what
seems to be a perfect utopia. Not only is their small idyllic
community overflowing with clean rushing water and abundant green
foliage, but almost all technology has been rendered irrelevant by the
magical power of "Juryoku," the psychic ability to materialize
anything one desires. But when Saki discovers a long lost artifact
from the past, the façade of their world is shattered and the cracks
that split the foundation of their reality threaten to swallow them
whole! Faced with a bloody secret history of how their
world really came to be and thrust into a nightmarish new paradigm,
Saki and her companions are confronted with dangers they never knew
existed and a series of choices that may change the fate of every
intelligent creature on the planet - human and otherwise!
Yusuke Kishi's award winning novel becomes an epic new animated series
as five young teens fight to survive the shocking revelations that come
FROM THE NEW WORLD!
Title: FROM THE NEW WORLD COLLECTION 1 BLU-RAY
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 325 min.
Street Date: 4/15/2014
Format: BD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $69.98
SYNOPSIS:
Born into a world a thousand years in our future, Saki and her friends
Satoru, Maria, Mamoru and Shun have lived their entire lives in what
seems to be a perfect utopia. Not only is their small idyllic
community overflowing with clean rushing water and abundant green
foliage, but almost all technology has been rendered irrelevant by the
magical power of "Juryoku," the psychic ability to materialize
anything one desires. But when Saki discovers a long lost artifact
from the past, the façade of their world is shattered and the cracks
that split the foundation of their reality threaten to swallow them
whole! Faced with a bloody secret history of how their
world really came to be and thrust into a nightmarish new paradigm,
Saki and her companions are confronted with dangers they never knew
existed and a series of choices that may change the fate of every
intelligent creature on the planet - human and otherwise!
Yusuke Kishi's award winning novel becomes an epic new animated series
as five young teens fight to survive the shocking revelations that come
FROM THE NEW WORLD!
Title: HIDAMARI SKETCH X 365 BLU-RAY
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 400 min.
Street Date: 4/22/2014
Format: BD
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $59.98
SYNOPSIS:
Yuno, Miyako, Hiro, Sae and the rest of the denizens of the most
fascinating piece of surreal estate in Japan are back. And they're
still
spurning the "A happens after B, happens after C" pattern so prevalent
in the rest of the world. In fact, instead of just taking place after
Yuno's first year at Yamabuki High, this season of Hidamari Sketch
continues on both sides, around the edges and in-between.
Filling in the details in an ever-expanding collage that's both
avant-garde and slice of life! And if the format's not completely
unexpected, we guarantee that some of the things that you never knew
about before WILL be in Hidamari Sketch X 365 - The Complete
Collection!
Title: LITTLE BUSTERS! COLLECTION 2
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 325 min.
Street Date: 4/22/2014
Format: DVD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $59.98
SYNOPSIS:
As if receiving enigmatic messages delivered by the cats wasn’t odd
enough, Riki Naoe’s world continues to grow even stranger. Following
the shocking twin revelations of Midori’s missing shadow and the fact
that he’s the only one who seems to remember Mio, he’s determined to
learn the nature of the connection between them. Meanwhile, some of the
secret’s Haruka is keeping about her family
are revealed with potentially devastating consequences, and Riki finds
himself pressed into a completely unexpected situation when a sleepover
held by Rin and the other female members of the team goes out of
control. However, as overwhelming as all that seems,
it’s merely the preamble to the drama that’s unleashed when Kudrayaka
learns that her cosmonaut mother is going to be sent into space! And in
between it all, the Little Buster’s first ballgame is approaching, even
though they still haven’t found a ninth player.
Covert missions are run, long simmering personal rivalries come to a
boil and events that are literally out of this world will take an entire
country by storm in the spectacular second collection of LITTLE
BUSTERS!
Title: LITTLE BUSTERS! COLLECTION 2 BLU-RAY
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 325 min.
Street Date: 4/22/2014
Format: BD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $69.98
SYNOPSIS:
As if receiving enigmatic messages delivered by the cats wasn’t odd
enough, Riki Naoe’s world continues to grow even stranger. Following
the shocking twin revelations of Midori’s missing shadow and the fact
that he’s the only one who seems to remember Mio, he’s determined to
learn the nature of the connection between them. Meanwhile, some of the
secret’s Haruka is keeping about her family
are revealed with potentially devastating consequences, and Riki finds
himself pressed into a completely unexpected situation when a sleepover
held by Rin and the other female members of the team goes out of
control. However, as overwhelming as all that seems,
it’s merely the preamble to the drama that’s unleashed when Kudrayaka
learns that her cosmonaut mother is going to be sent into space! And in
between it all, the Little Buster’s first ballgame is approaching, even
though they still haven’t found a ninth player.
Covert missions are run, long simmering personal rivalries come to a
boil and events that are literally out of this world will take an entire
country by storm in the spectacular second collection of LITTLE
BUSTERS!
Title: CUTICLE DETECTIVE INABA COMPLETE COLLECTION
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 300 min.
Street Date: 4/29/2014
Format: DVD
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $49.98
SYNOPSIS:
In a world where half-human, half-animal chimeras live and work
alongside normal people, there are sure to be a few bad apples in the
bunch.
Unfortunately, criminals that are only half-human means there are often
non-human clues that leave the police stumped. That's where lone wolf
detective Hiroshi Inaba comes in. He's literally part wolf and has the
amazing ability to extract critical information
just by examining or tasting a sample of someone's hair! Of course,
that ability has also resulted in Inaba having a little bit of a hair
fetish, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for his two assistants.
Well, at least the cross-dressing one isn't complaining
much. And it's nothing compared to the strange tastes of Inaba's
nemesis, the omnivorous, half-goat crime boss Don Valentino, who has an
appetite for green legal tender instead of tender young greens! Inaba's
sworn to cut Valentino out of the criminal flock
before the Don can wolf down more ill-gotten dough, but he's going to
have to chew his way through a lot of evidence to get his goat. Can
sheer dogged detective work put the baaaaad guys behind bars? Find out
in CUTICLE DETECTIVE INABA!
Title: CUTICLE DETECTIVE INABA COMPLETE COLLECTION BLU-RAY
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 300 min.
Street Date: 4/29/2014
Format: BD
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $59.98
SYNOPSIS:
In a world where half-human, half-animal chimeras live and work
alongside normal people, there are sure to be a few bad apples in the
bunch.
Unfortunately, criminals that are only half-human means there are often
non-human clues that leave the police stumped. That's where lone wolf
detective Hiroshi Inaba comes in. He's literally part wolf and has the
amazing ability to extract critical information
just by examining or tasting a sample of someone's hair! Of course,
that ability has also resulted in Inaba having a little bit of a hair
fetish, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for his two assistants.
Well, at least the cross-dressing one isn't complaining
much. And it's nothing compared to the strange tastes of Inaba's
nemesis, the omnivorous, half-goat crime boss Don Valentino, who has an
appetite for green legal tender instead of tender young greens! Inaba's
sworn to cut Valentino out of the criminal flock
before the Don can wolf down more ill-gotten dough, but he's going to
have to chew his way through a lot of evidence to get his goat. Can
sheer dogged detective work put the baaaaad guys behind bars? Find out
in CUTICLE DETECTIVE INABA!
