Animatsu & MangaUK Announce Adjustment’s To Their Release Schedule

Animatsu and Manga UK have announced, via a special post on their website, that due to an “unavoidable adjustment within the company” a large portion of their upcoming release schedule has had their release dates “re-evaluated” and changed.

Gunslinger Girl – The Complete Collection (Blu-ray / DVD Combo Pack) [Anime Classics] – REGION FREE

Gunslinger Girl – The Complete Collection

BD Region: A & B (Playable in the UK)
– Boxart states Region B Compatible

DVD Region: 1,2 & 4 (Playable in the UK)
– Boxart states Region 2 Compatible

Price: £33.70 (includes postage)

Episodes: 1 – 26 + 2 OVA (4 Blu-ray & 5 DVD’s)

Plot: The girl has a mechanical body. However, she is still an adolescent child.

Officially, the Social Welfare Agency is a government sponsored corporation that’s in the business of saving lives. In reality, it’s an agency on the fringe of technology. They give terminal patients another shot at life using cybernetic implants. This conditioning process then shapes the patient into an efficient machine for handling all of the government’s dirty work.

Having survived the brutal slaughter of her family, Henrietta awakens to her new life at the Agency with a re-built body and no memory of the past. She has been teamed with her handler Jose, who is responsible for her training and conditioning, turning her into the perfect killing machine. Henrietta strives to find her place within the Agency, doing her best to win Jose’s affection. But can Jose control her? Can he balance the needs and desires between the assassin and the developing adolescent.

Unboxing: Sword Art Online II – Parts 1 to 4 (Collectors Edition Blu-ray / DVD Combo Pack) [UK]

Throughout the past few months Anime Limited, also known as All The Anime, have been releasing Sword Art Online II in progressive manner and with all four parts now available within the UK market I thought it would be a good idea to unbox them and highlight just exactly what you will get inside.

For those unfamiliar Sword Art Online II is the sequel to Sword Art Online, which was released by Manga Entertainment UK onto Blu-ray and DVD, and sees Kirito once again within a virtual reality game trying to uncover the mysteries surrounding players dying within the game. This UK release of Sword Art Online II, which was handled via ANime Limited, saw the series released in four seperate parts each of which were available as a Collectors Edition combo pack, which is what i will be unboxing, and standard edition DVD; furthermore each Collectors Edition release not only came packaged inside a unique chipboard box but it also saw a variety of information packed neatly inside a booklet.

MVM Entertainment To Release Original Fate / Stay Night TV Series on Blu-ray

It’s the news that many Fate fans have been waiting for but MVM Entertainment have ‘secretly’ revealed, through their online store Anime-on-Line, that they will be releasing the original Fate Stay Night series on Blu-ray later this year.

That exciting news doesn’t stop there; as the template box-art for the set, which uses the same artwork used on the American ‘Complete Series’ Blu-ray release of Fate Stay Night, suggests that the 24 episodes will be spread over 3 Blu-ray Discs which suggests (or pretty much confirms) that this UK Blu-ray release will feature the improved 1080p visuals and re-made chapter points.

Blu-ray Review: Gurren Lagann – Ultimate Edition

It’s been a long time coming but the wait is finally over, as All The Amime’s Blu-ray release of Gurren Lagann – The Ultimate Edition is finally upon us; but was it worth the wait and more importantly what does it contain? Well lets find out in our Blu-ray Review of Gurren Lagann – Ultimate Edition.

Synopsis:

This is the story of a man who has yet to realize what destiny holds in store for him…

In the distant future, mankind has lived quietly and restlessly underground for hundreds of years, subject to earthquakes and cave-ins. Living in one such village are two young men: one named Simon who is shy and naive, and the other named Kamina who believes in the existence of a “surface” world above their heads.

The destiny of these two starts moving drastically when the ceiling of their village falls in, and a gigantic “Gunmen” and a beautiful girl named Yoko, wielding a superconductive rifle, come from the surface. Together, Kamina, Simon, and Yoko ride the mecha “Lagann” that Simon digs out of the ground, and fly up to the surface!

DVD Review: Patlabor – The Complete OVA Series

It’s time to step back in time as we take a look at MVM’s DVD release of Patlabor’s early days, but what exactly did we think of this DVD Release, and even more so was a Blu-ray release valid? Find out in our DVD Review of Patlabor – The OVA Series.

Synopsis:

Drunk drivers are bad, but put a drunk driver in a giant robot called a Labor and you’ve got a disaster waiting to happen. And when REAL criminals get their hands on those same giant robots, the cops need giant robots of their own just to maintain the status quo, right? That’s the logic behind the development of the Patlabor program and special Labor Crime units like Japan’s Section 2, in any case. But what logic fails to take into account is where to find police officers who’re equally conversant with both robots and the regulations? That’s where the motley crew of Section 2, Division 2 comes in!

With ridiculously perky tomboy Noa Izumi and gun-happy madman Isao Ohta as primary Labor pilots and the impossibly laidback Captain Goto in what passes for command, SV2 is ready to hit the streets with their twenty-ton feet! But will they be taking a byte out of crime or have they bitten off more than they can chew? The law of the land and the laws of robotics are about to collide!

DVD Review: RahXephon – The Complete Collection

101 Films second Anime release is RahXephon – The Complete Collection on DVD and as we mentioned in our unboxing video it features both the TV Series and Movie, but what do we think of it? Find out in our DVD Review of RahXephon – The Complete Collection.

Synopsis:

It is a new reality. For 15 years, the remnants of the human race have fought against the alien Mu and their unstoppable giant Dolem; a battle mankind seems destined to lose. But deep within the captured city of Tokyo, where time flows on a different path and mind-wiped citizens do not even know that they have been conquered, there is something that the Mu fears more than all of mankind’s weapons.

To find that secret, one young woman must penetrate the domed walls of Tokyo Jupiter and find a single young man, a young man upon whom the fate of all humanity depends… for in his heart lies the power of RahXephon, and with it all the worlds can be remade.